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The holidays are over and what may have been a lot of fun in buying gifts for others may not seem like a great thing after your credit card bill arrives in the mail this January. What’s worse is most people have big plans for the New Year in terms of achieving their financial goals, but those plans can be delayed with new credit card debt. This post will help you learn from your mistake and take immediate action in dealing with your new debt.
Don’t beat yourself up, but do learn from your mistake
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Welcome to the Wise Bread weekly tweet chat! This week's topic: Last minute holiday hacks. Need a last minute gift idea? Did your dear husband's whole family show up unannounced? Can't get the Christmas lights up in time? Come take a breather with us and share your best tips on how to deal with the most stressful season of the year. We'll be giving away $10 Amazon Gift Cards to lucky participants! Remember to join us weekly from 4pm - 4:45 pm CST each Thursday for lively conversation ...
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Earlier in the yr, I occurred to appear over my spending budget for laear and was shocked to see how a lot I’d invested on presents for birthdays and Xmas. Having made a large effort to tighten my belt in 2010, I knew that I just couldn’t justify spending the exact same amount again, but at the exact same time, I do not want to appear like a miser when I’m handing over the presents. My compromise has been to appear into making my personal presents in the hope that the additional effort will conserve me some money and nonetheless…
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This is the seventh entry in a fourteen part series discussing the time management classic Getting Things Done by David Allen. New entries in this series will appear on Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings through July 16.
So far, we’ve talked about two of the five major steps for getting things done: collecting all of the stuff you need to do and processing that stuff down. Today, the focus is on organizing – or where the stuff goes when you’re processing it.
Allen suggests that there are seven specific destinations for stuff when we’re processing it. Although this looks complicated,…
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Over Xmas, my husband’s mother and father came to remain with us for two weeks. We have an extra bed room, but no bed for it. Although the air mattress is fine for a few of nights, we didn’t want my in-laws to have to sleep on it for two weeks. We’re not quite prepared to purchase another bed, so we made the decision to lease one. My husband called the lease-to-personal locations here in town, and we found one prepared to lease us a new, by no means-been-slept-in bed for a month (they wouldn’t do it for two weeks).…
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A lot of you will be looking to buy the important men in your life something special, but you don’t want to break the bank doing it. Gift giving is an important symbol of affection, but I don’t like when people go overboard without the means to do it. Unless you have a bunch of money to blow, be creative and keep your budget under $100 for your closest friends and family. Men are typically tough to shop…
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