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7 Ways to Save Money by Simplifying Your Life

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Convenience should make life easier, but you regularly replace products, waste your money and end up damaging the environment and perhaps your own health. Expensive cars need recurring repairs and often some with too much financial red tape. Following fashion trends can get expensive quickly. Do your possessions possess you?

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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And as that fame grew, so did his fortune—which he immediately started giving away, first in a hefty donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, then to the county’s mental health services. His estimated earnings in 2017 were $33 million.) That’s usually a record label expense. Chance the Rapper never had a Plan B.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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The SUCCESS Interview: Puneet Nanda on Disrupting Industries and Making Wellness Products Accessible for All

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I started learning yoga, meditating and kind of improving on my own personal health and goals. I saw that there was a gap, where they had an amazing product, but it was, like, 10 times more expensive than it should have been. in 2017. … Puneet Nanda : I took a sabbatical after that. But then, there was an opportunity.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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Downsize and Organize Your Digital Clutter

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Physical clutter can damage your health. For example, vacation photos might be named “Hawaii-vacation-March-2017). Not only are these files large and expensive to store; you don’t want to have to scroll through hundreds of files to find the photos that are meaningful to you. These women were also more likely to feel depressed.

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6 Commonly Overlooked Tax Deductions to Maximize Your Return

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“Can a dead person deduct medical expenses?” “Can ” These are just a few of the numerous requests Andy Phillips, director for the Tax Institute at H&R Block in Kansas City, Missouri, fields when tax time rolls around, as his clients muddle their way through what can and can’t count as a deductible expense.

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