Month: April 2010
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Is Your Estate Planned…
Most of us get busy doing the day to day things and never take the time to stop and prepare for when we are gone. I know, we do not want to think of that and, besides, we are all too young. I wish it was that easy to do, but life happens everyday. While…
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Spring Cleaning
Many of us are spending time “spring cleaning”. We’ve cleaned out the garage, the closets and the storage room. Hours have been spent cleaning out the flowerbeds and sprucing up the appearance of our homes – inside and out. But, how much time have we given to our finances? What have we done to clean…
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Trying To Survive Rising Fuel Prices
It seems as if it will never stop. Just this week I was driving down the road and there were three different gas stations at one intersection. One had fuel for $3.23, another for $3.25 and the final station was $3.35. That is up from $3.17 just 10 days earlier. This is crazy! It used…
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Taxes: Refunds and Rebates
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…oh wait, its tax time not Christmas. Taxes, again! Some of us will spend hours getting papers together, completing our forms and submitting the paperwork to the IRS. Others, those who are more organized, are getting things readied and off to the “tax preparer”. All of us, in…
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Is Your Debt Dropping Too?
Good news on CNNMoney.com yesterday. Consumer debt is on its way down! Really. According to the report, this is the 6th consecutive month that the total amount of debt has decreased. This month the amount exceeded expectations and was down $21.6 billion dollars! That is great news, but we have a long way to go. …
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Book Review – Fearless
Today marks the release of Max Lucado’s new book Fearless. Out of all the books I have read from Max Lucado, I do believe that this is one of his best and is quite possible the most timely. This book is one I would recommend to everyone who struggles with fear. That is a very…