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We’ve all faced it at some point in our life.

Your next paycheck isn’t due to arrive for a week or so. You don’t have much in your checking account and there’s not too much in the cupboards, either. You need to put food on the table for the next week but you have only a tiny amount of money.

What do you do?

In this situation, many of the usual strategies don’t work. Grow a garden? Useless; you don’t have three months to wait for food to grow. Buy in bulk? How exactly are you going to do that with an extremely limited budget?

I’ve been in this situation a few times, particularly during my college years, but even a couple of times later on. It’s hard, especially when you have family members relying on you, particularly children.

This past weekend at FinCon14 was a loooong-overdue reunion with the money media community.  Great times, great talks, great eats … and great music!

One of the very first people who greeted me at FinCon14 this past weekend was Crystal from Budgeting In The Fun Stuff.  She was sporting some spunky blue highlights and was every bit as friendly and gregarious as I remember her from three years ago.

After a small bit of chat she told me about her travel from Texas with Megabus.

Looks great for relatively nearby travel

At the time I was talking with her, I failed to remember that Louisiana actually borders Texas, so her six-hour bus ride was from a neighboring state.

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some fantastic articles on saving money on beer, inexpensive date ideas, and saving more on dental care.
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13 Ways to Save Money on Beer — To save money on beer, go to happy hours and buy store brand beer.

Do you love your body? Do you want to?

When you love your body, you'll treat it in certain ways. You will lavish love on it, revel in it, and enjoy all of the things it allows you to do.

This means that you also will not do certain things to it.

Recently, one of my family members gave me a copy of the wonderful book The Nighttime Novelist. It was a little more than an obvious hint – this family member really believes that I have some interesting novels inside of me and she wants to read them.

While the book has a lot of good writing tactics, the part that really made it stand out for me was the overall sense of career encouragement. After all, many of the people who would read a book like this one are people who dream of becoming writers but find it difficult to make room for it in their busy life. The Nighttime Novelist focuses quite a bit on that problem – I mean, the title itself is a big hint – but the advice goes way beyond merely being a novelist.

Let’s start by looking at the core problem and then move on to solving it.

Everybody knows that their credit report matters. But beyond that, most people don't know much else.

Here are 13 things you don't know about your credit report — but should.
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This time of year gets the best of me when it comes to my inner nesting goddess. Whereas during the summer I'd rather cool off than decorate our spaces, fall brings me indoors and into full-on festive-mode.

This post comes from Shana Lebowitz at our partner site LearnVest.

What if you had the chance to impress 277 million professionals at once—convincing them you’re exactly what each of their organizations is missing?

As it turns out, you already have that opportunity on LinkedIn. According to a 2013 Jobvite survey, 96% of recruiters use the professional networking site to search for potential hires. Yet many job seekers are unaware of the profile features that could land—or cost—them the job.

The most important thing to remember is to make your LinkedIn profile public, Jenny Foss, president of the Ladder Recruiting Group, told MarketWatch.

Having a DIY attitude is great for saving money.

Between Google and YouTube, you have a virtually endless resource of tutorials and guides on how to do anything. From installing a ceiling fan to mending a wall, you can figure out how to get the job done yourself.