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Know Your Worth – Is Your Salary Comparable?

by Marie May 23, 2013

The economy is finally tipping upward and you may be thinking that now is the time to gain back lost salary ground. Perhaps your company cut salaries in 2009 (mine did). Perhaps you just haven’t gotten a raise, but have taken on a lot more responsibility. Productivity is way up, meaning that you are doing [...]

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Three Ways to Save on Memorial Day Travel

by Marie May 16, 2013

Road trips! I love them.  Memorial Day is usually the nation’s first warm weather holiday and lots of folks hit the road.  Here are 3 tips to help you shave a bit off the cost of that trip. Save on gasoline. You can shave your costs on gasoline by doing a few simple things: Accelerate [...]

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Benefits of the Family Dinner

by Marie May 9, 2013

Eating out was the exception when I was growing up – at least in my neighborhood in the 1950′s. For one thing, there weren’t many affordable and convenient restaurant choices. Fast food hadn’t come into mainstream America yet and the local cafeteria just wasn’t all that close or exciting. One of the few times we [...]

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Is a Million Dollars Still a Lot of Money?

by Marie May 2, 2013

Around the blogoshpere, I’ve been seeing comments that it isn’t all that exceptional to have a million dollar net worth. After all, they say, anyone putting money away in their 401K should end up a millionaire. In the future, there will be a lot more millionaires, they claim. Well, no one can really know the [...]

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How to Deal with the High Cost of College

by Marie April 26, 2013

Last weekend we had our annual family meeting. Our first order of business each year is to go around the table to talk about our concerns, plans and goals. This year our 39 year old son and his wife brought up their concern over college costs. We have kind of a tradition in our family [...]

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