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Photo courtesy of Dravecky By now, you've no doubt heard the news that JC Penney has fired their new CEO Ron Johnson after only 17 months on the job, and reinstated their old CEO Mike Ullman. I've been following this story about JC Penney with...
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Image courtesy of Amazon J and I recently purchased a juicer. Not just any juicer, mind you. No, we bought the Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor. (Don't ask how much this bad boy set us back.) (It was $285.) (I know....
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Photo that will make you start humming the Village People courtesy of Cryptic C62 The mensch family has been a member of our local YMCA since we moved to Lafayette in June of 2010. I showed up there, hugely pregnant, and asked about their swimming classes...
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Back in December, I wrote about three of my favorite personal finance related books , so I thought I'd update you on the finance books I've read since then. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. My goodness, did I love this book. It basically...
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If con is the opposite of pro, then the opposite of progress must be... Last week, when I was suffering from writer's block , I asked you, dear readers, to give me some suggestions for topics. @Haverwench asked: "How about this sequester we're...
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Earlier this week, I received a message from an old friend from college, asking me if I would donate to a Great Strides charity walk she was taking part in this spring. Great Strides is raising money for Cystic Fibrosis, which is a cause very close to...
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Don't be fooled... 1. Water. I'm guilty of this, even with my environmentalist tendencies. Water comes freely out of the tap, so therefore it must be free. No matter how many water bills I pay, I still have trouble connecting the idea of money...
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Image courtesy of Obsidian Soul Several years ago, I read the book The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, which completely changed the way I look at decision making. I immediately started telling J how he was doing his decision making all wrong and...
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Believe it or not, I do read some books that aren't crappy romance novels . In fact, I have been known to read a book or two in the field of finance. As much as it would horrify my teenage self to know this, I'm actually quite riveted by some...
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When my sister was a little girl, she hoped to grow up to be Lynda Carter. Well, no. She actually wanted to be Wonder Woman when she grew up. That was why I was delighted to find this toy Wonder Woman , complete with invisible plane, which is suitable...
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