Category: Money
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The GREAT Coupon Experiment – Week 5 – THE END!
The GREAT Coupon Experiment aims to solve a mystery as old as the Sunday insert itself: Is coupon cutting really a feasible way for people with lives and dogs and families to save money? My mother would say, “yes”; I would say, “I don’t know, that’s why I’m doing this experiment.”
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Avoid Money Mistakes
I just finished reading Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich by Lois Frankel, PhD. In it, she sites “75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money.” Really, anyone can commit these errors, however, she asserts that women are more at risk due to some of their common predispositions towards money.
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The GREAT Coupon Experiment – Week 1
The GREAT Coupon Experiment aims to solve a mystery as old as the Sunday insert itself: Is coupon cutting really a feasible way for people with lives and dogs and families to save money? My mother would say, “yes”; I would say, “I don’t know, that’s why I’m doing this experiment.”
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Oh, you’ll pay! Interest, that is.
Doesn’t it seem like the word ‘interest’, along with most of the good curse words, has lost most of its scariness? I’m not talking in terms of, “how interesting;” unless Hannibal Lecter is saying it, that’s not that scary. I’m talking in, “you’ll have to pay me back with interest,” kind of terms (Oooo, did…
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5 Painful Ways to Save Money
It’s easy to start cutting back on those not-so-fun expenses like car insurance, your dental plan, and septic tank maintenance. Do you have what it takes to cut where it hurts (metaphorically speaking, of course)? Or are you just a sissy?
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6 Childish Lessons in Finance
I spent this past week in Home Sweet Colorado with family, including my 5 nieces and nephews, all of whom are under the age of 4. A few meltdowns, a few dirty diapers, a few scrapped knees later, I’ve come away with some financial lessons that all children know; even if they don’t know it.