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By Linsey Knerl
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best of Personal Finance roundup. Today, we tell you the best stuff not to buy in bulk, how to make a stellar breakfast pizza, and how health reform will affect you in 2010.
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Best Stuff NOT to Buy in Bulk — Beware the allure of savings when dealing with this list of products. You may not be getting your money’s worth! MainStreet
How Health Reform Will Affect Consumers in 2010 — It’s a long bill, but these 700 words can go a long way to helping explain the new changes!…
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By Linsey Knerl
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best of Personal Finance roundup. Today, we give you some killer tips for power naps, the lowdown on rechargeable batteries, and 10 uses for wine corks!
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How I Mastered the Power Nap — I LOVE power naps (provided I can do it efficiently). These tips are sure to make the experience worthwhile and headache-free! Lifehacker
Rechargeable Batteries Test — Several top-brand rechargeables were put to the test, to see which ones did the best! See the results (as well as how they were tested), in this revealing article! Tom’s Guide…
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Sallie Mae, normally known for their federal and private student loans, is entering the savings account area with a high yield savings account currently offering 1.35% APY with no monthly fees and no minimums. It’s your standard online bank offering with a pretty standard savings account rates. In scanning their list of offerings, the only thing that stands out is their 10% bonus for Upromise earnings, which can be substantial if you’re a big user of Upromise.
Why Sallie Mae?
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with an explanation of why Sallie Mae has started to offer…
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By Linsey Knerl
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best of Personal Finance roundup. Today, we give you the skills to turn cheap steak into a dreamy dinner, 10 tips for making a family room top-notch, and what to do if you owe more taxes than you expected.
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How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steak into Gucci “Prime” Steak — This technique is awesome, and likely to save some big dollars down the road! See how it’s done, and fear cheap cuts no more! Steamy Kitchen
The Room that Craigslist and Yard Sales Built — Before you write off Craigslist…
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If your New Year’s resolution included some sort of financial goal, odds are you’ve struggled to keep up with it already. While most people know they should keep some sort of budget, and many genuinely try to, most run into the reality of it all: tracking all those receipts and logging each purchase takes a huge amount of time. Even for those who started with the best intentions, most soon fall behind. That’s why a growing number of people are turning…
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Regardless of your age, position in life, or your financial goals, there are a few things that we all need to learn about personal finance. Once you have the basics down, everything else can just flow naturally. These tips are the strong foundation upon which you can build your financial future. It is never too late to learn about personal finance, and these money making tips can dramatically impact the way that you view your money.
1. Anyone can save money, regardless of how much they make.
Many of us get trapped into thinking that saving is only for…
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Being a newlywed can be an exciting period in two people’s lives. Young or old, those who have decided to take the plunge and get married will likely find their lives radically changed from when they were single. One aspect of life where this change might be most noticeable is in the area of personal finance. Love can conquer many things, but when it comes to finances, love and money are like two heavyweights slugging it out during the title…
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Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a book of interest.
Over the last few years, I’ve come to believe that the biggest key to personal finance success is controlling your own psychology and impulses.
Our entire lives are filled with quick decisions we must constantly make – and, for the most part, we’re good at it. We commute to work without getting in an accident. We make constant little decisions at work – and at home, too. We’re able to effectively take several pieces of information, combine them together, and make a pretty good choice based on the result…
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