I mentioned during my Cyber Monday Shopping Extravaganza that tonight is our annual gift wrap party. I’m hoping that all of the gifts I ordered online over the last few days arrive by this afternoon, so I can get a jump start on our gift wrapping. Gift Wrap Party If you’ve never been to a [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are having a wonderful day with family and friends! Congrats to Mike E., our winner in the second My Favorite Things giveaway. Hopefully the Foodsaver 2840 will come in handy for Mike and his family this holiday season! My ultimate favorite thing is still coming, so make sure you are [...]

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It’s time for the second giveaway in My Favorite Things. One of my new favorite toys for saving money is the Foodsaver I bought during summer. And what better time to have a Foodsaver handy, with Thanksgiving leftovers just around the corner? I’ll ship one lucky email reader a Foodsaver 2840! (Or if you already [...]

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Congrats to our three winners in the first giveaway of Madison’s Favorite Things: Saskia, Dana, and Robin. They will each receive an Amazon Gift Card just in time for holiday shopping! Don’t forget, there’s more Favorite Things to come, so be sure you are subscribed to daily emails during the holiday season! Announcements Don’t forget [...]

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I have many readers that really don’t care about the finance part of personal finance. They just care about the personal part. So I promised my aunt, who was visiting last weekend, that I’d try to focus on some more personal updates, for those of you that find finance to be truly boring. Or maybe [...]

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