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Save Gas, Shop Online
Running errands costs us exponentially more than it used to. I always hated wasting time shopping and going from store to store but now it doesn’t seem to make much sense at all. In the past I would balk at the cost of shipping and handling to order online but lately even those sites that…
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The American Dream: Paying your mortgage off early.
Dotti Berry, along with her partner, Robynne Sapp, own Harbinger Enterprises, a real estate investment group. In the guest post below, she provides food for thought about how one might choose to navigate their way through life, mortgages, and debt. As a homeowner, I understand there are a variety of options for paying my mortgage…
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Gen Y Finances: What Accounts Are You Setting Up and Where
One of the things my mother always told me about savings is that your money should be working for you. This means that if you have a sizable account balance, it shouldn’t just be sitting in a checking account earning a tenth of a percent interest. Even if you have the FDIC maximum balance, you’re…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Rethinking Meat – Part 2
This is my fourth post in our series about stretching your food dollar. Perhaps now more than ever, adopting a vegetarian diet (or at least abstaining from meat once or twice a week) is more attractive than ever. In last week’s post I talked about the effect that higher corn prices have had on the…
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How to save money on tickets: Max Deale dishes out advice in Sold Out… So What!
‘œWhat Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the World Series.’ ‘“ Dave Barry Max Deale is a ticket hound. As a self-described Ticket Jedi, he knows the ins and…
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Regulators Should Bring Back Glass-Steagall
And there on the TV is the umpteenth financial ‘˜talking head’ stating the grim obvious, such as ‘œwe are going to be well into next year’ before the housing market settles down, and banks re-start to lend. This is the financial economic guru from one of the biggest investment banks in the world. He’s just…
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WAHMs, WAHDs, and the Costs and Benefits of Working at Home with Kids: Making the Most of Your Work Time
My name is Jennifer, and I’m a WAHM. No, that’s not some new addition to the ever-expanding LGBTQ alphabet soup of queer identities; it stands for work-at-home mom or dad. I’m part of a growing trend; an increasing number of folks are WAHMs or WAHDs. Between the lame-ola economy and the wonders of wireless technology,…
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Grocery Shopping: The Importance of Checking the Price Per Unit
One of my pet peeves while shopping is to see the packaging get smaller or more air put into the bag or the item in a box will be smaller when the box itself stays the same size. Of course the prices don’t get smaller, they either stay the same or go up in price.…
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Monthly Home Office Expenses: Is It Feasible to Use Cell Phone Only and Lose the Landline Phone?
I am pretty diligent about reviewing my monthly expenses periodically to see where and what I can trim. Recently, I got back into doing an overhaul of expenses in light of the increased cost of every little thing and as part of the Week 1 exercises in the Business Rescue teleseminar series I’ve been attending.…
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