Black Friday arrives at the end of the week, and the timing couldn’t be better. Prices may not be climbing as fast as they were a year ago, but they’re still rising on the basics like groceries, insurance and utilities. Surveys show roughly 70% of shoppers say cost-of-living pressures are ...
Last week, I was offered a free cruise ... to the closing table, specifically for one of my listings. This wasn’t just a one-time offer either; it was offered every day, and more than one per day, on this same home. Intrigued and curious (much like a mosquito to an electric zapper), I read ...
Gearing up to pay for college tuition, approximately $2,800 at Utah State University in 2002, I convinced my boyfriend the best way to get fast cash was to fly to Valdez, Alaska, and can fish for the summer at the Peter Pan Seafood factory. As only an immortal teenager would, I salivated ...
Imagine this. You’re using your own retirement money — money you’ve already worked a lifetime to save — to pay for long-term care. But when tax season comes around, you don’t owe a single penny in income tax on those withdrawals. Sound impossible? It’s not. Thanks to a pair of ...
The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially from consuming too much trivial or unchallenging ...
It started quietly in one corner of the country. In 2022, Washington State rolled out the first program of its kind — a mandatory long-term care insurance tax on workers’ paychecks. The goal? Help residents cover the crushing cost of long-term care. But here’s the catch: If you didn’t ...
