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• Tighter standards slow down housing market

  Wed Jun 23, 2010
  • My husband and I can relate to this story. We have a credit score of 780, own two homes outright with an equity position of conservatively 600K, we have a number of other paid for assets, large 401Ks, good reliable relatively bullet proof income, no debt.

• Parents go overboard to help college kid get job

  Sun May 23, 2010
  • I'm pretty sure at age 17 right after HS graduation, my bags were packed on the doorstep with a note attached, "Been nice knowing you..." Seriously though, as a "me do" kind of child in a large family I did have those bags packed myself and was out of the nest within a month of leaving high school.

• Mackenzie Phillips: I slept with my own father

  Tue Sep 22, 2009
  • Troubling. Probably information best kept in the confines of the family and a therapist's office rather than a tell all book, but that's just my opinion. That woman's life has been sad and wasted for the most part. Let's hope she finds her way.

• Small retailers feel sharper pinch

  Mon Aug 31, 2009
  • Some of the quotes in this article could have been mine, the details being so very familiar, but I chose to liquidate and close my small retail shop in May rather than continue to fight an uphill battle that was keeping me up nights sweating the details and minutia of my business, looking for …

• Do you buy organic food?

  Wed Jul 29, 2009
  • Clueless comment IMO. I avoid brands like the plague and no one has ever called me a yuppie and lived to talk about it....

• Do you buy organic food?

  Wed Jul 29, 2009
  • The point is not the nutritional value but the lack of poisons used in producing the food.

• Would you drink coffee made from animal poo?

  Thu Jul 2, 2009
  • I don't like my coffee that much. Even if they gave it away for free, I'd pass on it.

• Cash or credit -- which is closer to your lifestyle?

  Tue Jun 23, 2009
  • Zero debt, I terminated my last CC, AMEX. My credit score taking a hit but it feels good to get off their interest accruing gristmill.

• Buffalo crash victims' families want answers

  Tue May 12, 2009
  • A truism in aviation, the medical profession and anything else where critical skills, experience and judgement are required to safeguard life: There are "C" students. It's a reality that can't be gotten around.

• Vice President Biden told TODAY he would advise family members to stay away from confined places, including planes and subways. Do you agree with this advice?

  Thu Apr 30, 2009
  • I already have given this same advice.