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Lauren May is a freelance writer and full-time mom living her best life on a budget.

10 Cheap Homemade Gift Basket Ideas

Affordable and creative gift set ideas

Having trouble coming up with a good gift idea for your Secret Santa, a coworker, or your child’s teacher? These cheap and easy ideas for gift packages are a fun way to give something that’s both thoughtful and useful. When it comes to homemade gift basket ideas, it helps to get creative. Making homemade gift […]

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4 Alternatives to Bank Borrowing to Offset Business Invoice Losses

Many small and medium business owners are finding that they spend an increasingly large portion of their time chasing money from unpaid or late paid invoices. This, in turn, hurts their profitability, as it takes longer to chase down an invoice than it does to just have it paid as agreed. In fact, according to

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Millionaire Mansions Turned Haunted Houses

Haunted Mansions in America

Happy Halloween! As I was trying to come up with a way to tie in personal finance with the holiday for a festive post, I found inspiration from one of my favorite spooky shows, Ghost Adventures. If you’ve never seen it, it’s about 3 guys who go around the country investigating supposedly haunted places. A

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3 Little Known Ways to Save Money Effortlessly

Little known ways to save more money

Guest Post by Simon Cave of The Becomer Saving money is a challenge because of the effort it requires. You have to track your expenses, constantly keep an eye on your bank account, think about your monthly bills, deal with the unexpected expenses, etc. It’s a lot to keep up with! Luckily, we’ve got 3 genius

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