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...CREDIT CARDS/DEBTS Get rid of them. That's standard advice, and it's not easy to follow. But you don't want to enter a period of weak pay increases and diminished job security with hard-to-afford debt. Pay down high-rate debt first, and because rates should decline, pay fixed-rate debt ahead of floating-rate debt. Cash is king. You will get a better deal on things like cars and major appliances as manufacturers lure back customers. Keep cash equal to at least three months' expenses if you can. That's less important when you're debt...
Leverett House recently got rid of its House dues, after it became clear that laundry revenues and their popular '80s dances--both of which bring in about $3,000 each semester--could comfortably fund the House Committee by themselves...
...governed" means. As a practical matter, the consent of the governed is expressed by legislators who are voted into office for the purpose of writing new laws and changing old ones. If the legislators change or write those laws in ways we disagree with, then we get to get rid of the legislators and hire replacements. Ta-da! Democracy! The rule...
Usually that something is doing the laundry. Whenever Jonda goes down to her basement to wash clothes, she sees, tucked under the stairs, an old tandem stroller. Her father crafted it from spare parts, painted it white and wrapped rubber around its wooden wheels. Jonda won't get rid of the stroller, even though it provokes sorrow and anger toward the sister who walked out on her family. What Jonda doesn't know--and might never know...
...that doesn't work, Professor Otnes suggests that a popular way to get rid of bad gifts is to recycle them. I, for instance, have other brothers who like steak...