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by Farnoosh Torabi for CBS MoneyWatch.com

When I first heard about the big push to take $1 bills out of circulation to save on printing costs, I was not a fan. Cash, as we know, limits our spending. Having fewer bills in circulation would likely result in more of us using credit cards to pay for purchases - that was my initial thought.

But there's a potential upside, too. By getting rid of $1 bills, we will be left with bigger bills in our wallets, and research finds that our spending decisions are influenced by the denomination of our bills. A study published in 2009 in The Journal of Consumer Research proves that the chance of spending drops when an equivalent sum of money is represented by a single large denomination (e.g., one $20 bill) relative to many smaller denominations (20 $1 bills). It's called the "denomination effect." Bottom line: The bigger the bill, the less likely you'll break it.

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by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch.com

Business travelers face a minefield of dietary disasters. There are the airport lounges with free booze and snacks, the butter-soaked steak dinners - and of course, the late-night arrivals and room service. All of these can make business travel bearable, but they can also make us fat.

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-- What People Earn: Lessons for a Salary Stalker

-- True Tales: Job Interview Meltdowns

-- Travel Deals: 10 Best Secrets from Peter Greenberg

-- 5 Ways Facebook Could Get You Fired

Nobody knows this better than Peter Shankman, the social media entrepreneur who founded HARO, a service that connects reporters and sources. He travels about 300 days a year, and despite completing an Ironman late last year, he admits to being heavier than he'd like. Enter his new blog, A Year to Ten Percent, which documents his journey to reduce

by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch.com

How much money do you make? An impolite question? Perhaps. But who doesn't wonder, "What does that guy make for doing his job?" (Or, more likely: 'Am I getting shafted on my own salary?') In Parade Magazine's Annual What People Earn Issue, they take the guesswork out of salary suspicions. Here's a roundup of Parade's pay profiles, for all you salary stalkers out there - plus a few takeaways for your own career decisions.

-- Business Travel Diet: 8 Rules to Lose Weight

-- Dream Jobs: 6-Figure Salaries You Can Get

-- Job Interview? 9 Great Ways to Get to Round 2

-- Are You Getting Paid Enough?

-- True Tales: Job Interview Meltdowns

Real Jim Halpert (aka The Office's resident good-looking, good guy)

• Who: Ross McArthur, 26, a sales executive from Scranton, Pa.
• What He Makes: $70,000
• What We Learned: Sales can pay-but maybe not well

by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch.com

In the mood for love this spring? Consider this: More than 30 percent of respondents to a recent survey admitted to some form of "hooking-up" at the office. No, not just with someone at the office. At the actual office itself, or at least somewhere on company property.

Indeed, if you see your co-workers through rose-colored glasses, you're not alone. According to this same survey, almost 60 percent of respondents reported having taken part in some kind of office romance.

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-- Dream Jobs: 6-Figure Salaries You Can Get

-- Job Interview? 9 Great Ways to Get to Round 2

-- 10 Ways to Stop Fighting About Money

-- Love & Money Quiz: What's Your Type?

It's not unexpected that you'd fall in love with a co-worker - after all, you're around them for forty-plus hours a week and presumably share some interests. But

by Stacey Bradford for CBS MoneyWatch.com

When it comes to relationships, we all know there are certain types of people who aren't marriage material. Some that come to mind include women who can't commit and men with wondering eyes. But let's not forget to include potential partners who are lousy with money.

I recently chatted with Michael Sion, author of Money & Marriage, How to Choose a Financially Compatible Spouse, for his opinion on the types of people who make toxic spouses. Here are the four he recommends you never marry:

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-- 10 Ways to Stop Fighting About Money

1. The Shady One

This person may be charming but he also isn't completely honest. He misrepresents himself in lots of little ways because he probably has

by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch.com

Do you think of HR as "hardly relevant," an Oz-like department to be feared, that only hires you and eventually conducts your exit interview? I spoke to career strategist J.T. O'Donnell, who wrote Careerealism: The Smart Approach to A Satisfying Career and consults for both companies and individuals. She told me that thinking this way about HR could cost you your job.

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-- Dream Jobs: 6-Figure Salaries You Can Get

-- 5 Smart Business Card Tricks

-- Disappearing Jobs: 10 High-Paying Careers with No Future

-- 6 Big Career Killers: What to Do Now

"HR catches a bad rap because no one talks about the good things they accomplish," says O'Donnell. Put simply, however, HR has a vested interest in you - money. "It costs an average of 130 percent of a person's salary to replace them. Recruiting costs

by Stacey Bradford for CBS MoneyWatch.com

I'm embarrassed to admit this but my daughter has atrocious table manners. She can't sit still for more than a few minutes. Not so long ago, she even went through a doggie phase where she pretended that she was a puppy and ate her meals at our feet. Now that my little girl is officially five-years-old, I've decided this behavior must stop.

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-- Ban the Birthday Party Goodie Bag

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-- Money & Manners: Are You Being Rude

How do I transform my jumping bean into a well-mannered young lady? In the past I probably would have thrown some money at the problem and enrolled her in etiquette classes. Here in New York City that costs around $200 for four hours of training. But if there's one thing I've learned over the past five years it's that cash rarely solves

by Kathy Kristof for CBS MoneyWatch.com

We all do it. We spend little amounts regularly on things like lunch, Starbucks lattes, manicures, golf - maybe even for having a pizza delivered while you watch a weekly game on TV.

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-- Splurges That Make Sense

These seem like reasonable decisions about relatively small expenses. It's hard to imagine how much they add up.

The harsh reality is that each dollar that's spent today isn't available for something else tomorrow. And these little purchases have a way of robbing us of the things we really want.

Why? Most of us haven't stopped to consider whether that daily latte is truly precious to our well-being, or if it's just a habit. If it's precious, it's worth doing - at least part