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4 ways to avoid the office spending trap 23 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
A couple of years ago, my husband and I worked together at a local funeral home. Unbeknownst to me, an unexceptional weekday turned out to be "Administrative Professionals Day." I had never heard of t...
3 oft-overlooked ways to add savings 16 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
Though much of my life, I've had a reputation as a tight-fisted, penny-pinching pinchpenny. "The cheapest guy I ever met," is how one friend of 30 years refers to me, with just a hint of a smile crink...
6 ways to wreck your credit without knowing it 10 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
I was at the house of a songwriter friend of mine who recently came back from a tour of Texas and Oklahoma, and he showed me an unusual souvenir he picked up on the road: a bill for the credit card he...
No card, no problem: 4 online payment alternatives 3 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
Recently, my husband and I decided to plan a vacation with a couple of our friends. After batting some ideas around, we all decided that we wanted to go to Mexico. Of course, I immediately started per...
Cats, credit cards and catastrophes 27 Jul 2013 | 02:51 am
OK, I admit it: I'm a cat nut. Tati, the oldest of our three, had a mystery condition when he was very young, and it cost $10,000 to diagnose and treat it. True, most of that came from insurance, but ...
2 steps to beneficial credit card spending 18 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am
Sometimes it seems to me that every personal finance article on the Internet suggests that the only side effect of credit card use is overspending. And obviously overspending is something that needs t...
Does your start-up need a business credit card? 12 Jul 2013 | 02:04 am
I'm not sure exactly when the fever took hold, but more than a few people I know have made the decision to start businesses in the last year or so. Whether it's turning an old Airstream trailer into a...
Is it safe to start spending again? 6 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
I've been writing about business and money for a depressingly high number of decades. But I only started to cover credit cards in 2008. Remember that year? It was when the impact of the credit crunch ...
One book's mission to teach personal finance 2 Jul 2013 | 04:14 am
You can argue ad infinitum whether U.S. public schools do a good job in teaching reading, writing, arithmetic and all the other subjects taught to the tune of a hickory stick. But on one subject you'r...
Student loan payback: a 60-second guide 14 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
Are student loans the next housing bubble? They're certainly making headlines right now. The U.S. Senate recently failed to advance two bills aimed at preventing interest rates on subsidized Stafford ...
