You’ve done many things to pare down expenses for your young family. You bike to work, clip coupons, cook more meals at home, installed low-flow shower heads and dual flush toilets in the bathrooms, and decided to forego your daily latte from the local Starbucks. While these have saved your family some money, you’re still looking for something else to reduce in order to put a huge chuck of money back into the budget. Well, perhaps the answer can be found on your flat screen television and the 3000 cable channels you no longer watch.… Continue Reading
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Money and Relationships: Some Advice to Keep in Mind
Say the words “money” and “relationships” in the same sentence, and you’re bound to get varying degrees of responses, ranging from a mild “ugh” to a stream of expletives. No doubt about it. Disagreements about money are a major source of upset for many relationships, but they don’t have to be. If you’ve found that money problems have creeped into your relationship, you may want to keep the following advice in mind.… Continue Reading
The Cost of Being Sick
Being sick sucks. For some reason or another, my immune system has done a poor job of fighting of illnesses lately. Luckily, it’s not been anything major, but it has been persistent. I’ve had to take two sick days off in the past week and haven’t had much time to get things done. It has… Continue Reading