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Employed, but Earning Less
My dear friend recently went back to work after being unemployed for a time. She is grateful for the job, but this work earns her much less per hour than before. In fact, it offers both fewer hours and smaller per-hour pay.
Thus with a diminished earning power, she is understandably finding it hard to [...]
Being Cheap Can Help the Planet
My parents were pioneers in the green movement. They weren’t necessarily trying to save the environment, but they grew up during the Great Depression when every penny counted. It turns out their thrifty habits are gentle on the environment too.
Many of these habits work today to both save money and help my family reduce our [...]
Is Saving Money Making You Feel Deprived?
My husband hit the nail on the head the other day when he said, “It’s no wonder people have trouble saving money. Look at all the stores where you can spend it!”
We were driving through a shopping district in our city when he made that pronouncement. Shops lined both side of the street, sometimes several [...]
Is Inconvenience Holding You Back from Saving Money?
It is almost comical the trouble I am running into saving money lately.
For instance, I was shopping at a favorite second-hand store when I found a great purse. I was so excited to find something that was the right size, reasonably priced and in fairly good shape that I quickly paid for it and moved [...]
Your Kids Can be Financially Savvy
We have all struggled with our finances at one time or another, and I worry how my children’s financial lives will proceed. I want to spare them the trials and tribulations of my experience, but I wonder is that really the right thing to do?
I want my children to be financially savvy, so I [...]
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