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Quickly crafting delicious and healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners is easy when you have these meal-planning tools on your side.
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Keeping your colored hair shiny and rich isn't easy, but it can be. Just use any of these shampoos for color-treated hair and your color will last and last.
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Your body has a clock of its own, and if you pick the wrong time do some tasks, you'll do them poorly — and feel poorly while doing them.
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The Secret Confessions of Employees
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Retail Therapy: The Benefits of Shopping
"Retail therapy" — shopping to help you feel better — is typically viewed with scorn. But some recent findings suggest that shopping can make you happy...if you do it right.
7 Habits That Are Quietly Making You Fat (and Have Nothing to Do With Eating)
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Your Flight Was Canceled. Now What?
Canceled flights are a total travel bummer. Avoid an airport temper tantrum by following these steps.
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Late adopters get to choose from tested products, pay better prices, and avoid hidden costs in the new and trendy.
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Cheap Smartphones: Which Ones Are Worth It?
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The Enemies of Frugality
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My Number One Tip for College Students
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6 Kinds of Insurance That Aren't Worth It -- And What to Do Instead
Logic tends to get overlooked when it comes to "better safe than sorry." But for these six types of insurance, safer simply isn't worth the cost.
10 Money Goals You Should Set for the Holidays
The holidays can blindside your bank account. This year, make it a goal to be kind to your finances!
How to Get the Most Out of Your Secured Credit Card
It takes credit to build credit — one of life's great ironies. To build a good rating, don't be afraid to turn to a good secured credit card.