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Why Use Cash?

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In 2008-2009 when we had the credit crunch and recession, there was at least one day when stores were not accepting credit. If you didn’t have cash to spend that day, you may well have been stranded out of gas. Using cash is seems tougher psychologically. Cash is almost universally accepted.

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How Growing Your Finances Is Like Gardening

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If you and your spouse or family disagree on saving, spending or investing one party may inadvertently sabotage the efforts of the other. One plant may do well in the sun, others in the shade. Some asset types do better during inflationary years, some do better in recessions. It’s the same way with finances.

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How To Get The Holiday Gifts You Really Want

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As it turns out, giving just may be a hard wired survival technique for humans. Ariel Knafo and other researchers from the psychology department at Hebrew University in Jerusalem designed and conducted an experiment that showed that certain people actually have DNA specific to giving. In “A Gift That Gives Right Back? Not necessarily.

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