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I've Been A Stay-At-Home Mom For 8 Years And I'm Miserable
Eight years. I’ve spent the last eight years of my life as a stay-at-home mom. The thing is, I didn’t quit my job to be a stay-at-home mom. I was pretty happy as a working mom. My two young children...
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Here's How To Decide Who Should Manage The Money In Your Relationship
If you’re in a relationship—or have ever been in a relationship—you know that managing money as a twosome can be tricky. We get questions every day about … how should we divide it? Who should pay for...
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5 Money Lessons Only My Mother Could Teach Me
I owe my financial habits to my mother, and I say that with pride and with the fear that she might melt me with her eyes if I didn’t. As one of the “greats,” even in a particularly frugal line of...
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How I Pulled Off A 100-Person Wedding For Only $4,000
When my husband and I got engaged back in 2010, I felt simultaneously thrilled … and like I needed to brace myself for an oncoming wave, whose only purpose was to sweep over me and pull all of my...
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Sending Your Kid To This Camp Could Make Him A Millionaire
Okay, so sending your kid to Camp Millionaire might not actually make him a millionaire, but it’ll sure get him excited about taking care of his finances. And that’s probably a lot more helpful for...
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You May Spend More Time At Your Desk If You Actually Take The Time To Improve...
Most of us spend about 40 hours per week at work—in other words, the majority of our waking hours. And nearly all of those hours are spent sitting at our desks. It’s a definite problem—and not just...
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10 Social Media Screw Ups That Can Ruin Your Career
You probably know all the ways social media can help you professionally. You can demonstrate your expertise on a topic using Twitter, network your way to a new job using LinkedIn and keep old...
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INDENTURED FOR INSURANCE: I'm A Slave To My Health Care
“What am I going to do? COBRA costs almost half my rent,” I wept to a friend of mine. “I can’t afford health insurance anymore, but we all know I’m one of those people who has to have it.” All my...
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5 Money Lessons I Could Have Only Learned From My Dad
I knew I had married my father the day my husband Fred lost his black comb. It was four inches of plastic with teeth and cost about 75 cents at the CVS, but instead of parting with three quarters to...
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10 Completely Absurd Products For Sale On Etsy Right Now
We love Etsy. And the thing that's really won our hearts is the enormous volume of wacky, never-before-seen goods available for purchase. Sure, the website for small business vendors has emerged as a...
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Does Cutting Coupons Really Save You More Money?
My mother-in-law was extreme couponing before there was a cable show about it (actually, before there was even cable). When I married my husband, I was determined to be the coupon ninja-in-training to...
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10 Wedding Presents You Should Never Buy For Newlyweds
A monogrammed towel with the wrong initials? A birdbath for a fifth floor walkup? When so many couples register for wedding gifts, how can the giver go so wrong? To prevent gift-giving mishaps, it’s...
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The Key To Finding The Willpower To Better Your Finances
Aside from our mothers’ nagging, our guilty consciences and Jiminy Cricket, willpower is the best thing we have to help us do the right thing when it comes to our money. Accomplishing financial goals,...
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Gilles Simon Thinks Female Tennis Players Should Earn Less Than Men
This week, one man took the Paycheck Fairness Act to court. A tennis court, that is. In a recent interview with a French radio station, tennis player Gilles Simon (ranked 15 in this year’s Wimbledon...
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STUDY: Do Men Or Women Give More To Charity?
At LearnVest we are all about being smart when it comes to charity: giving what we can to the right causes, and not just around the holiday season. So we jumped when we saw a BiddingforGood study...
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Is A Traditional Custom Wedding Cake Worth The Price?
Why spend $1,000 on a custom wedding cake when most guests don’t even eat it? Cake is a storied wedding tradition, but by the time it gets cut up and passed around, other dessert has been served and...
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6 Money Lessons You Can Learn From Reality TV
A little reality television never hurt anyone. In fact, we like to think that it can be educational. We learn important things, like not to feed our children Go-Go Juice (thanks, "Toddlers and...
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There's A Long Way To Go For 'Girls Who Code'
What do Lady Gaga and Sheryl Sandberg have in common? Last week, both women found a place on Newsweek/The Daily Beast’s Digital Power Index, a list of the 100 most powerful people in the digital...
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Research Is Proving That Wealth Makes Us Horrible People
Does money make us mean? A recent article in New York Magazine shed light on the correlation between wealth and social skills. LearnVest covered some of the research a few months ago, focusing on the...
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Generation Rent: Why Young Adults Won't Buy Homes
“I will never live in the suburbs.” Jaclyn King, a 28-year old from Denver, Colorado, tells the Associated Press that she plans to keep living—and renting—in the city of Denver for a long time to...
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