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What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. Staying put, but worried2. Replacing bottles and boiling water3. Frugal alternative to laundry softener4. Son has many credit …

Some conversations are easier to escape than others. But when it’s a conversation playing out across your TV screen, on all your social feeds and across the world, it gets a little harder to just check out, even when you want to. COVID-19 has taken over the news and our …

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.1. Retirement savings beyond public pension2. Best time to file taxes3. Struggling with cellular monopoly4. Buying nonperishables for preparation5. Educational …

Photo by Dean Drobot / Shutterstock.com The single most important factor in determining your credit score is your payment history. Pay on time, and your score soars. Miss payments, and the score will sink. Yet, 62% of Americans are in the dark about the fact that their payment history impacts …

It’s easy to feel outrage at Clearview AI for creating facial recognition trained with 3 billion images scraped without permission from sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but the company should be only one of the targets of your ire. Pervasive surveillance capitalism is designed to make you feel helpless, …

When a person steps back and looks at their life as a whole, those observations almost entirely fall into the things that they have or the things that they’re missing. These might be physical objects, or they might be things like relationships and personal skills, but many life assessments tend …

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.1. Concerned about coronavirus2. Worried about employer stability3. Coffee at home actually cheaper?4. FICA explanation5. Cheap dog treats6. Repurposing junk …

Photo by testing / Shutterstock.com On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a grave warning: The outbreak of the coronavirus officially named COVID-19 is a serious public health threat that may cause significant disruption in the U.S. The illness that began in China about three months ago …

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.1. Afraid of 401(k) losses2. Too much retirement savings dangerous?3. Bar soap or body wash?4. Online wills5. Coworker lunch gift …