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Best Money Tips: How To Win Sweepstakes

Today, we share tips to help you bag you next contests or sweepstakes, to-do's to keep your family and home safe over the holidays, instructions for a DIY book safe, and more.

Best Money Tips: How to Handle Life's Speed Bumps

Today, we share tips to help you get over life's speed bumps, ways improve the gas mileage of your car, and handy uses for charcoal!

Best Money Tips: Get an Inexpensive Workout

Today we found some great articles on inexpensive ways to get a workout, how to have a successful garage sale, and how to buy more house for less money.

Crowding Out Bad Debt

Short of "payment in advance" terms, the only way to protect yourself from slow paying leeches and outright deadbeats is to have a good credit management process in place.

Creating Business Contracts That Won't Get You Sued

To ensure your business is truly protected by the contracts you use, you need to create contacts that are specific to how your company does business.

Customer Ideas to Ignore

Your customers' ideas can be your greatest inspiration...or the source of your failures. These ideas are better left at the bottom of the suggestion box.

Best Money Tips: Ways to Stop Wasting Food

Today we found some great articles on ways to stop wasting food, how to save more when shopping online, and stupid things that improve your quality of life.

4 Ways to Defend Your Phone from Hackers

You may have lots of sensitive business data in your voicemail inbox. How safe is it?

Best Money Tips: Smart Ways to Increase Your Net Worth

Today we found articles on smart ways to improve your net worth, how to get the most money selling your used goods, and gorgeous ornaments that cost almost nothing to make.

10 Small Business Money Myths to Reconsider

Sometimes it's smart business to go with tried and true solutions to common financial questions. But what if those old solutions don't provide the right answers?

7 Easy Ways to Invest in China

China's economy just keeps on growing and making people richer. Here's how an average investor like you can get in on it.

Overcoming the Financial Difficulties of Health Hurdles: Highlights from Our Chat with Family Reach and FFP

Don't miss the highlights from our chat with Family Reach on how to overcome the financial difficulties of health hurdles.

Best Money Tips: Retirement Questions People Forget to Ask

Today we found some stellar articles on important (but often forgotten) retirement questions, easy part-time jobs, and work-life balance tips.

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Poem on opting out

A while back I wrote a piece on Opting out of the money economy, a topic I've long been interested in. Because of that long inte

To Tax or Not To Tax: That Is The Money Market Question

As America’s love affair with self-investing continues to grow, so does our fascination with tax-free accounts. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.

Ask the Readers: Do You Grow Your Own Food?

Tell us whether you grow your own food and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

Ask the Readers: How Do You Save on Gas?

Tell us how you save on gas, and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

Ask the Readers: What Are Your Vacation Priorities?

Tell us about your vacation priorities and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

6 Questions to Ask Before You Quit Your Job

Wait! Before you give your two-week notice, make sure you're leaving for the right reasons.