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Back to Basics: How to Build Your Best Budget Yet

For the majority of working income earners in America, there is a trusty pattern we have been practicing since grade school. It goes something like this: Monday: First day back at work from the weekend Tuesday: When you actually start getting work done for your week, aka: second Monday Wednesday: Hump day Thursday: the weekend

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How to See if You Qualify to Receive a Storm Shelter

In the aftermath of the devastating storms that swept across Oklahoma in May and June of 2013, Oklahomans began to demand easier access to storm shelters. We had grown tired of losing innocent lives to tornadoes and floods. Oklahomans everywhere began making requests that we find a way to put a storm shelter in every

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A Great Example of a “Phishing” Scam

One of our CCCSOK.org NFCC Certified Counselors recently received the following “phishy” e-mail. The subject on the e-mail was: Unusual activity in your American Express account. If you ever get an e-mail like this please do NOT click on any of the links. They are trying to steal your information. Here are a few problems

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Scored Credit Report and Monitoring Service Available at No Cost

CCCSOK.org has received access to several thousand guest memberships in Experian’s FreeCreditScore.com. Through an initiative of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC.org) known as Sharpen Your Financial Focus, consumers may register for one free year of service from FreeCreditScore.com. Membership enables you to access your credit report and Experian credit score as well calculators

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De-Stressing the Holiday Season

Thank you to Chrystal Hedges from Devon Energy for suggesting we put this information together! There are many sources of stress this time of year. Here are a few: My expectations. Your expectations, Extended family’s expectations. What I think your expectations are. What I think their expectations are. Crowds. Traffic. Sugar crashes. Politics. and… Money.

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Free Downloadable Christmas Planning Tool from CCCSOK.org

  Stay on track and keep the stress at bay this year with a good list! There is no question that the holiday season is a time for unusual expenses – dinners, travel, gifts, and hot cocoa stops to name a few.   CCCSOK.org has developed a handy downloadable and printable spreadsheet to help you get your

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