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October 2013

  • How to Track Your Net Worth


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    Johnny and I are big proponents of keeping an itemized budget — in other words, tracking every cent. There’s no better way to hold ourselves accountable than having to answer to every single purchase… even that delicious Value Size Vanilla Frosty. We have to spend purposefully because our budget forces…

  • Baby Bucks

    Money-Saving Baby Hacks


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    In the Baby Bucks series, we babble about babies and money and sleep deprivation and cuteness overload. In that order. It seems like just yesterday that Johnny and I brought our baby girl home from the hospital. I’d read every baby book I could get my hands on (this was…

  • It's the End of the World

    Everything Wrong in Our World in 30 Seconds


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    There will come a time. It might be in 60 years or maybe just 20 years. But that time will come. Your child/grandchild/great-grandchild will crack open their sixth grade History textbook and flip to the back. America’s Downfall, the chapter heading will read. They’ll thumb through the digitally-enhanced pages as you…

  • Reader Mailbag

    Reader Mailbag: Credit Card Rewards


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    Guess what happens when we get questions from readers? We answer them! So if you have your own question, click here and shoot it off to us. We’ll do our best to get back to you and give you an answer that isn’t totally incorrect. Depending on who you ask, credit cards…