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The holiday season always reminds me that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. My kids start winter break thrilled—new toys to play with, days at home, permission to veg out. But by the ...

Struggling to cover monthly bills or watching your bank balance dip into single digits is stressful, but financial trouble doesn’t always start with a major crisis. You don’t have to be completely ...