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I don’t know if I should feel optimistic or sick. Here are a few stories of what a child can accomplish if they put their minds, heart and hands to work. Life is part work, luck and gutsy effort – what is your excuse for not achieving more? 10 Teenage Entrepreneur Millionaires Adam Hildreth In 1999, at only fourteen years old, Adam Hildreth together with his six friends launched the famous English social networking site Dubit. Dubit became one of the most popular websites in 2004. By 2005, Dubit had a net worth of more than 3.7 million dollars. Adam later founded Crisp thinking, which developed software that protected people from online predators, online harassment and spamming. He is ranked 23 in the top 100 richest young people in the UK according to the 2011 Sunday times rich list. Adam Hildreth is estimated to have a net worth of 38 million dollars. Sean Belnick When he was only 14 years old, Sean Belnick created bizchair.com, an internet retailer for all types of furnitu

How big-time savers do it Studies show 5 characteristics of people who manage to follow up on their good intentions to save. Here's what they can teach the rest of us. If saving more money is one of your goals, you're not alone: In surveys, most Americans list saving as one of their top ambitions. But many don't know how to get started. Saving more, after all, tends to be a big, general goal, and experts suggest that we are more likely to meet our goals if we break them into small, manageable steps. Bringing lunch to work, for example, can be a step toward reducing weekly food costs. Similarly, being more specific in how you plan to save, whether it's from earning more money or cutting back, can also make it easier to take those small steps. Successful savers often mention five strategies when asked how they manage to put so much money away No. 1: They started slowly Overcoming the initial inertia that prevents many of us from saving can be the hardest step.

Saving not hoarding: Child saves Family My personal story about money; how a child that was saving or hoarding and a hungry family. As most of you know I grew up poor. I lived a hard life and my family of seven brothers and sisters and my single mother. It was obvious to most – just by looking at us, that we were struggling and at best we were barely making due. Poverty was a constant in my home and in the neighborhood that we lived in. I remember this one time when I was a very young boy, how in my innocent desire for wealth (to have money) and to escape from the constant emotional hardship of poverty – I started stealing coins from my mother’s purse. Trust me when I say that it was not out of malice, though I clearly understood that I was doing something wrong, my childish intension was simply to have money to save. It all started innocently enough. The first time it happened was when I noticed that my mother was leaving some change in a bowl near her bed. I had just finishe

Family Lives Without Money by Choice and Thrives? I ran across an interesting story but I believe it is filled with some misconceptions about a truth we can achieve. We can live without money or the burden society places on us. But first let me show you some excerpts of the story so you can follow along. Family Lives Without Money—By Choice—and Thrives By Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff A Berlin family of three has been living on practically nothing but love and the goodwill of others for more than two years and counting—not as a victims of the rough economy, but as activists who are on a money strike to protest what they call our “excess-consumption society.” “As consumers, we support the system, and we are all responsible for making a wasteful society,” Raphael Fellmer, 29, told Yahoo! Shine. “This strike is to inspire other people to reflect about our other possibilities.” Fellmer, who said he’d held jobs since he was 12 years old, began his protest after years of working

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Why do I hate Valentine’s Day but love this card! You have to admit, Valentine’s Day has a bad ugly history –the beheading of a priest, Rome telling people they can’t marry, and oh, let’s not forget that little massacre in the back ally. Let’s face it people the only reason Romeo and Juliet is considered a romantic play is because they die in the end. That is correct I said it- they die so it’s romantic because we can fantasize about all the things that could have been. When in fact, we all know the truth…. Marriage, mortgage, 2.5 kids, trips to all these places you really do not want to attend and yes – celebrating days like valentines. I love my wife, but really, I know for a fact that my wife is not waiting for Valentine’s Day for me to show her affection. She reminds me on many occasions that she wants me not to say I love her but show her I love her (did I say she wants this ‘every day’). It just bothers me that people want to make a big issue out of one day – when in truth

Review of: Five Guys hanburgers & fries “Five Guys – we just have to go dad, it’s the best” screams out the daughter from the back seat. “Yeah honey I hear it’s great. We have to try it” the wife chimes in.   The son, he doesn’t care where we go, he just wants to eat. Me, I want to go home but why not – let’s make the family happy , spend some time together and maybe I will get a great experience I can blog about (I thought to myself). So what happened? How did it go? Was it all that cracked up to be? Well, let me start off with – it’s a good burger. I had the large (which basically means two beef patties – the small comes only with one) with sautéed onions, lettuce, tomato, and beacon with A1 sauce.   I like the idea that it is all cooked in peanut oil to help with cholesterol (considering what I am eating). The idea that you pay one price and add all the toppings you want sounds good but the price (I am sure) already factors in the topping – so I wouldn’t say you