Dreaming of hitting the jackpot? Prepare to pay up.

Lottery fever just swept the country (again) to the tune of half a billion dollars this time. And who hasn’t daydreamed about what they’d do if they found themselves holding the winning ticket – frosty mai tai on the beach, anyone? And yes, …

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Ramona: Saver [seyv’er], noun: Someone who has a habit of saving.

How do you define being a Saver? Here’s what Ramona – a non-profit accountant and freelance writer who’s still paying off her ridiculously huge student loans – had to say about our Question of the Month. This is how the …

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Hooray for Hollywood, boo for price-gouged moviegoers.

You know the scenario. You’ve purchased your movie ticket and you’re headed to the concession stand. You prepare to stand a good 10 minutes in line. You wait patiently, eyeing the somewhat overwhelming selection of goodies as the awkward 16-year-old …

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The tax man cometh. You ready?

Right up there with root canals in the pantheon of life’s most dreaded activities is something that even good oral hygiene can’t save us from: tax returns. Yep, it’s that time of year again. The season where we either methodically …

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Keep your cash from getting guzzled as fast as your gas.

The good news? Indicators are showing that the economy is on the rise. The bad news? So are gas prices. Fast. In fact, 2011 was the priciest year in history for gas – and there’s no indication that the end …

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Slow and steady: it’s not sexy, but it sure wins the saving race.

Way back in ’66, when a pair of iconic singer-songwriters crooned that we should slow down (you know, because we’re moving too fast), little did the groovy duo know that they were onto something big. Spurred by the start of …

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It’s time to have ‘the talk’ with your kids – the money talk.

The birds and the bees. The truth about Santa. Even the admission that you have no clue what purpose learning algebra serves. These are all sweaty-palmed “talks” that all parents inevitably have with their kids – sobs, eye-rolls and a …

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Want to know what your future Saver self will look like?

It’s hard to fight the lure of instant gratification. Even the best of us battle with putting off a smaller reward today so that we can enjoy a larger payoff in the future. We see it a lot with dieting. …

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