How to Get Your Spouse on Board With Budgeting
Money is the most common cause of stress in relationships, according to a study conducted by The Harris Poll, and fights about finances are often cited as the reason for …
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Why Behavior Nudges Don’t Always Lead to Healthy Habits
In the 10 years since the illuminating book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein was published, the …
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How Too Many Small Decisions Can Cost You Big
Toward the end of her life, my grandmother’s doctor told her to avoid a number of her favorite foods — including ice cream. Whenever my mother found a pint of …
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How Habit Boredom Makes You Abandon Your Goals
Earlier this year, fueled by a trip down the rabbit hole that is Pinterest’s bullet journaling suggestions, I found a new way to make a habit of cleaning my house: …
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How the Sandwich Generation Can Protect Their Retirement
For those who are caring for their aging parents and raising kids at the same time, it can often seem like there’s never enough time, money, or energy to provide …
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Ask the Readers: What Time Management Tools Do You Use?
It’s easy to let things fall by the wayside when you’re busy, but time management tools can help you organize your day and allow you to get things done. They …
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How to Get Your Kid Started With Investing
My daughter recently lost $80 in her bedroom. It’s just gone. One theory is that we accidentally donated it to Goodwill, since she had stored it in an old book …
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Ask the Readers: What Is Your Favorite Productivity Tool?
Getting things done can be really hard when distractions are coming at you from every direction. Fortunately, there are plenty of productivity tools out there that are designed to help …
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How Much Time Do Gig Apps Really Save You?
Time… where does it all go? The 2017 Annual American Time Use Survey from the U.S. Department of Labor revealed that people with full-time jobs spend more than two hours …
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3 Things You Should Consider Before Selling Your House for Cash
In August of 2017, an investor called us and offered to buy our condo for cash. We didn’t have it listed for sale. The condo was in great condition, the …
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