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• We wish happiness (and kinder critics) for MP Dunleavey

  Posted Jun 17 2008, 11:19 AM by Karen Datko
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  Filed under: debt, spending, savings, Karen Datko, MP Dunleavey
  Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money

  Here's a little snapshot of reality we never thought we'd see: MP Dunleavey owns fewer pairs of jeans than we do. (She has one; we have two.)

  That factlet about the often loved, sometimes maligned New York Times and MSN Money personal-finance writer was contained in an e-mail interview she did with U.S. News & World Report. We've been among those who have sometimes wondered about MP's spending choices, particularly when she bought a larger house, but that wardrobe confession compelled us to give her another look.   Read More...

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• Sometimes it's lonely at the top

  Posted Dec 31 2007, 02:09 PM by Karen Datko
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  Filed under: debt, savings, homes, home buying, home financing, MP Dunleavey
  Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money

  Popular MSN Money and New York Times columnist MP Dunleavey got a heap of criticism after she and her husband bought a house that seemed more than they could readily afford. Dunleavey's recent explanation at MSN Money has not silenced all of her critics. This appears to be the price you pay when you live your financial life out in the open.   Read More...

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• Did she buy too much house?

  Posted Dec 03 2007, 06:46 AM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: debt, housing, spending, savings, home buying, MP Dunleavey
  Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money

  It takes courage to live your financial life in the open. That's why Boston Gal's Open Wallet likes MSN Money and New York Times columnist MP Dunleavey. What Boston Gal doesn't like is the decision by Dunleavey and her husband to buy their dream home at a much higher price than they had calculated they could afford. Dunleavey, leader of the Women in Red at MSN Money, wrote about her possible buyer's remorse in The New York Times. "You would think that someone who writes about money for a living would know how to draw a clear line between what’s affordable and what’s not. And I do," MP wrote. "The trouble is that I’m also capable of staring at that line for so long, in this light or that one, that the distinctions start to blur."   Read More...

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