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		<title>International Family Travel on a Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m over at Equifax’s Family Money blog talking about budget family travel—outside the United States. Yep, it’s actually possible, and our family lived to tell about it during a recent journey to England. Our daughters are 10 and 14, which we decided was a good age for a “bigger” trip. They’re old enough to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2012/04/16/family-travel-budget/</link>
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		<title>Saving Money Caring for Sick Pets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past two weeks, we’ve been running a “chicken urgent-care clinic” in our backyard. Well, sort of. We have three backyard chickens. Urban chickens are a huge deal here in Portland, Oregon. To our family, Lily, Ernestine and Cocoa are pets&#8211;just as if they were cats or dogs. We pet them. We carry them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2012/02/08/saving-money-caring-sick-pets/</link>
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		<title>Your Weight Goes Down, Your Savings Go Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m over at Equifax.com’s new family money blog today talking about the link between losing weight and saving money. Believe it or not, the two have lots of similarities—and not just in how hard they are to do! I noticed the connection when I joined Weight Watchers a while back. I didn’t make a conscious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2012/02/03/weight-down-saving/</link>
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		<title>7 Ways to Teach Kids to be Gift-Givers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, there’s a chore list on our refrigerator with dollar values next to each one. “Wipe down lower kitchen cabinets: $1.” “Clean lower living room windows: $1.” And so on. What does that have to do with holiday gift-giving? Our kids are earning extra money to buy gifts for each other, us, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2011/12/07/7-ways-teach-kids-gift-givers/</link>
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		<title>Un-Budgeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest project: Un-budgeting. What does that mean? Un-complicating our family finances a little. I happen to be a very, um, detailed person about our family budget. So over the years, I have dived into it deeper and deeper, creating categories for everything under the sun: For “Cars,” we have Car: Insurance; Car: Repairs, Car: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2011/11/18/un-budgeting/</link>
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		<title>Simple Ways to Teach Kids to be ‘Financially Fit’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m always on the lookout for good ideas on teaching kids about money. One woman who has more than a few thoughts on the subject, since she’s got the cool-sounding job of “Mom Saver-in-Chief” for RedPlum, the big coupon company, is Lisa Reynolds. Lisa, who lives with her husband and two young sons in Northville, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2011/10/04/simple-ways-teach-kids-%e2%80%98financially-fit%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Saving Money on Textbooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve got kids in high school or college, you’re facing the same unpleasant expense we are: Buying textbooks. As if tuition wasn’t already high enough, you also have to pay for books. Expensive books. That are used for only a few months. And get quickly dinged up. If we had bought them all new, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2011/08/24/saving-money-textbooks/</link>
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		<title>Grappling with College Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a recent holiday barbecue, a group of our friends had a “lively discussion” about college and what we expect for our kids. Collectively, our kiddos range in age from 7 to 14. Some of the main questions that came up: Should we encourage our kids get a general liberal arts degree like history or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2011/06/01/grappling-with-college-costs/</link>
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		<title>Beyond an Allowance: Money Management for Teens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When she turned 13, our oldest daughter stopped getting an allowance. Instead, we put her &#8220;on salary.&#8221; She gets a lot more money than ever before. She loves that. She&#8217;s also responsible for more of her own expenses than ever before. Her dad and I love that. We can&#8217;t take complete credit for this idea. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2011/02/14/beyond-an-allowance-money-management-for-teens/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Extreme&#8221; Disney savings &amp; fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our family hasn&#8217;t been to Walt Disney World yet (since we&#8217;re on the West Coast), but when we do, we&#8217;ll be taking a copy of my friend Kate Reilly&#8217;s book with us. It&#8217;s Walt Disney World Resort Extreme Vacation Guide for Kids. Read about it here. The cool thing is that it&#8217;s a travel guide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cettinaworks.com/site/2010/11/05/extreme-disney-savings-fun/</link>
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