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  • Stretch Your Food Dollar: What To Do With Zucchini

    Summer’s officially here. Aside from seasonal fruit, summer means it’s zucchini season. And if you live in a community where people grow their own gardens, you’re probably up to your eyeballs in homegrown zucchini. Or perhaps you keep seeing it for ridiculously low prices at the supermarket. Either way, what do you do with this…

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    Serena

  • Spending money on professional baby portraits

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    I have seven nieces back in Ohio and their mothers were all religious about documenting their young lives through professional photographs. You know those ‘œWatch Me Grow’ packages that parents purchase through Olan Mills or JCPenney. Apparently, everyone spends money on this in the Midwest and then they’re used as décor items. Believe you me;…

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    Nina

  • My Financial Implosion: Celebrating During Crisis

    ‘œCelebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover’ ‘“ Unknown Although we have been surviving my wife’s recent period of unemployment followed by several financial emergencies, the challenge has been made more difficult by the fact that we’ve…

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    Alex

  • How Do You Know if You’re Saving Money at a Warehouse Club?

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    A couple of month’s ago we made a trip out to Sam’s Club at the suggestion of some friends who claim to save a lot of money shopping there. We made a thorough (and exhausting) examination of the items offered to see if we could save on things that we regularly buy. As you know,…

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    Carol

  • Retailer Hide And Seek: Fostering Impulse Purchases

    But does it occasionally backfire? Retailer Hide and Seek is a nice way of describing how merchants have a tendency to constantly re-arrange their stores layouts or move things… maybe even from one department to another that seems to have no relation to the product in question. (Will someone please give me the rationale for…

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    Roland

  • Sustainable energy: If Uncle Sam went to a financial planner…

    Today is the first in a series of posts that I plan to write on sustainable energy. What, you may ask, does finding a sustainable source of energy have to do with financial planning? I believe there is no greater threat to our long-term planning — both individually and as a nation — than finding…

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    Helen

  • Legalize Gay, Or: So You Think You’re Illegal?

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    American Apparel has launched a new t-shirt. It comes in a range of colors, including teal and pink, and has the words “Legalize Gay” emblazoned in white across the upper torso area. Below this are the words, “Repeal Prop 8.” The company’s website includes this promo material: “In the fall of 2008, Proposition 8 passed…

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    Yasmin

  • Perpetual probation in the service industry

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    For all you college students out there, this post is for you… The wife is a nurse and her husband is a mechanic operating his own successful shop. Together they have three children, one of which is a nineteen-year-old daughter named ‘œJulie.’ Julie began her first year at a local college in September 2008. Her…

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    Lana

  • Price of Going Home: How much will you spend to visit family?

    We just returned home from visiting my family in Ohio over the long holiday weekend. I moved away seventeen years ago and have always spent the money to go back at least once a year. For the last seven, I’ve held a job where I earn a lot of frequent flier miles, so we typically…

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    Nina

  • Where Are We on ENDA?

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    Guest blogger Dr. Jillian Weiss has a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Law, Policy & Society. Currently Associate Professor of Law and Society at Ramapo College of New Jersey, she has conducted research involving hundreds of companies and public agencies that have adopted “gender identity” policies. She publishes a popular blog on the subject of…

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    Serena