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It’s still that time of year when the girl scouts are out and about selling cookies.  We always buy a few boxes because we love helping the girls.  And we love the cookies too.  But I had trouble finding a table I could buy from last weekend because I was rushing around shopping. My sister then told me about this wonderful lookup page on the Girl Scouts’ website.  You type in your zip code and…

Option Trading for Women

My sister recommended this book to me and I am deciding if I should read it. It’s supposed to be very good. But my husband and I don’t invest in the stock market beyond our 401(k) plans. Options trading has always seemed very risky to me. I asked my brother what he thinks of options trading and he said that if Warren Buffett can lose $500 million trading options then what chance have we?  I…

How to Save 200 Dollars in Ten Days

It just occurred to me that I have been eating out too much.  My husband and I sometimes buy fast food for the family when we are running late or not feeling well.  And that has become a habit because the family went through a bad cold over the holidays.  Somewhere along the way we just started buying KFC and hamburgers because it was convenient. But I added up our household expenses yesterday and realized…