*This post is brought to you by a compensated campaign in collaboration with Latina Bloggers Connect and Wells Fargo. All thoughts and content are my own.     When I was growing up, I was taught from an early age the importance of saving money and being financially independent.  In my grandmother's house, I was encouraged to put a portion of my allowance away in my savings account every week.  As a matter of fact, I can still remember when we took the trip to the bank to open the account and my grandmother kept reminding me that this was going to be where my money would be held for safekeeping from then on.     After my parents sent for me to come to the United States from Spain once they got settled in, my father continued my financial education right where my grandmother had left off.  He always had a glass jar on top of his dresser and he would empty all of the change in his pockets into that jar every morning when he got home from working nights.  There were many times when … [Read more...]