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Ryan Learns to Grocery Shop…and Gets Paid

Ryan Learns to Grocery Shop…and Gets Paid

Ryan just got back from Winco.  He was grocery shopping.  For me.  My entire weekly list of items. For over a year, Ryan has asked me if he could do the grocery shopping.  He knows it’s way down on my list below scrub the toilet and clean the hair out of the sink.  But for some reason, I thought it would be more of a hassle having him do it than me just going and getting it over with. I…

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Nathan Earns a FREE Tux AND $400 Suit

Nathan Earns a FREE Tux AND $400 Suit

Okay, so it’s just a free tux rental, but the suit…that’s $400 that he gets to hang in his closet forever. And Nathan loves suits. Last year, when he did an internship with my brother in D.C., we went shopping for his very first suit. When the tailor brought out the tape measure and Nathan had to lift arms, he was in awe that people actually got treated this way. $600 later, it made sense why. That’s a lot of…

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Easy Money

Easy Money

As I sit here writing this, my youngest son is out pounding the pavement. Money motivates him. Not in an unhealthy, consuming kind of way. But in an I-can’t-turn-down-this-opportunity kind of way. And I’m okay with that as long as his ethics and priorities are in the right place. And they are. This is not the first time this opportunity has presented itself. There was a flyer on top of his newspaper stack last week (he has a once-a-week paper…

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The Negotiator

The Negotiator

A recent study from Accenture found that the easiest way to get a raise or a promotion was to ask for one. Yup, 85% of those surveyed who said they had asked for a raise actually got something. It reminded me of Nathan’s recent tutoring negotiation. He was recommended, by one of his old math teachers, to the mom of a seventh grader who needed help in algebra. Her first email to Nathan did not mention the fee she was…

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