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By Maria Laurino With our
economy in a major meltdown, it's no surprise that we're
being bombarded with advice about our personal finances. But in the
past year, the emphasis of that advice has made a surprising shift:
the media, schools and banks are all telling us that we… Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (2) | Blog
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Yes, times are indeed tough. But robbing a toddler's piggy bank to make ends meet? Now that's a new low. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (3) | Blog
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Like it or not (and believe me, I don't), we live in the age of the $60 candle. It's as if one day, all the fancy candle people got together and decided that, while for years, candles had been topping out at around twelve bucks (for a really big one), suddenly the market could—and should—support candles priced at 5 times that amount. And so it was. (Sort of like when jeans became a $200 expense? What? And we are all just going along with this? Is it any wonder our collective pockets are empty these days?) I digress. The point is, whether you've paid $5 or $500 for a candle, it probably came in some kind of glass container that just might be pretty enough to serve as a bud vase, piggy bank, matchbook collector or some other such useful thing if only you could get all the leftover wax and burned-out wick out of the bottom of the jar. Thank goodness for Jessica over at How About Orange, who says... Read More »
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