Ask the Readers: What Do You Do For Self-Care?
It’s important to take good care of your mental, emotional, and physical health every day. That’s where self-care habits and activities can help. What do you do for self-care? How …
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How to Keep Office Solicitations From Busting Your Budget
Are office solicitations becoming a regular drain on your paycheck? Last week, it was the IT woman asking if you’d buy overpriced gift wrap to support her daughter’s music program. …
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Ask the Readers: What’s Your Best Experience With Customer Service?
We often hear horror stories about terrible customer service, so let’s shift gears and talk about the companies and reps that went above and beyond to make sure you, the …
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Ask the Readers: What Are Your Best Back-to-School Tips?
Back-to-school season is a busy time for many families, especially those with multiple school-aged kids. And if you need to buy supplies, sports gear, or new clothes, it can get …
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Ask the Readers: What Helps You Be More Productive?
No one is 100% productive, all the time. Sometimes, we need to create the environment that allows us to work more and work better. What helps you be more productive? …
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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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