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How I Finally Learned to Stop Bleeding Money

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“Turn off the lights.” “Why would you go out and spend money for coffee?” I grew up middle-class in the 1950s with a litany of lines like that from my Depression-era mother. Usually, I didn’t listen to them. But now that I’m 70 and figuring out ways to… Continue reading →

How I Finally Learned to Stop Bleeding Money

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“Turn off the lights.” “Why would you go out and spend money for coffee?” I grew up middle-class in the 1950s with a litany of lines like that from my Depression-era mother. Usually, I didn’t listen to them. But now that I’m 70 and figuring out ways to… Continue reading →

Shopping Made Easier for Family Caregivers

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When it comes to shopping, Southern California e-commerce marketplace senior executive Mary Hannon is an expert. But when Hannon became a caregiver in her 50s for her 80-year-old mom with mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease, she realized she needed to look a… Continue reading →

11 Ways to Outsmart Marketers at Their Pricing Games

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Whether you call it dynamic pricing, surge pricing, demand pricing or time-based pricing, marketers’ maddening practice of changing prices according to demand and supply is here to stay. Long practiced in the travel and hospitality industries, this sys… Continue reading →