A week until Christmas?! These year-end holidays have crept up on me one too many times! I certainly don’t have everybody’s gift bought yet, let alone wrapped! Over the next six days I will have to scramble to get my [...]
December 18, 2013
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I want you to picture the things that you can’t live without. What comes to mind? Certainly water, clothing and shelter. Anything else? I’d like to make the case for credit cards. Just think about trying to live life without [...]
October 9, 2013
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I write a lot about the dangers of credit cards. I have called them “frenemies” and “necessary evils” in the past. I dislike credit cards because a lot of people can’t handle them. They buy, buy, buy and then don’t [...]
August 29, 2012
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Next week I’ll be writing to you from the road. I will be in the great state of New York for a college graduation party. Mr. Patterson’s youngest cousin is graduating and we’re going to the party. We haven’t been [...]
June 20, 2012
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When is the last time you went through your wallet and cleaned it out? It’s usually a task only done once a year (or if you’re like me once every few years. Oops!) When I clean out my wallet I [...]
October 5, 2011
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So one of the most common issues readers email me about is credit cards. I lovingly refer to credit cards as “frenemies.” They disguise themselves as friendly faces with their cash back, rewards points, airlines miles and low interest rates. [...]
February 16, 2011
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