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Growing up in the 1950?s

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Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. Kids did chores and not all of them were ‘safe’ My brother mowed the lawn with a homemade electric lawnmower. Most of us did not have air conditioned homes.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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That would just be silly and… Jeffrey presents Money Rules Book Review: A Quick Guide to Finances posted at Money Spruce , saying, “I recently checked out the new book Money Rules: The Simple Path to Lifelong Security by Jean Chatzky. Even professional bond market money managers do not beat the bond market.”

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