The Outlier Model

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Changing your last name after marriage

Changing your last name, marriage, wedding

CF / March 14th, 2013 / 26 Comments

Marriage is associated with a lot of things – family, love, children, and weddings, to name a few. It’s also the moment when many young women leave behind their family name and take on their husband’s family name. A few years ago, a study presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting found that 70% of Americans believe that a bride should take her...

Doing my 2012 Taxes with Turbo Tax

CF / March 11th, 2013 / 25 Comments

For the past several years, I have done my taxes using the Turbo Tax software. (Before that, I was a strictly pencil and paper tax form person! Oh the mistakes I made…) I like it for it’s simplicity, ease of use and relatively quick turnover. You can use the software via the online portal and not pay for it until after you have completed your taxes. Usually it’s a pretty...

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Updates: March 3 -9

self directed brokerage account, gardening, personal finance blogs, personal finance post, financial article, financial blog

Brian / March 9th, 2013 / 5 Comments

Don’t forget to enter our exclusive, Facebook only contest! Head over to our Facebook Page for details and you could win an iPod shuffle. We’re also co-hosting a Canon Rebel DSLR camera giveaway, don’t forget to enter! After a successful blogger meet up last week, we’re spending this weekend getting some mundane tasks done. As we wrote about in our goal setting post, we’re...

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Diamonds in Disguise

pay off debts, financial responsibility, personal loans

Guest / March 8th, 2013 / No Comments

This is a guest post. If you’re interested in guest posting with us, read our policy. People take out personal loans for all kinds of reasons. Some do so to pay for a holiday or go on shopping trips to places like New York. If they’re expats, they may take them out to cover initial expenses while settling in a new country. Some just use them to decorate the house or pay off debts, although this...

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