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	<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org</link>
	<description>Thoughts on Economic Freedom</description>
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		<title>Financial Health can Save Your Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people think that money problems are the leading cause of divorce. If you Google the term &#8220;money problems cause of divorce&#8221; you will see many sites claiming just that. In fact, that&#8217;s what I did when starting to write this post. Most of the arguments in my marriage are over money issues. While looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2010/02/10/financial-health-can-save-your-marriage/</link>
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		<title>Ten Dollars a Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten dollars doesn&#8217;t seem like very much. If you&#8217;re like a lot of people, if you found ten dollars on the street it likely would be spent by the end of the day. If you lost ten dollars, it probably wouldn&#8217;t seem like a huge loss. If you spent ten dollars on something you didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/12/03/ten-dollars-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Enforcing accountability?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my Discover bill last month, and oops&#8230; $708??? I&#8217;d gotten in trouble the month before for a $1500 bill, even though my purchases were things for my Barracuda, which my wife had agreed I could start fixing up. Well, you can&#8217;t fix up an old car without spending money on it, and she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/05/13/enforcing-accountability/</link>
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		<title>Adding Injury to Insult</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our card that was canceled last month was one that earned rebate rewards, between 1 and 3%. We used that card a lot, and had earned a little over $200 as of our January statement, which had a little flyer telling us we would receive the rebate coupon with our February statement.
We got our February [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/02/14/adding-injury-to-insult/</link>
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		<title>Freebie Trading for Cash&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because frugality can only get you so far, I&#8217;m always looking for new income streams. Earlier this week, I came across a short post on (link)Christian Personal Finance on trading freebies to earn extra cash. I like free stuff, and I like the idea of bartering or trading &#8211; one of my favorite books when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/02/05/freebie-trading-for-cash/</link>
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		<title>Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ve noticed about most of the personal finance blogs I read is that they tend to shy away from politics. In a way, this makes sense. They are, after all, Personal Finance blogs, not political blogs. Also since people reading the blogs probably have a wide range of political opinions, bloggers may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/02/03/politics/</link>
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		<title>Economic Downturn Hitting Closer to Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife works in the casino industry &#8211; she&#8217;s a poker and table games dealer. Many of her friends are also dealers. The casino industry has been hit pretty hard over the last year. Early in 2008, one of the casinos where many of my wife&#8217;s friends work informed their dealers that all full time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/02/03/economic-downturn-hitting-closer-to-home/</link>
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		<title>Credit Card Customer &#8220;Service&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading how certain credit card companies are tightening up and canceling card accounts that are in good standing for whatever reason. &#8220;Never happen to me,&#8221; I thought &#8211; usually when I read a story like this, there seemed to be an underlying reason &#8211; the account was inactive, something not related to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/02/02/american-express-customer-service/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Eve Bean Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about the holidays is hanging out with family. I especially enjoy eating my mom&#8217;s home cooking. Here is one of her recipes. In spite of the title, this soup is delicious any time of the year, but especially on a cold winter night. Makes about 8 servings. Enjoy!


8 ounces dried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/01/06/christmas-eve-bean-soup/</link>
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		<title>Looking Forward &#8211; Goals for 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a disasterous 2007 (completely my fault), 2008 was a very good year for us financially. 2009 isn&#8217;t starting out to look quite as good though. Our biggest challenge will be to maintain our current level of income. My wife works in the casino industry, which is being hit hard by the recession. They are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbebroke.org/2009/01/02/looking-forward-goals-for-2009/</link>
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