I know a young couple who recently have the privilege of finding their first home. They saved up a down payment and then went to visit a real estate agent. The agent showed them all sorts of beautiful homes, but none of them were good enough for them. So they kept looking and found the [...]

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Imagine that you and your spouse are all set to go on the trip of your dreams. You’re taking a 7 day cruise to the Bahamas and visiting some of the most beautiful ports of call on this side of the equator, no work, no cell phones, no interruptions, just pure relaxation. You take the [...]

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How many of you flinch when the pharmacist tells you the cost of your medication? I know I do. Prescription costs seem to be rising exponentially year after year. But, by thinking and planning ahead, you can [...]

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The following post was written by Steve from BripBlap.com, a blog about business, personal growth, and personal finance. Consider reading another one of his great articles: “7 things to consider before you buy stuff.“

With the hottest part of the summer finally behind us, camping (or at least spending the day out and about in national [...]

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Whenever I travel back to my folks place, I try to throw away a few things here and there from my childhood that I no longer have absolutely any use for. I was going through my dresser and one of the drawers contained a folder with a whole bunch of documents, some relating to bank [...]

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Everyone should be putting away some money here and there for retirement. Social Security probably won’t be around when many of us get to retirement, so we’re left to fend for ourselves. In order to get started investing, you’re going to need a brokerage account, preferably inside an IRA or Roth IRA if the money [...]

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You might think that people have a pretty good handle on their money and know where all of their assets are at, but this is not the case. It’s very common for consumers to have account balance or other unpaid receipts from businesses and state governments and they’ll just never collect it. This happens very [...]

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For whatever reason, many Americans are terrible procrastinators when it comes to filing their taxes. They wait until the last possible moment to begin doing them, and then rush to the post office to get there before the doors close at 5:00 PM on April 1th to send in their tax return. Filing one’s taxes [...]

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Technology has this amazing tendency to get a lot better and a lot cheaper over time, thanks for free market competition and our great minds thinking of new and innovative ways to make things happen. For example, computers used to take up entire floors of buildings and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now [...]

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The typical personal computer contains a lot of stuff that you simply would not want in a landfill. They almost always contain quite a bit of plastic which will never biodegrade, steel, and a number of heavy metals which definitely do not belong in the landfill, or more importantly the water supply. So when you [...]

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