Cash Spending in May Saved Me Money!

This past month I’ve working on cutting back expenses in two areas – gasoline spending and eating out. For the gas money, I’ve been running a contest to see who can get the best gas mileage of their cars. It’s encouraged me to look at my...

Do You Balance Your Checkbook?

A long time friend of mine brought up something I hadn’t considered with banking – how balancing one’s checkbook has become a lost art and how it’s costing people a ton of money with bank fees. For example when she worked at a bank there were a...

5 Ways That Your Bank Can Help You

Good Morning Green Panda Readers.  Today we are discussing all of the things that your bank can do for you and all of the things that your bank can help you with.  Very often people dread going to their bank just as much as they dread going to the dentist.  Many...

Barriers That Prevent us From Saving Money

Saving Money Today: Just a Dream? How many times have you and your friends mentioned that some day in the near future you’ll get your finances in order, you just need to get a better job? We all have some hang ups with money. Some worse than others. However do...

Start Building Your Banking Relationship

A relationship with our bank can be one of the most important relationships that we have in our life.  The key to a successful banking relationship is to start young, be loyal to your bank, and always try to deal with the same personal banker.  The relationship that...