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Your 401(k) match is a raise you have to go claim

The money's sitting in your benefits portal behind a formula nobody reads, and the default settings are tuned low enough that you'll walk right past it.

GuideMarriageCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

How to Know You Need a Marriage Counselor and How to Find One

Most couples wait years too long, then pick the first name their insurance spits out. Do it the other way around.

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GuideDatingMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Tell Her What You Owe Before You Buy The Ring

A one-page money disclosure, done at a kitchen table, months before you propose. What goes on the page and what to do when hers is worse than yours.

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Cars6 min read

Sell Your Car Yourself and Keep the Dealer's Margin

The private sale is worth thousands more than a trade-in, and most of that money is earned in the two hours before you list.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideMarriageJosh HalloranSep 23, 20265 min

Book Premarital Counseling Before You Book the Venue

Six sessions with a pastor or counselor will tell you more about your marriage than any wedding website ever will. What it covers, what it costs, what goes wrong.

GuideTradesRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Price the Job So You Actually Keep the Money

Busy and broke is a pricing problem, not a work problem. Do the overhead math, use the divisor, and stop bidding against the cheapest guy in town.

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GuideCarsDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

What a Classic Car Actually Costs You Every Year

The purchase price is the cheap part. Insurance, storage and the stuff nobody warns you about is where the money actually goes.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

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

GuideMarriageMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

What Couples Married Fifty Years Do That The Rest Of Us Skip

Fifty years is about 18,260 days. Nobody gets there on chemistry. Here are the small habits that carry the ones who are still friends.

GuideCommunityRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Pick Three Local Businesses and Give Them Your Regular Money

The December splurge at the gift shop doesn't keep anybody's doors open. Predictable monthly spending does, and so do four other things most customers never think to do.

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GuideCarsDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Pull Your Own Check Engine Code in Ten Minutes

A twenty-dollar scanner and a parking space is all it takes to find out whether that light means a loose gas cap or a tow truck.

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GuideMarriageCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

How Trust Actually Gets Rebuilt After You Break It

Forgiveness can happen in an afternoon. Trust takes a year of small kept promises, and there's no way to speed it up.

Poll

How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideCommunityRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

How to Raise Money for a Cause Without Wearing Out Your Friends

Mass-posting the link raises about $300 and costs you goodwill. Asking forty people one at a time raises real money and keeps every friendship intact.

GuideMilitary & VetsNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

How to Build a Marriage Around a 24/48 Schedule

Sleep, the wall calendar, the first twenty minutes home, and the money nobody budgets right. What actually works when the shift runs your house.

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GuideMarriageCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Protecting the Team After the Kids Arrive

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Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

Community6 min

How to Check Where Your Charity Dollars Actually Go

Military & Vets6 min

What Military Retirement Pay Actually Comes To

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GuideMarriageRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Joint Accounts or Separate, and How to Not Resent It

The account structure isn't what's wrecking your marriage's finances. Secrecy is. A practical setup for couples who want to stop fighting about receipts.