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• Realistic budgeting: The marriage saver

  Posted Mar 06 2008, 07:31 AM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Spending, Credit, Wise Bread, Groceries
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  This post comes from Margaret Garcia-Couoh at partner blog Wise Bread.

  Twelve years ago, a priest who did marriage counseling told me what he saw as the personal truth to marriages that stay together and marriages that break apart. "It's about a little thing," he said, "a little thing called money." No way, I thought. Wouldn't the big things be infidelity, children, catastrophes?

  Nope. Divorce, he informed me, starts in the checkbook.

  Fast forward two marriages and a mortgage later, and darn it if Father Peter wasn't right.   Read More...

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• Is PayPal making impulse buyers of us all?

  Posted Sep 25 2007, 09:17 AM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Spending, Credit, Saving, Wise Bread
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  This post comes from partner blog Wise Bread.

  I’d like to start this article by pointing out that PayPal is a fabulous resource and I use it often. I feel safe buying items, especially items on eBay, with my PayPal account. But over the past few months I’ve noticed that more and more places accept PayPal and I began to wonder: Is this going to create a generation of impulse buyers?

  PayPal was founded in December of 1998. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 and quickly became a phenomenon. Now, with more than 31 million accounts and growing, it’s a quick, easy way to pay for anything from cheap novelties to new cars.

  Initial impulse

  But is it too easy?   Read More...

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