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Patriotism and Personal Finance - A Brief Walk Through American History

Posted 20 weeks 2 days ago by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Real Estate and Housing, Taxes

Child Saluting American Flag
To all the Americans out there, happy Independence Day! I think this a great day to reflect upon how personal finance and patriotism is so intertwined in America. So I dug up a few tidbits from American history and summarized them here.

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Jettison the junk: why clutter clouds your mind and saps your energy

Posted 1 year 15 weeks ago by Andrea Dickson

Lifestyle

lots of junk
There's a man who lives down the street from me who's a big fan of dumpster diving. And by "fan" I mean, that's all he does. His back yard is a sea of garbage. He has 30 broken refrigerators on his giant back porch. His truck, which is parked in front of my house, is overflowing with discarded junk like broken baby strollers, cardboard boxes, paving stones, and dried out cans of paint. He's impoverished. Yet he has all this crap lying around.

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