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Like everyone else these days, I’m dreaming of being Julia Roberts and spending a year traveling around the world indulging my passions and eating, praying and loving. Wait a minute! I already did that, though I did not end up with Javier Bardem or spiritual enlightenment. The pasta and gelato were good. Times have changed since I [...]  When I was a little girl, once or twice a year we’d get a big box of clothes in the mail from friends of my parents who had daughters slightly older than my sister and I. My parents would be thrilled, thinking of all the money they’d saved on kids’ clothes. I was less enthusiastic until [...] I rarely need medication, so I wasn’t prepared for the price the first time I had a prescription to fill after signing up for my $5,000-deductible health-insurance plan. Co-payment for a tiny bottle of eye drops: $94. Ouch. And I mean the bill, not the eye drops. United Way of Miami-Dade has partnered with a service called [...] I’m surprised that so many of my friends and relatives are still doling out money on demand to their teenagers: $20 for pizza and a movie, $10 for a school field trip, $5 for lunch. If the kids don’t have a budget, how can they learn to live within one? Maybe it’s time for a New [...] Back when I was putting myself through college in the 1970s, and lunch was a major investment, nothing was so annoying as spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks that ended up never being used in the class. After a few semesters, I figured out how to save some money: I quit buying textbooks, or at least [...] It’s the dog days of summer (or, at my house, the cat days), and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau has come up with a major collection of deals for both residents and visitors. Most of the deals in the 4-4-3 promotion give you four (tickets, nights, meals, etc.) of something for the price of [...] |
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