Should You Buy That Gift?

Need some help? Take a look at the flowchart. Mint.com did their best to explore the key questions that surround choosing gifts and hope it at least helps your decision-making process a bit easier. If anything, at least remember the message on the very top. Can’t afford it? Then don’t buy it. Happy holidays!

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Putting The "Gold" In Your Golden Years

When you’re in your 20s, saving for retirement is possibly the most boring subject on the planet. Start young, and you could retire a millionaire by saving just several thousand dollars a year. Start late in life, and you could wave hello to the senior special at Denny’s some 50 years down the road. In this infographic, mint.com've mapped out the significance of starting to save for retirement as early as possible, along with a simple how-to guide on the main retirement-saving vehicles at your disposal.

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Nutritional Tricks for the Developing World

Proper diet and nutrition are key to children's well-being, keeping them healthy and supporting cognitive development. A diet without nutrients like iron or folic acid can have serious effects. But in the developing world, the correct nutrients aren't always in children's diets. Adding those nutrients to the available food—even to foods in which they don't naturally occur—can be a huge boost to public health. It's a lesson we learned in the United States long ago, and one we need to apply to the rest of the world.

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DIY Guide to Successful Linkbait Infographic

As most of you already know, links are the currency of the search engines. The more high quality, relevant links you can point at your site, the better your site will rank. The following infographic takes you step by step through the process for creating linkbait, with some helpful tips on how you can create a piece of content that spreads virally online and meets your linkbuilding goals.

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In Graphics: What Are Dividends?

To make studying the fundamentals of investing fun, this infographic explaining basic concepts Dividends.

Dividends aren’t that difficult to understand: they’re a part of the earnings of a company that is paid out to shareholders. Shareholders love them because, unlike a stock’s price, dividends provide a more stable income stream. But as with anything in the investing word, they’re neither 100% guaranteed, nor that simple.

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Flying Under The Radar: Low Cost Airlines' Hidden Costs

Many travelers choose low-cost budget airlines with the hopes of saving at least some of their hard-earned dollars. Often, however, they land on an unpleasant surprise: fees and more fees, from charges for checked. In all, once you add up the extra costs of budget airfare, you may be surprised at the scarcity of your actual savings.

In this infographic, we give you a side-by-side comparison of the most common fees charged by U.S. low-cost airlines and their European counterparts.

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Small Scale (energy) Harvesting

A small collection of objects that analyses the possibility of collecting energy from everyday actions using developed alternative technologies applied in simple, uncommon, rhetorical ways.

This super tall and creative infographic made by Francesco Zorzi product / graphic designer based in Milan, Italy. You can see more of his work from here.

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