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How-Tuesday: How to Prepare Your Home for Summer

We always hear about preparing our home for the colder months - to prevent higher heating costs, frozen pipes, and other cold-weather tragedies, but it's equally important to prepare your home for the heat in order to save money and stress from potential seasonal-related damages and extra energy costs. If you're living in the Midwest, here are a few things you'll want to get in order over the next couple of weeks.

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Personal Finance

Dear 3Rivers: How Can I Give a Special Wedding Gift Without Breaking the Bank?

It's easy to feel like if you don't get the flashiest wedding gift possible, your offering won't be as memorable or as appreciated as the rest. That's completely not true. If you can't afford to purchase one of the items the couple has requested in their registries, you've still got plenty options that will wow them.

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Personal Finance

Thrifty Thursday: Make-Ahead Freezer Meals

Freezer meal recipes are taking over the wonderful world of Pinterest and lifestyle blogs - for good reason. Making meals that you can freeze and heat up later saves you not only time, but a lot of money, too. Most make-ahead recipes only cost a few dollars to prepare!

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Personal Finance

Money Minutes: Amortization

If you’ve purchased a car or a home before, you’ve likely heard the term Amortization, but if you still don’t fully understand what it means, you’re not alone.

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Personal Finance

Student Life: What You Need to Know About Work-Study

It’s that time of year! I bet a lot of you are receiving your award letters in the mail. Within them, you might see a line that says you are eligible for money through a grant called “Federal Work-Study.” Do you know what it means? Well I am here to explain to you just what the Federal Work-Study program is, because unlike most grants, you have work for this money.

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Student Options College & Trade School Preparation

Dear 3Rivers: Should I Co-Sign My Friend’s Loan?

Mingling money with friends and family is always a tough call. On one hand, you want nothing more than to help them out, but on the other, finances are always sensitive subject. When it comes to cosigning, it’s a legitimate fear that you might end up being left for broke because of someone else’s inability to pay, and ruin your relationship as a result.

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Student Loans Personal Finance