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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The retirement account you can fund without a paycheck

If you're home with the kids and your husband earns the income, the IRS still lets you put up to $7,000 a year into an account with your name on it.

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The school day isn't six hours of work

Build the business around the hours you actually have, not the ones on the school calendar, and you stop white-knuckling every Thursday.

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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

The workday you can actually run with kids in the house

Stop rebuilding a nine-to-five that doesn't exist in your house, and build the three real windows you've actually got.

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Nine tools, one Saturday, and the repairs you stop paying for

A running toilet is an eight-dollar part and twenty minutes of your time. Start there, and keep going until the house stops winning.

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What actually keeps you moving?

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Tires, fluids and a trunk kit that actually gets you home

The door-jamb sticker, the coin test, the five fluids and the $150 of gear that turns a bad night on the shoulder into an inconvenience.

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Warm rooms are built with lamps, not furniture

The fixes that change how a room feels cost less than a tank of gas, and most people spend their money in the wrong order.

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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Run your business on the hours school actually gives you

The school day isn't six hours. Do the arithmetic, price your work against the real number, and stop working the 9 p.m. shift nobody agreed to.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

The retirement account with your name on it, not his

You can put $7,000 into your own IRA this year without earning a dollar. Here's how the spousal IRA works and what people get wrong.

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

A phone propped on a laundry basket beats any fitness app

Training with a friend over video works, but only if you set the rules before week four, when one of you starts rescheduling.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Four days a week, one chair, and a floor you can get up from

A twenty-five minute home routine for women in their seventies, built around the two things that actually decide how the next decade goes.

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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Skip the crunches and train the core that holds you up

Your midsection's real job is to stop motion, not create it. Five moves, three days a week, and a back that stops complaining by week six.

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Which skill would you most like to learn this year?

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

A corner, three hundred dollars, and enough iron to get strong

Skip the mirror wall and the monthly app. Buy heavy things, a rubber mat, and something you can hang from.

GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The home workout that loads your bones after fifty

Twelve hops, a chair, and a pair of dumbbells you'll outgrow in a month. What thirty-five minutes, three times a week, should actually look like.

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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

The nap-time workout that doesn't wake the baby

Twenty minutes, no equipment, no jumping, no thudding on the floor above her head — and hard enough that you'll feel it tomorrow.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

6 min

Your dumbbells will get too light, and that's the real problem

5 min

The first six weeks after your doctor says you're cleared

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Getting off the floor is the test that matters at seventy

A twenty-minute home routine for women in their seventies, built around steps, groceries and standing up without a hand.

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5 min read

The fifteen minutes before anybody else is awake

A quiet, specific routine you can run in socks on a floor that creaks, plus the three decisions the night before that make it survive a bad week.

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Which woman in your life deserves a thank-you this week?

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