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84Needs Vs. Wants 101
In America, sadly, the lost art of saving and money management have become victims of our current thorny monetary crisis and we have no one to blame, but ourselves. The solution begins not just in determining...
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81Survivor Marathon
Reading the headlines and listening to the news of late, it seems like hard financial times, also mean that otherwise good people sometimes resort to desperate actions, that they might not have considered...
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70This New Frontier
Having always known that I was a pioneer woman, it came as quite a shock to finally realize we are all on a online spaceship, rocketing to a new frontier here on hubpages. I thought my pioneer days were over....
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71The Only Sure Road Out
By now many of us are feeling a little overwhelmed with more and more news -- of job layoffs, business closings, foreclosures, and the like. With well over 2.6 million people on the road of unemployment, none...
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74The Wicker Basket Baby
On November 30th, 1933, just as the owner of a gas station and grocery store was closing up, he was robbed at gun point, by a young couple who had no Bonnie and Clyde talents. The bungling young man's...
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79Are We Smarter Than A Chicken?
It occurs to me that we are a lot like birds these days. Fowls have a lot to worry about when it comes to someone robbing the hen house, and so do humans when it comes to someone robbing their nest eggs. ...
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80Turning The Tax Assessor Away At The Gate
He walks and talks and thinks at a slow deliberate West Virginia stroll at all times, except when he's mad. It takes a lot to make him mad, and the sight of a property tax assessor is one of those things that...
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83Dream Your Unemployment Troubles Away
Seems like lately, that a lot of talk has been flying around, comparing the economic events of today, to the troubled decade of the 1930s. That got me to thinking about the forms of escapism many turned to...
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79What's In Your Mattress?
Dueling déjà vu visions of Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess and the Pea, and a past Sponge Bob Square Pant's The Lost Mattress episode, came to mind when the man in front of me in the bank, was...
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73The Line To Cash In
The factual details that define life, are often in the small stuff, the things that don't make the headlines, or nightly news. It's the daily verifiable realities that deserve our real attention and...
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