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When Your Car Hits the End of the Road

I have the same car I had when I met my husband, an SUV that I bought used. We have been married for 12 years. The SUV is now almost 15 years old. While it isn’t our primary car, the birth of a third child necessitated a third car seat which would not fit the backseat of the SUV, it is still used quite a bit as a second car. Unfortunately, it is getting to the point when we may have to give it up. According to the magazine, Consumer Reports, you can save thousands of dollars when you keep … Continue reading →

When Life Gives You Lemons …

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A father in Texas was diagnosed with cancer. His six year old son decided to raise some money to help pay for his father’s medical bills. He opened a lemonade stand. Amazingly, he managed to raise more than $10,000 in one day. The little boy turned lemons into lemonade, and lemonade into money. Randy Cox lives in Gladewater, Texas, with his wife, Tonya Cooley Cox. They have three sons: Drew is six years old, Jake is four years old, and Micah is only seven months old. Randy, who is 30 years old, was recently diagnosed with seminoma. Seminoma is a … Continue reading →

Thrifty Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is often regarded as an expensive hobby. With so many different products and tools on the market, you could easily drop thousands of dollars to fund a scrapbooking addiction. But, what if you don’t have a lot of money to spend on crafts? Just because you are working on a tight budget, doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on all of the excitement that comes with making elaborate memory albums. In addition to finding scrapbook materials on sale, there are a number of every day items that can be repurposed and added to memory books, including beads, … Continue reading →

Is Your Degree Worth The Debt?

The idea behind student loans is that you borrow money to earn a college or graduate degree that will in turn enable you to earn so much money that you will be able to pay back the enormous amount of money that you borrowed to acquire the degree. While this is a good idea in theory, many people who have student loan debt are now feeling like their degree is not worth the debt that they acquired to get it. I can tell you that this is not just a feeling, it is a cold, hard fact that is supported … Continue reading →

How Much Should Your Wedding Cost?

I’ve heard of wedding dresses costing upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, cakes that must have been frosted with diamond crystals for how much they cost, and flowers that would have fed a small nation for a week, had the price tag gone to rice rather than roses. I have gaped at celebrity fan magazines telling of this celebrity’s wedding that cost a million dollars, or that politician’s daughter who had a fleet of matching limos for her wedding party. We see these stories every day, and we wonder what it would be like to afford to throw a … Continue reading →

Money Can Make You a Mommy

They say money can’t buy happiness, but evidently it can buy you motherhood. Shortly after Libby blogged about Celine Dion’s latest pregnancy announcement, I commented about the mega-singing star’s sixth try at conceiving a child. Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil have a 9-year-old son who was conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF). However, the couple wanted to add to their family, so for the past year, Dion has undergone a series of IVF attempts. According to the songstress, the sixth time was the charm. After an arduous journey and multiple failed attempts, Dion is now pregnant with twins, and … Continue reading →

Do You Miss That Extra Paycheck Since Splitting Up?

If you miss having a second income since your divorce or feel you may have permanently messed up your children with the breakup, read on and see why this was truly the best decision you could have made. The truth is that many single parents live on one paycheck, myself included, but it’s not easy to leave financial security behind and venture off on your own. As a life and relationship coach, I’ve helped thousands of women over the years to get out of unhealthy relationships, raise their confidence, and find more fulfilling lives and loves. When a woman is … Continue reading →

Do You Need a Dehumidifier?

Call us lucky. While the Georgia Floods eroded a foot or two of soil at the banks of my backyard creek, we only got a few inches of water in the house at the back door in the basement. A small puddle of water got inside during the rains. We were able to take care of the issue with a mop. Still, the basement seemed to take on a wet, musty smell that lingered a bit too long for out tastes. The last thing we wanted twas to have to deal with mold. We purchased a dehumidifier and it smells … Continue reading →

Another Reason Not to Put Your Kid in Daycare

For some parents there is simply no other choice. They either place their child in daycare or live on the streets. Still, opponents of outsourced childcare insist that the amount of money parents spend paying for someone else to raise their children basically negates the income they are generating from working outside their home. My take is that it is an extremely personal decision; one that takes a huge amount of sacrifice regardless of whether you give up your chosen career and stay home with your child or you remain at your job and pay strangers to watch your kid. … Continue reading →

April Fools: Three Things You Thought You Knew About Adoption

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There are some things that “everybody knows” about adoption. This “knowledge” is so well-known, of course, that facts and first-person testimonies, even the evidence of one’s own eyes, apparently aren’t effective. One couple was showing off their new baby, whom they had adopted at birth here in the U.S., at at a large family-and-friends picnic last summer. When the new parents told the story of their recent adoption, another guest asserted “Well-Known Fact Number One” confidently: “That’s impossible. There are no babies to adopt in the United States.” April Fools! The truth: In the U.S., in-country adoptions outnumbered international adoptions … Continue reading →