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Personal finance advice needs to factor in lifestyle

What’s the point of saving money if you don’t have any goals? For me, money is a tool that allows me to enjoy life. If you want to work just for the sake of adding digits to your bank account, that’s cool. The thing is that you might burn out because you’re not enjoying what you do. If you don’t have a decent lifestyle, you’re not going to feel good about the money that you do manage to save.

Do You Factor in Lifestyle Into Your Finances?

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(Source: moneycrush.com)


What to Do When You’re the Breadwinner in Your Relationship

Mass media has trumpeted a market research study’s conclusion that young, single, childless, white women living in cities out-earn their male counterparts. Feminists would love to embrace the results, but, in fact, the analysis has many flaws, including the failure to account for educational differences. That hasn’t stopped The New York Times from characterizing this finding as a global “trend” and predicting large scale changes in gender roles.



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What to Do When You’re the Breadwinner in Your Relationship

Mass media has trumpeted a market research study’s conclusion that young, single, childless, white women living in cities out-earn their male counterparts. Feminists would love to embrace the results, but, in fact, the analysis has many flaws, including the failure to account for educational differences. That hasn’t stopped The New York Times from characterizing this finding as a global “trend” and predicting large scale changes in gender roles.

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