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Understanding Your Credit Scores

Looking back on my financial education from my parents, the first thing I wish they had taught me was what exactly credit scores were and how to manage them upon receiving my first credit card. Sadly, too...

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Saving on Energy: The Portland Green Microgym

I believe if you tally up all of the time I have spent working out in a gym, I would have probably spent a good number of my years running on a treadmill. When I heard that Portland, Oregon's new "power gym"...

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Best Travel Search Engines on the Web

One of the questions I had asked myself while creating another hub was where on earth were the cheapest travel deals on the Internet located? I knew several websites that could be of use - but which ones...

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Vacations on a Budget: Cheapest Tourism Spots

I haven't traveled many places in my lifetime (unless you count going to Disney World with your family four or five times during your formative years as being well-traveled). I always had a strong desire to...

0 comments    travel cruises budget travel
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Where to Find the Cheapest Textbooks Online

College is notorious for stretching the boundaries of parental cash flow to the max. The ridiculous cost of food (a small carton of eggs topping a whopping six dollars!) and dorm prices that rival year-long...

2 comments    education textbooks
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Children’s Addiction to Video Games: 15 Ways to Break the Habit

My brother is THE biggest gamer: period. I'll never forget how wide-eyed he got that Christmas roughly 14 years ago when he opened the package to his first Nintendo. It's all been downhill with hours upon...

4 comments    children video games wii fit
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Where to find Affordable Individual Health Insurance

I would be hard pressed to find a friend as devoted as my friend Lily. Despite how insignificant or great each hardship or hurdle was that needed to be overcome, she was there for me in more ways than one....

6 comments    insurance health care hmo
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The Psychology of Spending

I was quite certain it was starring back at me. Yes, it was; its return gaze taunting and mocking, urging me to give in to my addiction. I ran my fingers over its perfect hem and imagined how wonderful the...

6 comments    budget psychology credit crisis
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All About Hybrid Cars: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  Last weekend I was driving my car for the first time in weeks (I usually garage it being in the city it is completely unnecessary to use much fuel), and I came upon a gas station advertising $3.97 a...

7 comments    economy gas prices epa
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How and When to Pay Your Bills

There was a time when I would pile all of my paper statements in hoards on my kitchen counter and when the "inspiration hit me," I would sporadically spew them all over my living room floor and sort by what...

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