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Be Frugal and Clean. Make Your Own Homemade Laundry Detergent and Save Money

Trent over at The Simple Dollar posted an article about making laundry detergent and enjoying homemade laundry detergent benefits, namely saving money. Let’s bump frugality up a notch today and learn how to save money with homemade laundry soap. Trent said he’s been experimenting with making lots of cleaning supplies at home, but this one …

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What’s in Your Go Bag? Are You Prepared for the Next Unexpected Emergency? Start with Small Savings.

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein Units be advised we are receiving a 911 call of a subject wearing dark clothing, sunglasses, carrying a rifle and entering the mall…the radio is silent, but you know everyone and their mother in en route to that …

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Covid Debt Swallowing Middle Class

The Wall Street Journal ran a great piece yesterday No Job, Loads of Debt: Covid Upends Middle-Class Family Finances. You might not be able to see it because it requires a subscription. But the prediction I made in The Coronavirus Might Just Kill Your Finances Before It Kills Anyone You Know looks like it is …

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How Do I Find Out Where My Old Life Insurance Policy is Now?

Question: Dear Steve, In 1982 I bought a Life Insurance term policy and Bankcard Holders was the policyholder. Since then I have divorced and remarried and wish to change my beneficiary. However, it appears this company is now out of business. Would you know how I would find out who purchased their existing accounts at …

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54 Free & Cheap Things to Do at Home With Your Kids

Keeping your kids busy and on track with their studies is challenging, especially when you need to work remotely at the same time. Luckily, there are hundreds of incredible online resources that you and your family can use. Many sites have even opened their educational platforms to free public access during the coronavirus crisis. Here are several of our …

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ER Staffing Company Reverses Benefits Cuts for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus

A major medical staffing company said it wouldn’t go through with cuts to doctors’ pay and benefits after ProPublica first reported the plans. Alteon Health, which employs more than 1,700 doctors and other medical workers nationwide, said Sunday it won’t cut medical directors’ stipends by 20%, as planned, and will continue offering paid time off, …

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The Coronavirus Might Just Kill Your Finances Before It Kills Anyone You Know

The coronavirus, AKA COVID-19, might be more life-threatening to the those who least suspect and the old but the life implications might just kill the financial lives of a wide swath of people. Year-after-year the warnings come out about how much people save for an emergency. The results are never good. Bankrate reported in 2019 …

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