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fizkes/istockphoto Ways to Become a Product Tester and Get Free Stuff
Free samples have evolved from freebies in supermarket aisles to items that arrived with a newspaper or magazine subscriptions to free perks for influencers and loyal customers. Free samples are now tailored to specific tastes, demographics, and shopping styles and…
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Jag_cz/istockphoto Best Fishing Spots in All 50 States
If you like your trophies with a little squeeze of lemon, you must be an angler. From interior lakes and ponds to brackish channels and open ocean, America has a vast network of fishing spots along both coasts and every…
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dragana991/istockphoto How Often You Really Need to Take Your Car in for Service
With all that’s going on, it’s perfectly understandable if auto maintenance is the furthest thing from most people’s minds. But they should consider that an unexpected repair bill is probably the last thing they need right now, and keep vehicle…
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FS-Stock/istockphoto The 3 Adult Beverages You Need to Add to Your Summer Drinks Repertoire
Summer is here and we all know what that means: The sippin’s easy — or at least it should be, in the form of refreshing summer drinks to enjoy with friends, by a pool, on a boat, by a campfire,…
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Morsa Images/istockphoto ‘Golden Visas’: How Much Coveted Citizenships Can Cost
Whether to avoid high taxes, to escape quarantines and skirt travel bans, to increase travel options, or just for the prestige, wealthy people have been jumping through hoops to secure a second passport. Pre-pandemic, there was no shortage of countries…
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bernie_photo/istockphoto Credit Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
Your credit isn’t your life, but it affects much of it. Your credit score determines not only your credit card limits, but how worthy you are to rent or buy a house, lease or own a car, get insurance, sign…
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Richard Bord / WireImage / Getty Image Famous Founders Who Lost the Brands Named After Them
Many of the household brands you know were named after the visionaries who started them. What you may not know is that many of these founders have since lost the…
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Camrocker/istockphoto This Car Color Has the Worst Resale Value
Do you take resale value into account when shopping for a new vehicle? You’re not the only one. But make and model aren’t the only factors when it comes to…
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Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images The 25 Biggest Movie Franchises in America
What’s better than a hit movie? A whole flock of them, each playing on the popularity of the original. That’s how you build a Hollywood franchise. Comic-book superheroes have provided…
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Olivier Le Moal/istockphoto 15 Smart Purchases That Pay for Themselves
Cutting expenses is always appealing, but a small upfront investment can reap ongoing savings. These products and services pay for themselves — and then some — in relatively short order.…
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Orbit Gas & Mini Mart Road Trippers Go Out of Their Way for These 30 Convenience Stores
The first priority of most convenience stores is right there in the name — they’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, just to provide a few cheap essentials in one…
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Zillow The Most Expensive Neighborhood in Every State
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that what’s considered “cheap” or “expensive” is all relative — especially in real estate, in which what’s expensive in one state might be considered cheap…
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©TripAdvisor Dangerous Roads You Should Never Drive in an RV
Most of us are so accustomed to using our phones for driving directions that we often don’t put much thought into the route suggested by our map apps. “It is…
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Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images Big Celebrities Who Grew Up in Small Towns
Shawnee, Oklahoma; Smyrna, Georgia; Plainfield, Illinois; Union, Kentucky — they aren’t known as incubators of stardom, but the World’s Most Famous don’t come just from the coasts. Small towns have…
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alvarez/istockphoto Great Second Careers That Don’t Require More School
If you’re on the fence about a career change, consider this: 88% of career changers say they’re happy they made the leap, according to an Indeed survey, a previous survey…
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DSC_0241_pp by Walter (CC BY) 40 Famous People’s Homes You Can Visit
Everyone wants to know a little more about their favorite celebrities, which is why Hollywood tour companies can make good money driving tourists to see just the exteriors of actors’…
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Getty Images / Jason Kirk / Staff / Hulton Archive Celebrity Restaurants That Completely Flopped
In between filming movies or TV shows, spending time in the studio, or posing for photoshoots, celebrities often search for new ways to fill their time. From rappers and singers…
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Mizina/istockphoto 28 Recipes to Use Up the Bulk Food You Overbought at Costco
Feeling like you went a little overboard while stocking up on bulk buys at Costco — particularly with all of that perishible produce? While you might have been hoping to eat…
