Reader Mailbag #24. Did you like this article? You can get the complete text of all the latest articles at The Simple Dollar in your email inbox each morning by entering your email address below. Your address will only be used for mailing ..... With my savings I was still able to take a year off, then went back to school for a second (low-paying) career, paying all my own expenses. After 10 years at the university my husband was laid off, and didn't find employment for a ...

A friend of mine wrote a guest post on The Simple Dollar about such costs and she basically concluded that the first child is a wash and that the second child generates very nice savings, even with all sorts of costs figured in. ...

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Question for the next reader mailbag: What did you think of the LOST finale? It's catching a lot of flak for leaving so many questions unanswered (and even being a little ambiguous about questions it DID purport to answer). ... When one of my college roommates got married, I knew they didn't need ordinary kitchen stuff, since they'd each been living off campus for over a year. But I also knew she hadn't done much cooking. So my gift to her was a big spice rack, ...

I would strongly encourage you to check out some of the many books I've reviewed on The Simple Dollar. Almost universally, they're good – though I've reviewed a couple of blatant train wrecks, too. Additional selections really largely ...

I've been a follower of The Simple Dollar for 4 years now. I paid off $15000 in debt incurred from starting a nonprofit and paying its bills when it couldn't afford to, and being caught in the middle of having to pay my own bills. ...