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How to Not Go Broke This Holiday Season

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Money expert Jean Chatzky tells us how to survive the holidays without going into the red.

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7 big money mistakes to avoid

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By Mary Hunt

I’m going to guess you’ve made a financial mistake or two in your life. Who hasn’t? For some of us, it was more than an occasional late fee or random urge to overspend that brought us to our financial knees. But I’m not talking about the kind of blunders that got us into trouble—we could list those in our sleep. Instead, I want to focus on the mistakes people make while they’re working their way back to financial health. Whether you’re recovering from a season of unemployment or from a financial mess you created on your own, avoid these goofs and you’ll get where you want to go much faster.

21 websites that save you time and money

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By Mary Hunt

It’s hard to imagine what life was like before the Internet. Yet as wonderful as it is to have so much information so readily available, it can be overwhelming. Take “grocery coupons,” for example. Type that into Google and you’ll get 19 million results. Search “budget” at Yahoo and up pop 1.25 billion options!

To narrow the field, here are 21 websites to help you save—I’ve even included a couple of great coupon sites, so you won’t have to sift through all those Google results.