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For many of us, the largest expense we’ll ever tackle in our lives is our housing. The cost of owning a family home easily devours multiples of a person’s annual income. The median home price in America today is around $200,000, while the average American household income is somewhere around $60,000. Put those together and it’s clear how big of an impact home ownership can have on a person’s lifetime financial picture.

One of the biggest elements of that housing cost is square footage. The larger your home, the more expensive it’s going to be. Other factors like location also play a part, of course – a 2000 square foot home in rural Iowa will cost far less than a 1500 square foot home in San Francisco, for example – but when you’re comparing homes in a similar area, larger homes will cost more than smaller ones.

When we first moved into our home, we nicknamed it "The House of Many Louvers," as there were dated louver doors on every closet, in some of the doorways, and oddly, blocking half of the hall.

Every month, 61 million Americans collect some sort of Social Security benefit. So the process to file for and receive benefits must run like a well-oiled machine, right?

Not necessarily.

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Food takes up a major part of a family’s monthly budget. Depending on the size of the family and their food choices, this can range from hundreds of dollars a month to well over a thousand dollars a month. It’s also an area of spending where frugal tactics can really cut that cost significantly.

However, there’s another aspect of food spending that’s often overlooked: Your dietary choices today can either increase or decrease your health care costs in the future. Making bad dietary choices can increase your long-term health care costs; making good dietary choices can decrease those very same costs.

This has several important implications when it comes to thinking about minimizing your costs.

First, “unhealthy” food is more expensive than you think over the long term. An unhealthy meal that adds to your long-term health care costs has an extra cost hidden inside, one that you don’t see on the initial sticker.

Making an effort to keep your bills paid on time is always a good idea, and for a variety of reasons. Whenever you make your payments late or become past due on a financial obligation, it can trigger some pretty unpleasant consequences. Sometimes that might include damage to your credit reports and scores, but not always.

If disaster strikes and you find yourself in a situation where you have more bills than money to pay them, you may be facing some tough choices about which financial obligations to take care of first and which ones to let slide while you try to dig yourself out of the hole. If you’re worried about the impact of a missed payment on your credit, you should know that not every account is necessarily going to have an immediate impact on your credit scores.

When Jim Wang and wife Martha flew to Taiwan with their infant six years ago, they had no idea what they were in for. Their baby wasn't even a year old and hadn't yet discovered he could walk, Wang says.

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