Get Financially Fit! | Do you know your financial "GPA?"

Do you know your financial "GPA?" Tips for managing money from Latacia Greeley, Office Supervisor at WESTconsin Credit Union's Eau Claire office.

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Do you know your financial "GPA?" Tips for managing money from Latacia Greeley of WESTconsin Credit Union
Posted by Queen Of The Castle on Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Get Financially Fit! | Spring Cleaning

With spring just over a month away and temperatures starting to warm up, it is a great time to think about spring cleaning. Traditionally, spring cleaning entails dusting off cobwebs, flipping your mattress and getting rid of clothes you haven't worn in years. This time of year is also the perfect time to spring clean your finances! Mint.com shares with us How to Spring Clean Your Finances: A Visual Guide to Getting Your Financial House in Order.

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Get Financially Fit! with WESTconsin Returns Tomorrow!

The New Year is a time to set new goals and how you plan to achieve them. Many choose the goal to weight loss or some other health-related goal. These are great goals, but don't forget your financial health! Get Financially Fit! with WESTconsin will return tomorrow, January 1, 2016. Keep an eye on our social media and follow #WESTconsinFinanciallyFit for financial tips and tricks of all sorts. Here's to a healthy and prosperous 2016!

NEW RICHMOND | Welcome to Mad City Money!

Students at New Richmond High School will soon take part in Mad City Money—a simulation to help students learn healthy financial habits and prepare for their future: http://ow.ly/UxlRE

Making the Most of your Finances

Source: Queen of the Castle Magazine | March 2015

Making the Most of your Finances written by Latacia Greeley

 

Teaching Your Child Money Habits for Life

Financial responsibility goes beyond the porcelain pig.

By Kimberly Castro July 30, 2010 | 12:00 a.m. EDT

For most adults, the first brush with money management came in the form of a porcelain pig. A nickel here or a dollar there for every chore completed or good deed. Financial responsibility, for the most part, stopped with the piggy bank. Many of the Echo Boomer generation—those born between the 1970s and early 1990s—agree that learning how to spend, save, and invest wisely just wasn't a part of life's lessons growing up. "I wish I understood the value and attributes of money at a young age," says Christopher Rogers, a 33-year-old, New York native and associate director at a financial services firm. "Although I grew up around a successful family, no one instilled the value of money in me until I began to do it myself, and fairly recently, too."

Free Tax Preparation Services Offered Locally For Those in Need

RIVER FALLS, WI— WESTconsin Credit Union will again host the UW-River Falls Student Accounting Society in partnership with the group’s low-income tax assistance program. Families and individuals with annual incomes lower than $25,000 will be able to benefit from free assistance preparing tax returns. This service is not for students and does not include electronic filing.

Services will take place at the credit union’s River Falls office, located at 1207 North Main Street, from 5:30–8:30 p.m. on the following dates:

• Thursday, February 19
• Thursday, February 26
• Thursday, March 5
• Thursday, March 12 

Accommodations and technical support are provided by WESTconsin Credit Union. For more information about this service offered by the UW-River Ralls Student Accounting Society, please contact Steve Dewald, UW-River Falls College of Business and Economics, at (715) 425-0620.

New Year's Resolutions

There’s something about the new year that brings out the child in all of us. There’s the excitement of being on the threshold of something new, a fresh beginning, another chance to get it right. This is going to be the year. The year I give up smoking. The year I get myself organized. The year to put an end to all those bad habits and start some new good ones. The year I’m going to get my finances in order.