November 2008

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Teaching your kids about money

What one thing do you wish you could change about your financial situation? Have you given your children the knowledge to make sure they don’t fall into the same hole? Are you teaching your children the importance of saving for purchases? What about when you go out to the store, do they have certain expectations [...]

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Tightening of the Credit Belt

I came across this article on Yahoo! Finance and thought I would share my feelings on how the current economic crisis will impact the average family with regard to being able to purchase new cars. The article lists 6 key ways car shopping has changed and for the most part I think the changes are [...]

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Adjusting your withholding

Each year around this time I start thinking about Christmas shopping and doing my tax return. Two things that could be fun, but because of the process involved, never is. Not sure there is much I can do about the Christmas shopping thing, but with the ever improving tax software that is available, finishing my [...]

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How to deal with financial fear

At this time in our economy there are a lot of people facing some very scary situations. Job loss, foreclosure, retirement accounts loosing large chunks, home prices falling and that is just to name a few. Their are a lot of people out there preying on those that are dealing with these types of situations. [...]

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