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10 Dumb Little Productivity Killers You Need to Stop Doing Today

Are you reading this article during your third coffee break or on your smartphone during a meeting?

If so, then you are part of the 69% of workers that say that they waste time at work every day.

How else are you wasting time — and getting less done? Here are 10 dumb little productivity...
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16 Festive Ways to Make Extra Money for the Holidays

It's that time of year again — time to start hemorrhaging money in the name of tradition and capitalism and Santa Claus. But what if you took a different approach this holiday season and made some extra cash before you spent it? It's feasible, and you can even be festive while you're at...

Best Money Tips: Where to Cash in Your Clutter

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some helpful articles on where to cash in your clutter, things you didn’t know about procrastination and how to cure it, and travel tips for infrequent fliers.
Top 5 Articles

6 Places You Can Cash in Your Clutter —...

Best Deals for Thursday 10/23

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Macy's Red Star Spectacular Sale: Up to 50% off + extra 20% off, Nine West Family and Friends Event: 30% off...
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How Designers Get a Seat at the CEO Table

Our Q and A with Christopher Simmons, director of MINE, where we discuss how designers can go deeper than the creative brief.

10 Ways that Football Season Can Blitz Your Finances

Being a football fan is all fun and games — until it starts making you broke. Cut the financial damage off at the pass by recognizing 10 money traps that the gridiron holds. (See also: How Everyone Can Cut the Cable — Even Sports Fans)
1. Fantasy Football Buy-Ins

If you're into...

10 Types of Bargains You Should Skip

I love a good bargain. If you're reading Wise Bread, I'm sure you do as well. However, some bargains are more like a wolf in sheep's clothing. They appear to be deals on the surface, but when you really look at them you realize they're either ploys to make you spend more, or they're a complete...
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Organizing for disasters

Are you prepared for a disaster: an earthquake, flood, hurricane, blizzard, fire?

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8 Personal Finance Tips for Introverts

So, you're an introvert. Whether you've known this forever or are just realizing it, welcome to our happy, friendly, quiet tribe.

Introversion can play a role in everything from earning power to how and when and why I make the investment decisions I do. Here are some financial tips based on...

Find Your Happiness, Find Your Success

1 in 10 businesses will succeed. One. In. Ten. That’s a huge failure rate when it comes to starting a business. The odds are already stacked against you. If you want to improve your chances of success at anything you do, you have one choice to make that will create a foundation on which all your...

7 Basic Ways to Become Your Own Life Coach

Life coaching is about improving the happiness and success of someone's life on their own terms. This might entail finding a meaningful career, growing fulfilling relationships, or improving health and fitness levels. Life coaches can be incredibly valuable though the help and advice isn't...

The 6 Best Reasons to Quit Your Job

Most Americans are unhappy in the workplace. Studies show that nearly three-quarters of corporate employees would realistically consider finding a new job today. About a third are already looking. Why? Well, these numbers shed a little light: 31% of all workers are irked by their boss, 35% are...
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How to Create Habits That Stick (+Pavlok Giveaway)

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Maneesh Sethi. Getting a call from the Travel Channel was the best thing that ever happened for my diet. And I didn’t even need to starve myself on some new wilderness reality show. In 2011, a production company and the Travel Channel decided to...

Join Our Tweetchat on Thursday 10/23, 12pm PST for a Chance to Win $300 in Prizes!

Join our Tweetchat this Thursday at 12:00pm PST/ 3:00pm EST for lively conversation and a chance to win a $200 gift card or one of two $50 gift cards! Use #WBChat and #RetireReady to participate.
This week's topic: Retirement Readiness! Learn about the importance of saving for retirement and...

Here’s My Habits Manifesto. What’s Yours?

Every Wednesday is List Day, or Tip Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: My Habits Manifesto. Writing a personal manifesto is a great exercise for clarifying your thinking — and it’s also a creative, absorbing process. I’ve written my Twelve Personal Commandments, and I also collect Secrets of...

A Guide to Changing Self-Destructive Behaviors

By Leo Babauta I have a reader who wants to make positive changes in her life, but can’t seem to stop certain behaviors. She writes: “I am consistently challenged with being mindful when buying food. What do you do when you are doing things that self-destructive and are not good and...

Best Money Tips: How to Clean Everything in Your Home

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on how to clean everything in your home, budget friendly hobbies, and the times you should always spend to save.
Top 5 Articles

How to Clean Everything in Your Home and Beyond — Get rid of the coffee...

Best Deals for Wednesday 10/22

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Living Social: 15% off (max $50 discount), Banana Republic: 35% off sitewide, Baby Strollers bundled with $50...
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10 Things You Should NOT Do to Your Yard This Fall

The air is starting to chill and the leaves are starting to fall. Pools are coming down, and plans for how to prepare the yard for winter are being made. There is never enough time, it seems, to get everything in order for the new season, but it isn't the occasion to take shortcuts; in fact,...
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20 Cheap and Easy Halloween Costumes for Adults

As a 30-something adult, I've dressed up for many Halloween parties and celebrations throughout the years. Would you believe that I've only bought my costume a handful of times? Heading to those crowded, overpriced costume pop-up shops gives me anxiety — and it certainly empties a fair...