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Preparing Your Child for the “Real World”

November 23, 2013 | #Make Money

We’re reading more and more about the escalating costs of college and how unprepared young adults are to manage their own money. We’re not judging. We were financial nightmares ourselves. In hindsight, we feel we weren’t given sufficient tools to be prepared. Blame that on upbringing or education or whatever.

Personal finance education isn’t coming from school anytime soon. What’s a parent to do? What if you treat your high school-aged child as a roommate? Ha!? What? Why would you do that?

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4 Ways to Subsidize College Education

November 21, 2013 | #Eliminate Debt

College tuition has skyrocketed over last couple of decades. While median family income since 2002 has risen only 1.9%, the average annual growth for state college tuition has risen about 8%. For the 2013-2014 academic year, the annual increase dropped to 2.9%. This positive anomaly is good for college students, but it is still higher than the median family income rise by 1%.

Learn how you can reduce expenses for college.

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Time is Money & Money is Time, But Not Always Yours

November 15, 2013 | #Live Fabulously

Many of us are familiar with the saying “time is money.” What we’ve been taught is that wasting our time is, in essence, wasting our earning potential. Likewise, many of us have been taught that if we do something ourselves, without paying someone else, we save money. This isn’t always true.

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Are You Making a Costly W-4 Mistake?

November 11, 2013 | #Make Money

Tax
refund, those are nice words, aren’t they? We all love getting money,
especially at tax time. No one likes finishing their taxes and finding they owe
Uncle Sam money they don’t have. Are you making a costly mistake when it comes
to getting a tax refund?

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Save Money When Buying Fruit

November 8, 2013 | #Live Fabulously

Save Money on What You Buy Americans are reported to throw away about forty percent of food annually. That’s not far off from throwing away half of our food. As we mentioned last week, some of this may be due to confusion when differentiating between what is safe and unsafe to eat. If you buy …

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