In spring, a woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of growth and renewal, and we don’t mean just in the garden. Stop to smell the roses and make this spring the most colorful, dynamic and satisfying time of your life!
1. Renew your outlook on life
Life would be pretty dreadful if we did every single thing, all the time, by the book. Bending the rules occasionally can be downright liberating and thrilling. Get started today.
Give yourself permission to:
1. Go to a pretentious “black tie” wedding wearing what you want to wear
2. Play hooky from work every other month and have a spa day, all by yourself
by Catherine Del Spina
I don’t really like Las Vegas and was never an Elvis fan, but the more I thought about the kind of memories I wanted to create, both seemed perfect.
Jerry and I had been searching for a way to make the 40th anniversary of our terrific marriage something special. We married on January 24, 1976, in New York City, after knowing each other for only three months. I was 24 and Jerry was 30. We planned the wedding in a month. I wore a silk skirt and top. (more…)
Who didn’t fall in love with Jonah, the little boy who wanted to find a new wife for his lonely father, after his mother died, in the 1993 hit movie Sleepless in Seattle?
Jonah struck pay dirt. After all, who knew better than he what kind of woman would make his dad happy!
Now, picture a grown-up Jonah. We’ll call him Matt. Like Jonah, Matt wanted to help his “mum” (he’s British) find a companion. Divorced ever since Matt was 8 years old, mum, a teacher, never remarried or had any long-term partners, and Matt thought it was time she did. (more…)
1. The lovey dovey lush
By his 4th Scotch, he’s kissing everyone, including his son’s new girlfriend
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Sally and Bob are a hard-working couple approaching 60. Sally is a hospice nurse and Bob is a high school principal.
Married 29 years, they’ve always planned everything together, from family vacations to financing their two kids’ college educations. But now that they’re separately starting to think about their financial futures, each is reluctant to bring up this really important subject that will affect the rest of their lives.
If Sally and Bob sound like you and
your partner, keep reading.
Before the Sexual Revolution of the sixties, playing
spin the bottle and “making out” were our ideas of “hot”
times. After, well, that was a whole other story.
Which of these activities represented
YOUR involvement with boys?
1. Talking to your girlfriend about your crush on your Princess Phone
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Catherine’s 29-year-old daughter, Karli, recently became engaged to a darling young man with a promising career as an accountant, and there’s nothing more Catherine would like to do for her than make a memorable wedding. But she figures the celebration is going to cost in the neighborhood of $20,000, in their hometown of Des Moines, which means she will have to dip into her 401K to help pay the wedding expenses.
“I’ve got the money but I’d rather not go into
my retirement account, which is earning good interest. I’d also have to pay income taxes on what I withdraw,” Catherine pondered.
Although we all know a wedding doesn’t have to cost $20,000, Catherine’s estimate isn’t too far off the mark. The national average spent on a wedding in 2013, excluding the honeymoon, was $29,858, according to the annual Real Weddings Survey by theknot.com, which polled 13,000 U.S. brides and grooms. Even in Utah and Idaho, which had the lowest average spends in 2013, weddings cost $16,816 and $16,169 respectively. (The average was $86,918 in New York City!)
What Catherine doesn’t know, but should be delighted to hear, is that she can possibly finance Karli’s wedding at a fixed interest rate as low as 5.99%APR with autopay, and pay off the loan agreement from her and her husband’s income. This will allow her to keep her high performing assets intact (where she’s been earning well over 6% annually) and avoid using credit cards to pay for wedding expenses.
