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What Makes a Saver?

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One of those something’s is probably going to be finding a way to never be in that situation again – which means you will learn to start saving, some how, some time. Those affected by our recent Great Recession have had the benefits of saving reinforced as well. For some, having an unmet need is enough to make a saver.

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Link Love Carnival #4

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All of us know someone who has had or is living with cancer, so we are banding together in June and help find a cure. You can conveniently find a payday lender online. However, due to the high demand for payday loans, payday loan scams are sprouting up as well. Suba tells us why you should not use your 401K.

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Investment Methods

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Graham (and Buffet) are known for their practice of ‘value investing’ – finding stocks that are undervalued. When I retired, I used this method to re-invest the proceeds from my company 401K (that I had rolled into an IRA). Instead, they had to be sold within the 401K and the proceeds reinvested in the IRA.

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Money and Life in Your Forties

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I loved being home with my birth family as a kid, going to elementary and high school, finding new found freedom at college in my teens and early twenties, striking out on my own in my twenties, having and raising my babies in my twenties and thirties. Find ways to integrate exercise into your daily life instead of latching it on to your day.

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Saving Tips & Free Crediting Monitoring

For the Mommas

Adrian Nazari, CEO and founder of CreditSesame.com , is available to talk about how consumers can start 2013 on the right financial foot, as well as discuss the top 3 financial resolutions and what consumers can do to address them including: Saving More. Have more money automatically withdrawn from your paycheck and put in your 401k.

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Why We Left Traditional Health Insurance

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In October 2003, I left a career as a department store buyer with a nice paycheck, paid vacation days, 401k match, profit sharing, and health benefits, to pursue a life of self employment with my husband where all of those things are up to us. We would need to find another policy for 1/1/16. In reality though, that was not the case.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

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In hopes of helping someone out there find answers to their own retirement questions, I share today my own retirement experiences and lessons learned to date. Hubby is one of those lucky few that actually has a pretty safe pension – one that also comes with health plans (which cover me as well) – so calculating his was easy.