Archive for the ‘Personal Finance’ Category
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Suze Orman needed to upgrade her leather jacket to a flak jacket tonight in a personal finance scrap match with personal finance bloggers over her new self-branded prepaid debit card. The Approved Card is her own personally-branded prepaid debit card with what appears to be a decent package of tools ...
Posted in Commentary, Personal Finance, Roundups, Saving | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
(And no, the answer is not to give $50/week allowance to a six year old!)
Last week our minivan's transmission bit the dust. (Thankfully it bit the dust in our driveway.) Over the next couple of days my wife and I discussed what to do: whether to fix our car, whether ...
Posted in Kids and money, Personal Finance | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
My grandfather was an extremely frugal person. (As I suppose many people who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s were.) One of his frugal habits I remember was that he used to walk downtown to pay his bills in full by check, on the day they were due. ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Most everyone knows that regular brushing and flossing helps to prevent cavities and more expensive restorations. Ounce of prevention and all that. There are so many benefits to having a healthy set of teeth that it's difficult to argue against brushing.
But here's a different question. Do you know how to ...
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