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11 surefire ways to waste money during the holidays 11/04/2015 07:00pm • Retailers use "can't miss" sales, dazzling displays, sweet holiday scents and music to entice people to spend more money during the holiday season than at any other time of year. And it works. Holiday sales are expected to reach $630.5 billion in 2015, a 3.7 percent increase over last year, accordin When Your Partner Has Prostate Cancer 11/04/2015 07:00pm • Dana Kababik speaks in the first-person plural when talking about her husband's prostate cancer. " We opted for a radical prostatectomy." " We thought it was his best chance for a cure." "If he had a recurrence, we would have other options," says the 54-year-old medical copywriter in Whitehouse, Ne How to Invest in Startups 11/03/2015 07:00pm • Go back to the beginning of Wall Street giants such as Microsoft Corp. (ticker: MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), and you are sure to find a startup phase when founders, friends, family and a handful of lucky outsiders acquired shares for next to nothing. Fortunes have been won this way. Wouldn't 7 inexpensive hostess gift ideas for the holidays 11/03/2015 07:00pm • Whether you're attending a Thanksgiving dinner celebration, a Christmas party or other holiday gathering this year, be the guest your host will remember by bringing along an impressive host or hostess gift. You'll find plenty of sales to shop for small gifts over the biggest shopping season of the y Credit, Mortgages and Your Ability to Buy a Home: It Doesn't Have to Be Scary 11/03/2015 07:00pm • The subprime mortgage crisis is still a wound that hasn't fully healed for many Americans, serving as a cautionary tale against buying a home, The fact that millions of people lost their homes is hard to forget, and many who witnessed the tragedy are leery of entering the market for fear of another How to Navigate Holiday Shopping at the Big Box Stores 11/02/2015 07:00pm • With Halloween behind us, attention will quickly turn to the impending holiday shopping season. Thanksgiving is just three and a half weeks away, and with some families celebrating gift exchanges at this time of year, we have to prepare early. It is important to identify who you are buying for, wha Survey: Americans prefer to use paper coupons 11/02/2015 04:31pm • WASHINGTON — In an increasingly paperless society, more than half of Americans still prefer to use old-fashioned paper coupons, according to a new survey. Sixty-three percent of all U.S. credit and debit cardholders who use coupons say they most frequently get them from newspapers, mailings or Frugal ideas for leftover Halloween candy 11/02/2015 07:00am • Nod along if this sounds familiar: You head to the store and buy more than one bag of candy (maybe because you found a great coupon!) and you anticipate dozens of trick-or-treaters ringing your doorbell on October 31. Then, reality sets in on the morning of November 1, when you can count on one hand 4 Stocks Poised to Benefit From Online Shopping 11/01/2015 07:00pm • Have you made your list and checked it twice? More likely than not, you'll be buying some of your holiday gifts this year online. Almost half (46 percent) of holiday shopping will be done online this year, according to the National Retail Federation's Holiday Consumer Spending survey. Buoyed by an Fees and Charges That Destroy Investors' Portfolios 11/01/2015 07:00pm • Maybe it's the fork-it-over times we live in: ATM fees, airline baggage fees, bombastic credit card late fees. Fees, fees, fees. At least there's no fee to breathe. Yet. The investment world isn't immune to fees, either. So with increasing annoyance -- coupled with fiscal prudence -- investors are How to Save on Holiday Spending Without Being a Scrooge 11/01/2015 07:00pm • Bah humbug, the holidays are approaching but you are broke. What do you do? Do you want to save on holiday spending this year? If you do, then don't do it looking like a Scrooge! There are so many ways to save money on your holiday shopping without looking cheap, so here are some of my top tips on 3 holiday planning tricks to dodge debt 10/30/2015 11:30am • The holidays often arrive with a burst of excitement and end with a crash of fear and despair as people wait with baited breath for the holiday credit card bills to arrive in the mail. If you're looking to avoid that January letdown, consider these tips that can help you plan for expenditures and av What's the Cost of Following Your Conscience? 10/28/2015 08:00pm • You hear it from many shoppers. They want businesses to behave, to be environmentally friendly and to be rock-solid world citizens. They'll even spend more money on those companies, if that's what it takes. 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