There’s a small percentage of the population who flies on a regular basis for work or pleasure, but most of us only ever get on a plane to go on a vacation, and maybe very rarely for a business trip. It’s a fairly uncommon occurrence, so it’s no surprise that most people don’t know all […]

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Two years ago today, I was pouring over my financial records, feeling the pressure of credit card debt and student loans piling ever higher. I was spending more than I made, I didn’t even know how to write let alone follow a monthly budget. I had $7,000 in student loans and close to another $1000 […]

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Would you like to be able to work less? How about buy a new car? Maybe get a nicer house? We all have things that we’d like to get, but we just don’t have the money to do so. Fortunately, everyone can become wealthy if they continually do smart things with money for a long […]

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Gasoline prices have recently hit an all time high. The other day I had to fill up and had the privilege of paying $3.39 per gallon, and that was for the 10% ethanol blend which is subsidized! The regular gasoline cost a whopping $3.49. In fact, right now only two states have average gasoline prices […]

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A lot of hear some basic tenets of personal finance when we’re young, and tend to accept them as fact without ever really thinking about the merits of the statements being made. At this time, we’re too young to know the difference, and we hear these things from adults, so we accept that they are […]

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When you’re in college, or are just a young adult on your own, chances are you aren’t taking the time to cook and make some decent food. It’s hard to get in the habit of doing so when you’re the only person you are cooking for. Instead we revert to fast food, frozen dinners, and […]

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Up until a couple of hundred years ago, eating out really wasn’t much of an option. There were pubs for drinking, but not much of anything for restaurants. Now there’s a café on seemingly ever street corner in every major metropolitan area. In most cases the food is just as good if not better than […]

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Whenever you have to go to the doctor, it seems like you almost always get a prescription for something or another! Thanks to modern medicine, there’s a pill or injection for just about every sort of infection or virus that we can get, with the exception of a few of the major things that we […]

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I’m sure by now you’ve noticed a severe shortage of posts on Getting Green in the last few weeks. I’ve had a series of nasty final projects, final tests, and have moved for the summer. On top of that, my wedding has regrettably been called off. I’ll spare you the details, but sufficely to say, […]

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Welcome to the May 9th edition of the Cavalcade of risk. We’ve had a lot of great entries this week. It’s been pretty crazy with finals, so I haven’t been able to post much, but that should improve in the next couple of weeks quite a bit.
Here are this week’s entries:
Managing Risk in a Home […]

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