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	<title>Graduated Learning:  Life after College</title>
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	<description>I got my degree, I got a job...now what?</description>
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		<title>I just started a Down Payment Fund!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I decided to do something with my checking account balance.  Most personal finance people I know have the bare minimum in their checking accounts, keeping as much money as possible in interest bearing accounts/investments or using excess to pay off debts.  I&#8217;m a bit of a nervous nelly, so I keep more in checking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=484&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/i-just-started-a-down-payment-fund/</link>
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		<title>My Personal Finance Confessions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make.  I&#8217;m not a perfect person.  I know.  It&#8217;s hard to believe.
But seriously.  I know there are so many rules that you&#8217;re supposed to follow when it comes to personal finance.  And I think I do a pretty good job at following most of them.  I spend less than I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=467&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/my-personal-finance-confessions/</link>
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		<title>Layoff Survival Guide:  Back to work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve gotten a job offer.  Congratulations!  But now you may be wondering what to do about all those changes you had to deal with when you got laid off.  What do you do about your health insurance coverage now?  And how do you stop collecting unemployment?  What are all the things you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=413&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/layoff-survival-guide-back-to-work/</link>
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		<title>Teach Me Tuesday:  CD Ladders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teach Me Tuesday is back!  I started it back up because 1:  a friend called me out on not doing any more (sorry!), and 2:  another friend was wondering what his options are for saving money.  So, here we go!
Friend #2 asked me for some advice, because he knows I&#8217;m into personal finance.  His general [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=462&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/teach-me-tuesday-cd-ladders/</link>
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		<title>Rock your Financial Life, and other adventures of last week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m began writing this on Monday after staying home all day from work.  I seem to have gotten a horrible cold this weekend.  I&#8217;m wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I was out and about a lot more than I have been in quite some time.  Hopefully not.  I like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=453&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/rock-your-financial-life-and-other-adventures-of-last-week/</link>
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		<title>Should I work with a personal trainer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to go to the gym more often.  Something about me getting back up towards my &#8220;working at a food science company where I taste test my work&#8221; weight made me feel like I should stop being lazy.
Last week and this week I ramped up what I was doing on the weights circuit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=449&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/should-i-work-with-a-personal-trainer/</link>
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		<title>How do you budget friendship?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got an email today with a question about budgeting/saving/paying down debt and its possible impact on friendships:
Dear Stephanie,
So I have this friend who is a great guy and everything, but is obsessed with paying down his credit card debt. Now, that&#8217;s all well and good, but he seems to be willing to sacrifice his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=443&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/how-do-you-budget-friendship/</link>
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		<title>Personal Finance Mad Lib</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;m a little late to the game.  Debt Ninja at Punch Debt in the Face (best blog name ever) wrote up a paragraph complete with blanks to fill in.  Now, unlike in 5th grade, when the nouns were boogers and poop, the adjectives were slimy and stinky, and the numbers included eleventy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=438&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/personal-finance-mad-lib/</link>
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		<title>Sticking around another year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the first day of our 4th year-long lease at our apartment.  Yep, by the time we (presumably) move out at the end of July 2010, we will have lived at the same place for four years.  That&#8217;s like an entire college career!
We decided to stick around here for a few reasons.  We really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=378&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/sticking-around-another-year/</link>
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		<title>Teach Me Tuesday:  Selling off your stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are again for another Teach Me Tuesday.  Last week didn&#8217;t work so well&#8230;I guess I don&#8217;t have enough readers that have an interest in quantum dots!
But this week seems like I might have picked a topic closer to the hearts of my readers:  Selling off your stuff.
I have come to the realization that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=graduatedlearning.wordpress.com&blog=1872092&post=424&subd=graduatedlearning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://graduatedlearning.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/teach-me-tuesday-selling-off-your-stuff/</link>
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