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4 Financial Lessons Your Parents Forgot to Teach You

Saving Cents With Sense

percent unemployment rate among 18-29 year olds , being financially savvy is a skill that gets you much farther than those humanity electives you took in college. You might have to share your house with your roommates but, depending on your location, it may be better than being stuck in a studio apartment on your own.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She lost both of her jobs in the course of a month, and they consequently couldn’t meet the mortgage payments on their almost new home as a result. Why shouldn’t we take that overseas vacation, buy that luxury condo at the lake, get new clothes every change of season, have that spiffy new car?

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Travel Tidbits: The Bees Knees Barn

Motherhood Moments

My mother, Jean May Herrington, (nee Thomas) who designed and built 'The Barn' in 1997, defied all gender expectations for what a woman could do, starting with the first National Merit Scholarship (Cornell University) and the cover of Life Magazine in 1946. I had a chance to learn more about the Bees Knees Barn in an interview.

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