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Your Retirement Income Plan: Do-It-Yourself or Hire a Professional?

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Retirement Income Plan QuestionsDavid Bakke is a financial contributor for Money Crashers Personal Finance. He writes about retirement planning, frugal living tips, paying off debt, and achieving financial success. A retirement income plan is different from saving for retirement, which is a necessary…
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Grocery Couponing Class with Savings Nation

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Grocery Couponing Classes with Savings NationSavings Nation Workshops Grocery Coupon Classes Gain a better understanding of how to shop with coupons using strategic couponing and *menu planning techniques and achieve savings of 50% or more. *Wholesome, healthy meals! Coming to a town near you!  …
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Learn Tax Strategy with Tax Insight

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Learn Tax Strategy with Tax InsightUnderstanding Your Personal Tax Situation In your lifetime you will likely spend more money on taxes than on anything else. However, if you are like most people, you really don’t know how to control and minimize that expense. It doesn’t…
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Is it Time to Downsize Your Family Home?

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Downsize your family homeWhen Downsizing Your Family Home Makes Sense The average American family home was more than twice as big in 2006 as it was in the 1950’s. In 2006, the average house was about 2,349 square feet and families expected to…
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An ISA to Save Money for Your Children’s Future

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Hardly a day goes by without some news story telling us how hard it is for young people these days: youth unemployment is up, young people are struggling to own a home and so on. For the parents amongst us,…
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Approved MasterCard Created by Suze Orman?

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I recently spent some time reading financial news and articles on the web about The Approved Card by Suze Orman. What I found was a great deal of criticism, some of it deserved, but much of it based on a…
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7 Signs You May Need a Financial Spanking

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Being young and single without a care about budgeting, or retirement planning is acceptable – to a certain degree. Priorities are skewed and responsibilities are less. However, being a mom with children, it’s down right careless. Yes, it’s unfortunate financial…
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Giving the Gift of Moderation

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How to Ring in the Holidays by Reigning in Gift-Giving Expenses Well, the turkey has been digested, Central Park’s tree is glowing LED-bulb bright, and the “days until Christmas” can be counted in hours. That can mean only one thing:…
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Saving Money, Pennies at a Time: Calculating Price per Ounce

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As the price of your grocery bill goes up and your budget is most likely decreasing, it is important to trim down costs on your weekly shopping trip anyway you can. Calculating the price per ounce or price per diaper…
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Do You Live Within Your Means?

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Living within your means can be a broad, elusive statement. Some might assume that since they pay all their bills on time that they’re living within their means. Others might consider being on target because they have good credit and…
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Non-Profit Sites Helping You with Your Finances

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There are many organizations that dish out TONS of financial education for free. All the tools, savings advice and services can help you build a solid financial foundation. Here are several sites I recommend and would encourage you to dig…
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