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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
By Rachel Yoshida
When you have children, the one thing that almost every parent has to do is work. Whether you are a one parent or two parent household, someone has to look after the children. If you have children and work, then you realize how expensive providing care for one can child can be and when you have two or three, well, it can almost make working not even worth it when almost everything you make must go to pay for this child care.
With families that are struggling just to make ends meet, paying for child care is a real issue. It ranks right up there with buying groceries and paying the rent or mortgage. There might be some people who are lucky enough to have a relative or friend that will watch their kids at a discounted rate, but that is not so for everyone. It is usually a daycare facility that they will have to engage.
Child care can cost one hundred dollars per week per child and even more in some places. What can a parent do if they only make $500 a week and have 3 children? It is impossible. It |
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
By Rachel Yoshida
If you pay attention to the news, you know that gasoline for our vehicles is only getting more and more expensive with each passing day. There are more ways to save money on gas than you may realize and we have quite a few to help you out with.
Try not to drive around with more things in your vehicle than you need. This includes items that you can carry on your luggage rack or in your trunk. This can really reduce the gas mileage that your vehicle can get, so avoid loading it down with more stuff than you have to.
Premium gas does not really give you any better gas mileage than normal unleaded gas, so unless your vehicle requires premium, use unleaded. It's usually significantly cheaper.
Driving at a constant speed can also help you out. This is why vehicles get less gas mileage in the city than they do out on the highway or the freeway. Stopping and going reduces your gas mileage a lot.
If you have to wait on someone to get out of a store or come out and |
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