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Do you review your paystub?

When you get paid every week, do you look at your paystub?  Do you even get a paystub?  If you’re like most people, your paycheck is probably direct deposited, but there should be a paystub somewhere.  Mine’s available online, and sometimes also gets mailed to me (I’m not sure why that is, since I’m fine [...]

Spring Cleaning

I have been going through what I go through every spring.  Extreme dislike of every piece of weather-appropriate clothing that I own.  I’m not sure why this happens, but I do it every year.  It could be that since my office is like a refridgerator, I end up wearing cardigans all the time over my [...]

Cancel your cable?

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of people talk about how they plan to cancel their cable tv.  Not just the movie channels, but all of the channels.  No tv at all.

These people aren’t planning to stop watching, of course.  There’s Netflix for movies and you can find a lot of tv shows online for [...]

Is it worth the time?

Yesterday, at the grocery store, I had a coupon for a free item that the self-checkout wouldn’t accept.  I couldn’t track down a store employee to override the system for me, so I finished my checkout and took my coupon to the customer service counter.

Of course, because the service is so great at this particular [...]

Weekend Links

Just a few links to tide you over this weekend.  I realized there were a few things I had bookmarked last month with the intent of sharing them and then neglected to share them at all.  Whoops!

10 Questions about College Savings Plans
How to Make the Most of the Latest Tax Cut
Before an Economic Crisis Hits [...]