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Top 6 Reasons Why Using Cash-Only Rocks

Posted March 16, 2009 - 06:10 by Tisha Tolar

Personal Finance

While I am a cash-only person by circumstance (paid off the credit cards and never reopened accounts), I am so grateful that I live in a cash world. Of course, having only cash is not always convenient and does occasionally make it difficult to rent a car – but overall I am so happy to no longer be a slave to the credit card industry and the high interest rates that are overwhelming so many people around the nation.There are also so very good reasons why using only cash is completely logical.

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Back to Reality: Coming Down after the Holidays

Posted January 6, 2009 - 10:55 by Sarah Winfrey

General Tips

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Whatever holidays you celebrate in November, December, and January, they're over now. We spend November and December gearing up, getting ready, anticipating days off from work, travel, good food, and good times with people we love. Then January hits, and that's all over. Not only that, but the bills for all that hope and anticipation start arriving and we go back to our normal daily routine. It's no wonder if we sometimes look up and ask if the holidays really meant anything after all.
Seasons of letdown are difficult for the human spirit. They just are. There's not any way around that. But there are ways to lessen the impact of a letdown, any letdown, has on you.

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Our worst financial mistakes and what you can learn from them

Posted 2 years ago by Julie Rains

Filed Under: Credit Cards, Investment, Real Estate and Housing

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"Learn from the mistakes of others, because you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." (Anonymous)

I’ve asked my fellow bloggers here at Wise Bread to tell you about their worst financial mistakes (and have included mine). Hopefully, wherever you may be in your living-large journey, you can learn from us. After you've read our story, we want to hear yours! Tell us your worst financial mistake in the comments and be entered into a random drawing for a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate!

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