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Kimberly Studdard

9 Best Home Investments (That Pay Off BIG When You Sell!)

There’s plenty of great advice about how to add value to your home, especially if you’re looking to make some money from those home improvements. But what if you don’t plan to sell your home but want to save money? If that applies to you, there are some home improvements that could save you a lot of money over time. Here are the nine best home investments, whether you sell or not! Related: How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in 5 Years (Robust Calculator Offer!) What adds the most value to a home? Would you be surprised to know that the project that adds the most value to a home is building an inground pool? Yep! It used to be that a pool almost detracted from

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Ben T

How To Sell Clothes Online

Selling clothes online is a lot easier than you think. You have the potential to make back hundreds – even thousands – of dollars from selling your clothes. By selling your unwanted clothes online, you’re reaching a way larger audience than you would by selling locally. And you’ll get more bang for your buck compared to hosting a garage sale or exchanging items at your local thrift store. Even though you aren’t donating all those old clothes to Goodwill or the Salvation Army, you’re still a good person. By selling your unwanted clothes online, you’re recycling, reducing carbon emissions and waste, and you’re not contributing to the toxic and destructive culture that is fast-fashion. You may consider selling your clothes

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Melissa

How We’re Handling A Sudden Loss Of Income

In the United States many individuals are currently out of work because the government considers their job or business non-essential, or impossible to carry out while maintaining social distancing.  My husband works for a local university and has been home working for weeks now.  I honestly didn’t look ahead enough to see how much universities would be impacted, but that became very obvious to me when my husband’s employer sent an email that he would have to take 39 furlough days over the next year.  Essentially, he is losing two months’ income over the next year.  While I’m still very thankful that he has a job, we had to do some scrambling to make our budget work.  Here’s how we’re handling a sudden loss of income. How

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Melissa

Why Most Money Challenges Don’t Work And What Does

Here we are, at the beginning of another new year.  One of the major New Year’s resolutions that many people make, behind losing weight and quitting smoking, is saving more money.  To that end, you’ll likely find hundreds of webpages filled with money challenges.  However, save your time.  Most money challenges don’t work, but there is a strategy that does work. Money Challenges You Might See There are many money challenges you’ll likely see if you search the web. Save Your $5 Bills One is to use cash for all of your purchases and then, every time you get a $5 bill in change, save it. By the end of the year, you should have at least $1,000. Save Your Change Another money challenge again urges you

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Derek ,

Where to Invest Your Money

The stock market was down nearly 40{7dabfd103aa443fce219eea47f0f346a11a54ce587a1a0cbb74f06b9f7a304ca} in early 2020. I bought as much as I could at the bottom, but now we’re already back to the top again. With all the uncertainty, the stock market just doesn’t seem like the best place to invest anymore. So, as we head into a new year, I’ve got the same question that the rest of you probably have…Where to invest your money in 2021! The Disclaimer… I’m a financial analyst by day and a personal finance blogger by night. I’ve been in and around the finance arena for over a decade. The actions and thoughts below are my own and actually stem from conversations I’ve had with many other millionaires. However, I am not

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Kerry K. Taylor

The 9 Best Toys of All Time Don’t Cost a Thing

Having trouble viewing this? CLICK HERE <!– Content Layout –> The 9 Best Toys of All Time Don’t Cost a Thing Babies & Kids, Holidays The best toys of all time have nothing to do with trends, brands, or limited editions. They can’t be bought or sold. The best toys never go out of style. Read More… <!– Footer copyright and linkage –> The Squawkfox Blog is by Kerry K. Taylor www.squawkfox.com Copyright © 2020 Squawkfox.com. All rights reserved.

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IRS Suspects Russian Identity Thieves In Data Breach

(Jimmybionic)You may remember that the Internal Revenue Service announced late yesterday that about 100,000 taxpayers’ personal information was breached when thieves armed with their personal information were able to log in to the IRS transcript system and extract even more sensitive information about their victims. Today, we learned that the IRS suspects that an organized group of hackers out of Russia are responsible for the 200,000 attempts to extract taxpayer data. The Associated Press is reporting this based on information from IRS officials who aren’t authorized to talk to the media on the record, but who are familiar with the investigation. The thieves already had to have some information about the planned victims, since they needed personal data such as name, street address, and Social Security number to

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Apple Working On Fix For Text That Instantly Crashes iPhones

You just KNOW your cat would text you that string, if it could text. (J)It sounds like something out of a horror movie…if mobile phones watched horror movies. A certain string of Arabic characters, when sent to an iPhone, can crash the device and force it to restart immediately. It’s a hilarious prank, but also a nasty security flaw that could disrupt important phone calls. We’re not going to tell you what that string is, because we’re not evil, but the problem is in how the iPhone’s notifications handle certain characters. The issue applies to the Apple Watch as well, since the smart watch is effectively a notifications-showing device. The good news for people with prankster friends is that Apple is

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ThinkGeek’s Parent Company Says A New Suitor Has Followed Hot Topic Into The Bidding Ring

What’s a little retail merger romance without a love triangle thrown in for good measure? After the news yesterday Hot Topic was buying online retailer ThinkGeek’s parent company GeekNet in a deal worth $122 million, the purveyor of sci-fi curiosities and comic book inspirations says another suitor has thrown in a bid to buy it. On Wednesday, Geeknet confirmed that it’d received an unsolicited offer from a strategic buyer that remains nameless, to buy all oustanding common stock for $20 per share in cash. That’s in comparison to the $17.50 per share offer Hot Topic threw down on Tuesday. It’s now up to Geeknet’s board of directors to consult legal teams and financial advisors to mull over this latest proposal.

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Fed Survey Finds Most Consumers Are Happy With Their Finances, Despite Lack Of Retirement Savings

(frankieleon) As the economy continues to bounce back from the Great Recession, consumers have adopted a more optimistic outlook when it comes to their finances despite the fact that a third of the country has no savings put away for the future, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve. The 2014 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking [PDF] points out that over the past year individuals and families have experienced mild improvements in their overall well-being, leading to an increase in optimism for the long-term. Over the past year, consumers’ feeling about their financial situation has improved. According to the report, which surveyed 5,800 respondents in October 2014, a majority of Americans – about 65{7dabfd103aa443fce219eea47f0f346a11a54ce587a1a0cbb74f06b9f7a304ca} – are either “doing okay” or “living comfortably” financially,

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30 People Kicked Out Of Hotel After Scuffle Over Waffle Iron

(Mr. Jose Gonzalez)Few people are very amiable before breakfast, but things got really out of hand this week at a hotel in Michigan. A brawl of Chuck E. Cheese proportions broke out during breakfast at a hotel in Pere Marquette Township, Michigan. Two women began an argument over whose turn it was to make a waffle at the hotel’s breakfast bar. How do 30 people fight over one waffle? Hotel employees called the local sheriff’s department and walked in to find what they called “a large group of people arguing over the waffle maker.” Police recounted that the dispute apparently began when one woman asked another whether she was using the waffle iron at that moment. When she didn’t respond, the first woman

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