Category: Saving Money
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Not Just Surviving, Lets Thrive!
Many of you have decided that this is the year you are going to break away. You have survived over the last couple of years when everyone was telling you that we were all on the verge of financial collapse. This year you have decided to make a difference. Can I suggest that you need…
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Are Gift Cards Part of Your Christmas Giving?
When I have people referring paying clients to me, I reward each one of them a gift card for their referral. Unless I know of a specific “desire”, I will typically give that person r family a Visa or MasterCard gift card (not to be confused with a credit card!!). For many of you this…
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Don’t Use The Grocery Store As A Restaurant
Going grocery shopping has definitely changed through the years. In the last few years it has changed to where you can actually purchase prepared meals that you can take home, heat up, and eat. Wow – convenience. Picking up a prepared meal every once in a while will most likely not break you financially. However,…
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Prepared, Not Paranoid…
Recently, I spent some time working with a client and we were talking about building an emergency fund. That fund, sometimes known as a rainy day fund, is in place to help us get through troubling times and survive. Those troubling times come under many variations. A job loss, loss of a family member, a…
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An Apple A Day…
You have heard the phrase that “an apple a day, keeps the doctor away” or something like that. Most of us are not real keen on the idea of going to the doctor (some I have seen live for those times) and will do anything to avoid the poking, prodding, shots and lectures that our…
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More FREE Software!
I meet clients all the time who need to have software tools like the Microsoft Office Suite, but they simply can not afford the package. Spreadsheets, word processor, presentation software – they all are needed from time to time, but the cost to purchase is so high. Until now. Openoffice is a direct competitor to…