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How to save time and money before going to the supermarket

Lately, supermarket circulars have been finding their way to Grandma’s door. So when she call and asks me to pick something up, I had no clue what she was talking about until recently.
So I figured out that there has to be a better way. So I decided to see if the supermarkets in question had [...]

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A Loaf of Bread

They say that a slice of pizza is the barometer of NYC transit fare. What about a loaf of bread?
I am Forbidden (yes, that’s a capital F) to get bread for Grandma that’s above $2.00. She says that it doesn’t make sense to just give away money.
Often I am lectured about back in the day [...]

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Ugly Betty focuses on caregiving

On the show, Betty and Hilda’s father is recovering from a heart attack and both sisters wrestle with the question of care giving. This episode hits close to home for many people today. Can one or two people can realistically take responsibility for a sick or elderly relative. In the end, they learned that [...]

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Layaway: Everything old is new again

When the financial storm hit the fan over the past several weeks. Grandma asked. “Whatever happened to layaway?”
I was then lectured about how my great-grandmother got most of the furniture on layway. It was simple, you paid a little at a time, and when you made that last payment, nothing could replace the sheer joy [...]

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Financial Caregiving and Emergency notification

Recently, the telephone company sent a form to Grandma to indicate someone to notify in case the bill is not paid. We had been talking about filling out the form for a while now. Basically the form says that if the bill payer is 62  years or older and the bill has not been paid, [...]

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