Tag: Finance
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Consumerism and Keeping up with the Joneses
I love learning about personal finance. Every book I read teaches me something new. I’m a book person through and through—podcasts are fine for quick takeaways or buzzwords, but books are where the real substance lives. One book that really hit home for me was Your Money or Your Life. It peeled back the curtain…
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How We Manage Our Subscriptions (Without Letting Them Sneak Up on Us)
You ever check your credit card statement and realize you’ve been charged for a subscription you completely forgot about? Yeah… same. Subscriptions are sneaky. And if you’re not actively managing them, they’ll quietly pile up and start draining your monthly budget. The average U.S. household spends $220 a month on subscriptions. Our total right now?…
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