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	<title>Personal Finance Advice &#187; Jeffrey Strain</title>
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		<title>January Review: Day 32 &amp; 33</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2013/02/03/january-review-day-32-33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage Challenge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saving Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My current house sitting job ends tomorrow, so a good part of the day was spent cleaning the place to make it look better on their return. Washing, vacuuming, cleaning and all that fun stuff. While doing all that, I began to reflect what I was able to do the first month. The only major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Want That: Day 30 &amp; 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[buying stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely get the consumer bug. Anyone that knows me well also know that if you want to take me shopping, chances are you&#8217;re going to have to drag me screaming and yelling the entire way. I rarely &#8220;lust&#8221; after any gadgets. Even my computer which I spend most days on is nothing more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye-Bye $485: Day 29</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2013/01/31/bye-bye-485-day-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clicking noise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clutch trouble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high deductible plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reality set in today as I received my monthly health insurance bill: a painful $485. That will be nearly $6,000 a year out of the $17,000 budget or about one-third of all the money I have. This makes it very easy to understand why most people on a minimum wage simply choose to go without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel of Consumption, The Zuckerberg Tax, Teaching Money to Preschoolers and Carnivals</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2012/02/12/the-gospel-of-consumption-the-zuckerberg-tax-teaching-money-to-preschoolers-and-carnivals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pfadvice.com/2012/02/12/the-gospel-of-consumption-the-zuckerberg-tax-teaching-money-to-preschoolers-and-carnivals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carnivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the articles that I came across this past week that peaked my interest: The Gospel of Consumption: This is an interesting read about how companies figured out how to make us the consumers that we are. &#8220;By the late 1920s, Americaâ€™s business and political elite had found a way to defuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Holiday Traditions</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2010/12/14/creating-holiday-traditions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a challenge. Think back to your childhood and try to remember all the toys that you received every year while you were growing up for Christmas. While you probably can remember one or two over the years, chances are you don&#8217;t remember each one in detail. Now think back to some of the holiday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Make Money Sitting Around</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/08/01/how-to-make-money-sitting-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Money]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[earning extra income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda D. I&#8217;m able to sock away an average of $700 a month by sitting around. I wish I could say that I was bright enough to have come up with the way to sit and earn money, but the reality is that it kind of fell into my lap. This is what happened. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Gardening Really Save You Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/04/27/does-gardening-really-save-you-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/04/27/does-gardening-really-save-you-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food / Groceries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interest in gardening is on the rise as people, fed up with rising prices and declining safety and quality standards, seek to produce more of their own food. Even the President has started a garden at the White House. While there is little argument that a properly tended garden raised without a lot of pesticides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flu Financial Preparations Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/04/25/bird-flu-financial-preparations-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/04/25/bird-flu-financial-preparations-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avian flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bird flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu preparations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico swine flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editors Note: With the Mexican swine flu making headlines, a trip this weekend found my local drug store had nearly run out of surgical masks &#8211; if you haven&#8217;t already made preparations, it&#8217;s certainly the time to do it while supplies are still available. This is an article that was written toward preparing for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week in Review Financial Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/01/18/week-in-review-financial-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/01/18/week-in-review-financial-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frugality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week: Circuit City to liquidate remaining U.S. stores Congress considers ‘cash for clunkers&#8217; proposal This is why you continue to get those Nigerian scam emails Chef Amanda Freitag Tries To Prep Family-Friendly Dinner On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Financial Reading Update</title>
		<link>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/01/11/weekend-financial-reading-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/01/11/weekend-financial-reading-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial reading]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week: WSJ Tries Blaming Economic Woes on People Being Frugal Porn industry seeks federal bailout If You Don&#8217;t Need It, It&#8217;s Not A Bargain At All Lenders digging up more than your credit score [...]]]></description>
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