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Posts by Danielle

Coping With A Change In Financial Circumstances

More often than not, when a change in circumstances with your finances occurs, it can have a huge impact on your lifestyle, especially when you have a family. Whether you or your partner has been made redundant, for one reason or another you’ve taken a pay cut, or you’ve separated from your partner and no longer have two income streams coming in, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is that

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Occasional Spending: Tips for Buying the Perfect Gift

I personally love buying gifts; whether it’s for Christmas, Mother’s day or even birthdays, I really enjoy the process of choosing a gift that is perfect for who ever I’m buying it for. Some people struggle with gift buying, whether it’s the financial side or just getting the perfect gift, so I thought it would be handy to make a list of a few tips I use in order to

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Taking A Second Look At Energy In The Home

Wanting to save money in your home is a very common desire, and there is plenty you can do towards that end. So many people fail to appreciate the full range of what you can do, however, and it is always worth looking into. If you are serious about it, then one of the main things you will want to focus on will be improving the way you use energy

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What To Do If You Sell Your House For More Than The Appraisal

In today’s competitive house market, it’s not unusual for people to sell their homes for more than they expect. Two or more groups of buyers might bid for your home in consecutive rounds, each trying to price the other out of the market. But is getting a higher price for your home always a good thing?   The problem comes when the selling price of the home exceeds the value

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5 Blatant Reasons Your Work Performance Is Suffering

File   Anyone with career aspirations has to work hard day in, day out to secure the promotion of their dreams. The thing is, this type of consistency isn’t always realistic, and your performance can dip. Usually, it comes back again after a short while, but sometimes the drop can escalate out of control, putting your promotion at risk. Clearly, you need to react to save your fledgling career. Otherwise,

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Apartment VS House: Which Is The Best Home For You?

More often than not, the decision to live in an apartment or a house is out of our hands; apartments are usually cheaper to rent than houses, so our budget makes the decision for us. When you get to the point where you might be able to afford a down payment on your first home, a house seems more appealing because it’s spacious, there’s room for a family, and it’s

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Stop Working In The Trenches: Free Yourself Up For Higher-Value Tasks

  Workers, freelancers, and solopreneurs have an incredible opportunity to escape the mundane aspects of their work and focus on the stuff that really interests them and matters. But the reality is that most people are still working in the trenches, spending an enormous amount of their time doing things which could quite easily be done by machine or passed on to somebody else. Why is this?   Experts call

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Helpful Tips When Going To College

Making the transition from high school to college can be tricky for some, how you performed at school does not automatically apply during your college years. Good grades may have come to you naturally at school, with college you must earn them. However there are more tips to getting the most out of your college time. Learn handy tips so you can still have the best experience, easing the stress

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Avoid Being Exploited by Your Employer

Pixabay   Work is hardly the most fun thing on the planet even if your boss is the best boss in the world. Regardless of how little we may hate our jobs (which is certainly a more apt way of putting it for most people), the fact is that we perform our duties primarily for one thing: money. The statistics have shown that very few people have any real passion

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Are You Considering a Change of Career?

Work isn’t everything of course, but our jobs are a huge part of our lives. It’s where we spend a massive proportion of our day, and so it’s no wonder that it can define who we are. What’s one of the first questions you ask someone when you meet? Usually, ‘what do you do for a living?’ There’s a reason for this, a person’s job can say a lot about

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