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Make Life Easier: My Three Money Hacks
A good hack is all about efficiency: hacking a task might accomplish it better, but mostly it’s about making things happen faster and less painfully. Personal finance is full of simple, slow-and-steady tenets to make you secure, stable and maybe even rich, like spend less than you earn and pay yourself first. They require discipline,…
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Massage: Good Investment or Frivolous Luxury?
When I told my aunt that I’m going to school for massage therapy, she was elated. “I get massages every other week,” she said, “and have been for years. I consider it absolutely necessary to keep me sane.” She runs her own business doing outpatient drug and alcohol counseling. There’s a lot of stress involved,…
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Tax Tidbit #8: Benefits of Electronic Filing (e-file)
This week’s Tax Tidbit is about electronic filing, or e-filing. There are many reasons and benefits to filing electronically. A Google search will pull hundreds of sites singing the praises of this tax filing alternative. Here are the need-to-know basics: 1. E-filed returns usually contain fewer mistakes. Using tax preparation software greatly reduces errors. They…
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Expired Bread: Dough Going to Waste
I was in a store recently, before dawn, to pick up some groceries and walked past the bakery. I stopped and back tracked to watch what was happening. An employee was looking at different packaged bread then tossing a few here and there into a cart. The cart was pretty well full already and didn’t…
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Ten Money Questions for Bronson Page and Sam Page
Bronson and Sam Page are young, handsome and in love. They’re living the Hollywood dream with their writing, acting and entrepreneurial pursuits. Bronson is a screenwriter, art director and keeper of the well-written and designed blog, LovesickBilly.com. Sam is the stud behind Sam Page Fitness where he operates three private training studios in Southern California.…
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Sleeping With Money: 6 Tips for the Partner of a Business Traveler
There’s plenty of information about making business travel better. You can even find ways to bring your partner along as Paula mentioned, or ways to tack on vacation time for you and your sweetheart to enjoy as Nina pointed out. But in a two-income household, one partner usually has other obligations that keep him or…
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Why Are Rebates So Much Work?
While we all know that rebates are simply worked into the overall equation of making a sale, when I buy something that has a rebate it feels like “found money”. It is exciting because by the time you actually receive your rebate 4-6 weeks after submitting it (or longer) you’ve usually already paid for whatever…
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Tipping Etiquette: Why Do We Tip?
We’ve all found ourselves in situations where we were unsure of what to tip or whether it was proper to do so at all. While a number of establishments are beginning to eschew tips in favor included gratuity, an even greater number of new ‘œfast casual’ restaurant concepts are emerging that leave us with uncertain…
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The Frugal Daytrip: When Ecology Means Economy
Last week, I took a daytrip to Boston to meet with a great new client. It’s a freelance computer programmer’s dream gig: reliable work, little to no project management overhead, coworkers I genuinely like and trust. Plus, I get to telecommute most of the time, with an occasional on-site visit to a city I really…
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