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5 Tax Mistakes That Might Get You Audited

Filing annual or quarterly taxes is often overwhelming and daunting for individuals who are unaware of how to do so and how to do so efficiently. Understanding some of the top potential tax mistakes that may get you audited is a way to ensure you are moving forward in the right direction whether you are

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How to Make Easy Money with Electronic Recycling

Technology is advancing at an increasingly fast pace, which causes the turnover for electronics to also increase. New electronics come out every few months and many only last for 2-4 years before you have to replace it. The average lifespan of a smart phone is 18 months. The average lifespan of a desktop computer is

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4 People That Bobbi Kristina’s Coma Reminds Us We Need To Know

by Amanda Brown On the morning of Saturday January 31, 2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown was found face down and unresponsive in the bathtub of her home in Atlanta, Georgia. After being rushed to the hospital and placed in a medically induced coma, Bobbi Kristina, remains on life support in the ICU at Emory Hospital.  Not much else

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How I Used Living Social to Help Me With My Seasonal Depression

I am not sure about you, but I get a major case of the sads during the winter. Just last Sunday, I was watching Akeelah and the Bee and found myself bawling—deep belly tears. And I couldn’t stop myself. I didn’t understand why I was crying, but luckily I’ve learned that part of my journey

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6 Tips to Save and Be Money Savvy While Visiting Friends and Family

The time for college drop offs and summer vacations is fast approaching. It can be very tempting and seem almost unavoidable to spend a lot of money on the travel, accommodations or eating when visiting a different city or place. However, instead of thinking of it as the last large expense of the summer and

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Here’s How I Slashed My Dry Cleaning Bill in (More than) Half with Dryel

So on one of those winter days where I could not get to work, I sat there on  my living room couch coming up with ways to declutter, make some money, and get my life in order. I was itching to prune my wardrobe so I could sell some of my unwanted clothes, see what

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4 Super Important Things to Consider When Starting a Business That No One Likes Talking About

Recently I embarked on full-time entrepreneurship and the road is harder than I expected but way more fulfilling than I ever could have imagined. Since I started this full-time journey I often get questions about how I started FNPhenomenal. Therefore, I decided to compile the 4 things that really helped me at the beginning of

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Do You Need to Create a $500 Cushion Fund Before the Summer?

If you want my honest opinion, an emergency fund should be an amount that has a comma in it, meaning you should have at least $1,000 dollars in your emergency fund for you to take care of life’s uncertain trips, dips, and falls. But, I know for some of us, that $1,000 seems unattainable, makes

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3 Reasons Likes For Likes Is Like Totally Killing Entrepreneur’s Facebook Marketing

If you are an networking entrepreneur on Facebook, you’ve no doubt seen the practice of “likes for likes.” It exists on other platforms, too. Twitter has “follow for a follow”; bloggers do “comments for comments.” The practice is in place to get your numbers up so you look more popular to the social media platforms

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7 Alternatives to Graduate School That Won’t Make You Broke or Stress You Out

For years, I dreamed of going to graduate school. During my lunch break and—let’s be honest—during the time that I should have been working, I spent a lot of time researching doctoral programs in Women’s Studies, Sociology, African-American Studies, and Creative Writing. After secretly printing out the schools’ course catalogs and stuffing them quickly into

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