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One of the biggest challenges that people face when it comes to personal finance success is lifestyle inflation. It’s a subtle thing that people often just take on without even really noticing or thinking about it, but then it turns out to be a vicious enemy of their financial goals.

What Is Lifestyle Inflation?

Lifestyle inflation simply refers to an increase in spending in response to an increase in income. Whenever a person starts bringing home more money and then, because of that increased income, they start spending more by buying a nicer car, buying more gadgets, and so on, they’re undergoing lifestyle inflation.

Money and college can be confusing. Whether you’re just starting out on your college journey or dealing with student loans from years ago, here is a glossary of helpful terms you may need to know:

Accredited: If your college and program is accredited, it means that it has met specific requirements by the U.S. Department of Education. You’ll have to attend an accredited school to get federal loans or use any federal aid.

Administrative Wage Garnishment: If your federal student loans go into default, the federal government has the ability to take up to 15% of your disposable income directly from your employer.

APR/Annual Percentage Rate: This percentage is the interest rate you will pay on your loan.

There's no way to avoid stress altogether — unless you know something we don't know — but there are plenty of positive ways you can reduce it before it gets out of hand. Let's look at 15.
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Shopping at Whole Foods can definitely put a dent in your wallet. We've offered suggestions before on the best ways to save at Whole Foods.

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As of today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has erased all of its gains this year. We’re not quite in “market correction” territory, though. The S&P 500 is still up year-to-date, but it isn’t presenting as fantastic a return as was evident earlier in the year. We could be getting to the point where the market finds itself in the midst of a market correction.

I wouldn’t pretend to be able to predict the daily, weekly, monthly, or annual swings of the stock market, but there’s no reason to rule a correction out as a possibility. Investing professionals typically define a market correction as the point at which an index that measures broad market performance is down 20 percent from a high. The Dow would have to be below 14,000 for there to be a market correction (and that would be down 20 percent from high of 17,279.74). The Dow could theoretically get there.

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.
1. Money discipline with baby exhaustion
2. Never enough
3. Piles of old paperbacks
4. Books for high earners
5. Investing small amounts
6. The $2,000 iPad
7. Buy it for life: Goodwill
8. Comparing quality of life
9. “Costco-sized portions”

So you’re thinking about starting a business. Congrats! Now what? Odds are good that if you’re starting a business, you’re a “solopreneur” — meaning it’s just you, and you’ve got some questions about what to do next.

Whether it’s your first startup or you’ve been down this path before, identifying and accessing key resources — both online and offline — will save you money when you launch your business. Today’s post will explore money-saving tools, software, and practices to help you launch your startup in a cost-efficient manner. Ultimately you will have to assess your own business and financial resources to decide what is best for your situation.

So how do you set up a business correctly and get the wheels turning with limited capital and resources?

Organization is all about time management and making sure your belongings have a designated home for easy access and cleanup.