How To: Simplify your finances

Vice President of Financial Planning Rande Spiegelman offers 7 guidelines for reducing personal finance clutter and simplifying your money life. Most of these tips involve consolidating your accounts - credit cards, retirement accounts and mutual funds - but there's also a nugget on information overload:

Access to lots of information doesn't always lead to wise decision making. In fact, following the day-to-day noise too closely can be bad for your financial health if your goals are measured in years and decades. Be discerning -- seek out sources you find truly informative, reliable and worthy of your attention, then tune out the rest of the clatter.

How do you simplify your dollars and cents? Let us know in the comments.
Simplyfing Your Financial Life [Dumb Little Man]


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