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in Taxes

Tax Breaks Freelancers Should Take Advantage of This Year

Taxes; everyone hates them. There seems to be no real reason that anyone would appreciate handing over a sizable chunk of their hard-earned income to the government every year, and that’s all right. We can all hate it, as long as we continue to pay them. Taxes are probably the biggest drawback to the freelance […] More

in How to Save Money

How You Can Save Money with Your Cell Phone Plans

Considering how frequently the vast majority of us use our cell phones and all that we can actually do with them, the price we pay for them is actually pretty insignificant. However, it’s still expensive. For a while I was paying over $400 per month for a plan with four lines. It’s a much more […] More

in How to Save Money

Money-Saving Beauty Products You Already Have in Your Kitchen

in Personal Finance

Five Times Hunting for Deals Actually Costs You Money

It doesn’t matter how much money you have in the bank, savings is savings. We all want to save on specific items that we purchase, and there is nothing wrong with that. Some like to save because it’s responsible spending and others like to save because they work regularly with a tight budget. It doesn’t […] More

in Parenting

10 Ways To Not Lose Yourself in Parenthood

My husband and I were celebrating my birthday in Hawaii back in 2007 when he looked at me in a champagne-haze and uttered the phrase, “I’m so happy with you, but if you woke up tomorrow and said you wanted to have a baby with me, I’d be so happy.” What a waste of a […] More

in Parenting

10 Strange Skills You Develop as a Parent

School started for my kids last week and it was the best week of my life. Okay, not the best week of my life, but pretty darn close. It was, however, the best week of my 1-year-old twin’s lives. They are blissfully free of the over-abundance of sometimes painful and questionable “love” given to them […] More

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The Hardest Truths We Have To Teach Our Children

My little girl, my second little love, began VPK this year. She’s four-and-a-half, and she’s spunky. She’s exceptionally stubborn, she likes things done very precisely and she is not a fan of change. No, that’s not truthful of me. She hates change. If she catches me with her bedroom furniture moved so that I can […] More

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10 Things My Kids Have Totally Wrong

I’m just going to come right out and say it; kids are kind of dumb. It never ceases to amaze me how little tiny humans can be so intelligent and insightful and yet still so stupid. I mean, really; it’s kind of embarrassing. For example, my best friend/cousin-in-law and I walk each night around the […] More

in Lifestyle

An Open Letter to All You Teenage Girls At the Swimming Pool

in How to Save Money

Money Saving Strategies You Learned in Kindergarten

Kindergarten is a pretty ideal place. I’d love to be there at this point in my life. I feel as if I did not properly appreciate all that the class had to offer when I was there the first time 26 years ago. I want a do-over. Looking back, I realize now that I should […] More

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