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Giving Financial Gifts to Family

There was an interesting Question and Answer on Slate the other day about helping family members who perhaps aren’t as financially stable.  The asker is doing well, financially speaking, but some of her siblings are not, and some really struggle.  She wanted to know how she should best help them out – according to their [...]

Christmas Slump

It’s getting a bit obvious that retailers are worried about low consumer spending for this year’s holiday season.  I know that Christmas always seems to start early, but I think this is the first year I saw Christmas decorations appearing in the store as early as August.  That’s even early for Halloween items, in my [...]

Money Mistakes Reviewed

A recent issue of Good Housekeeping reviewed Common Money Mistakes. I ended up skimming the article, mainly because I felt like these were tips I had read again and again, and obviously I was already following all these tips. But then I decided to take a closer look.

Mistake #1. My Money is [...]

The value of intangibles

It has been a slightly rough week, to put things simply. Earlier this week, I found out that a close family member was told that her cancer had returned, after at least 15 years of remission, and this time, she’s not going to beat it. She could have two years, she could have [...]