If you are trying to figure out how to eat healthy without spending your whole paycheck at Whole Foods, look no further than your mom. Let’s just take the family diet on offer at my household circa the mid-90s. This was pre-internet. There were no mommy forums, no meal-planning sites, no coupon-clipping apps. But my […]
Set a Budget: The Gap Between What You Can Afford and What You Want
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Do you head into a purchase with a budget but end up spending far more than that amount? Here’s a theory… The gap between what you can afford and what you want can be measured by how well aspirational marketing works on you. If aspirational marketing works well on you, (read: Real Housewives, Dom Perignon […]
Commuter Tax Benefits Restored: Here’s How to Take Advantage
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When most of us hear sensational financial news like the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff, it’s better to tune out the noise than get involved in stale political debates. But there was a little-reported result of the fiscal cliff deal that can help you save money right away: the restoration of the commuter tax […]
Why Your Favorite Celebrity is a Corporation
Have you ever wondered about how the movie business works? For your sake, I hope you never find out. Learning the secrets of the entertainment industry is like waking up every morning and finding out that the Easter Bunny killed Santa in a bloody fight to the death, and both of them were figments of […]
