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How to Create a Budget: 6 Steps to Get You on the Path to Financial Security

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We all know expenses exist, but the numbers keep adding up—rent, water, trash, electricity, cable, Internet, car insurance, renter’s insurance, gas, cell phone. Check out your expenses from last month and then categorize each transaction. Set goals and adjust your expenses. The cost of building a life isn’t.

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How to Save Money on Your Car Insurance

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Carrying more insurance than your state’s minimum requirements is generally recommended since accidents can get expensive, especially if someone is seriously injured or has a lot of property damage. A deductible is the portion of the repair or medical bills you are responsible for paying if you are found at fault in an accident.

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How Employers Can Support Employees Going Through Menopause at Work

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.” The previously mentioned Mayo Clinic survey also revealed that menopause is having a “major negative impact” on this demographic and their workplace outcomes, calling for improved medical treatments and workplace support systems. It’s just one extra expense that I can’t really afford, but need!” In the survey, 10.8%

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Answering Reader Mail: Can an EA salary support a family?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Always buy the most expensive health insurance you can afford. Also look thru your employee handbook to save as much money as possible with your company matching 401k program and pre-tax contributions, employee discounts and perks, paid on going education, flexible spending accounts, etc. Still, worth repeating! Save, save, and save.

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

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As much as I love my friends and don’t blame them in any way for requesting discounted (or pro bono) services, I realised my principle to be a “good friend&# led me into making some bad business decisions. By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even. This is a given.

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Customer satisfaction getting worse among large retailers

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This cuts down on the overhead; no more expensive medical or life insurance coverage required, pensions, paid holidays or high salaries. Once morale is corrupted by notices of lay-offs and salary cuts, “cheap becomes expensive.&#. So why do we think that customer satisfaction is on the downward slide?

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Customer satisfaction getting worse among large retailers

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This cuts down on the overhead; no more expensive medical or life insurance coverage required, pensions, paid holidays or high salaries. Once morale is corrupted by notices of lay-offs and salary cuts, “cheap becomes expensive.&#. So why do we think that customer satisfaction is on the downward slide?

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