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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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5 Things I Learned From Selling My House

by Elizabeth May 6, 2013

If this were Aesop’s Fables, where every story is given an alternate title, this post would be named: 5 Things I Learned From Selling My House ~or~ What not to do when buying a house It’s now been almost seven years since my husband and I first entered the housing market; we were the epitome [...]

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Sold! How We Got An Offer On Our House In Less Than 2 Weeks

by Elizabeth April 29, 2013

Remember earlier this month when I told you our house was back on the market? I told you we were being aggressive with our asking price… and yesterday, it paid off. That’s right – after less than two weeks on the market, we got an offer on our house and are officially under contract. How [...]

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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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