Best Money Tips: Summer's Bounty

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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup!

If you are thinking of buying a car, new or used, you'll want to be aware of common tricks that car salesmen use to jack up the price of the purchase, says Get Rich Slowly.

CCN, the company behind many of those fake Oprah-endorsed ads for free acai berry drinks and supplements, has to pay back the 1.4 million that it bilked customers out of using upselling and all kinds of other deceptive practices, reports Consumerist.

Frugal Dad explains why everyone needs a "side hustle", which is way less illicit than it sounds.

Money Smart Life tells you how to set up a side business.

Five Cent Nickel has five things you can do that will make your life better today.

Stay-at-home dads are increasingly common, says Alpha Consumer, who interviews Jeremy Adam Smith, the author of The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family.

Don't Mess With Taxes has advice for Jon & Kate, which should pretty much apply to anyone going through a messy split.

The Wallet tells you how to lazily manage your money.

Frugal Upstate has a killer recommendation for storing your garden herbs.

American Consumer News tells you to just go ahead and cancel your gym membership, because you never go anyway. Of course, they say it better, and with more words and a proper list and everything.

Mrs. Micah has advice for talking to your honey about money, preferably before you get married and realize that you are now the owner of your spouse's 157K in gambling debt.

 

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Carolyn

Um, looks like you've got the Frugal Dad article in there twice.

Andrea Karim's picture

Oops, thanks. 

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Justin

Great list of informaive links and sites. Sure appreciate your knowledge and continuous posts.

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Ben

Mmmm, those strawberries look good, they certainly do make me think of summer time. Thanks for mentioning the post on a side business!

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Kay

what a pleasant surprise to find you included my Jon & Kate post. Thanks!

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@Carolyn: And here I thought Andrea just really enjoyed the post! Seriously, thanks Andrea, for the mention of my side hustle post. I enjoyed all the other links as well.

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$175k in gambling debt...ouch. Thanks for including the article. There are some other relationship finances articles coming up this July!