Save money, avoid financial mistakes

It's that time of year again.

Year-end financial planning can save money and help you avoid repeating the mistakes you made in 2006.

Among the suggestions from Deb Pankow, North Dakota State University Extension Service family economics specialist:

- If you itemize your tax deductions, consider bunching two years of property taxes in the same calendar year.

- If you have a flexible spending account at work, check to see if money earmarked for this calendar year hasn't been spent.

For investors in the stock market, there's still time to lock in capital gain gains or losses, said Tim Graveline, Wells Fargo personal client services regional manager in Fargo.

For more on this story, see tomorrow's Forum.