

Here comes the bride!
A friend of a friend has a daughter who is getting married next Labor Day and the hunt for the wedding dress in on! The budget for the gown? A whopping $5,000!
And since the first day of this shopping adventure coincided with the weekend I spent with my divorced sister, who spent a good portion of our time together picking my ex-CPA…
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Though this photo is about the shoes, (let us not forget to show our reverence to the pretty vintage shoes here) I really want to talk about what’s adorning these legs.
Flashy hosiery is timeless. Any of these could be worn today and spectators would believe that they’re brand new (though they are all probably being held up by garters and the fabric lacks as much…
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ABC News reports that there are 84,000 centenarians living in the United States—that’s folks who have reached the ripe ol’ age of 100 years or more. And when I think of all the changes they’ve seen in their lifetimes, I often wonder if they feel like they’ve been characters living in a science fiction novel.
After all, in the past 100 years they’ve witnessed the birth…
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If you’re lucky enough to be the recipient of an unexpected financial windfall of, ooooh, let’s say, $9,000, any self-respecting financial advisor would strongly urge you to act sensibly and invest your riches in a stock market index fund or a blue-chip stock with a solid record of dividends.
I’ve never once heard Suze Orman or any other financial whiz suggest that you splurge on something…
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Written on
June 14, 2010 by
Mary Kincaid in
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