Erin: Marriage is a financial life-changer.

What’s the biggest thing to happen to you financially? Here’s what Erin – a self-professed insurance geek who’s married to a network security geek – had to say about our Question of the Month. The newly married tend to romanticize …

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Oh, home improvement TV, how you’ve changed my life…

Think home ownership’s something to aspire to, but still out of reach? Here’s what Sarah, a 20-something Savings Associate who loves her weekend-long home-improvement show marathons, says about her change of heart: I’m usually perfectly happy renting an apartment – …

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Money buys technology. Technology buys time. Does time buy happiness?

There’s been much debate on whether money can make you happy. Some contend that happiness comes from within and no amount of zeros at the end of your balance sheet can bring about true joy. Others contend that while “keeping-up-with-the-Joneses” …

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Taxes on your favorite fizzy beverage? It could be in your future.

That wise old sage Ben Franklin famously once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” and never is that more apparent than now, just mere days away from the filing deadline. And …

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Dreaming of hitting the jackpot? Prepare to pay up.

Lottery fever just swept the country (again) to the tune of half a billion dollars this time. And who hasn’t daydreamed about what they’d do if they found themselves holding the winning ticket – frosty mai tai on the beach, anyone? And yes, …

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Hooray for Hollywood, boo for price-gouged moviegoers.

You know the scenario. You’ve purchased your movie ticket and you’re headed to the concession stand. You prepare to stand a good 10 minutes in line. You wait patiently, eyeing the somewhat overwhelming selection of goodies as the awkward 16-year-old …

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The tax man cometh. You ready?

Right up there with root canals in the pantheon of life’s most dreaded activities is something that even good oral hygiene can’t save us from: tax returns. Yep, it’s that time of year again. The season where we either methodically …

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Keep your cash from getting guzzled as fast as your gas.

The good news? Indicators are showing that the economy is on the rise. The bad news? So are gas prices. Fast. In fact, 2011 was the priciest year in history for gas – and there’s no indication that the end …

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