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If you could use some help managing the household budget, here are some handy ready-made spreadsheets for a variety of such jobs. This one, for example, helps you manage a freedom account to manage those larger, unscheduled expenses that can mess up the budget. The parent site is It's Your Money.

For those not particularly interested in Japanese poetry, the haiku is a form of very short poem consisting of approximately 5, 7, and 5 syllable lines, or a total of 17 syllables in three lines. Whether or not you are interested in poetry, if you are interested in managing projects these examples of haiku will entertain you and perhaps recall fond moments in your experience. A sample:

We think about risks.
We have contingency plans.
Oops...but not for that.

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For one reason or another, sooner or later, many of us will need to buy, or try to buy, a good used car. It's not easy, but here is help with looking at the car and striking the deal.

FiveCentNickel.com has a helpful posting on how to manage allowances so that children learn to handle money well. It is a financial blog with other helpful articles, as you may see if you take some time to look around. The categories of material available are listed on the left side of the page. I tried the banking category and found that you can use Google as a currency converter. Didn't know that. Try it. Just enter, for example, "1 usd in euros" and the answer is returned. 1 us dollar is 0.807037366 euros. Or, it was when I did it. Your information will be current for your request.

Go here for an interesting twist on the three R's for business plans. The site has a lot of useful articles, like this one on encouraging employees to explore new ideas. While we're on the subject of thinking about how and why we do business, there is a list of basic questions for any business here.

Doing business requires us to remember the names of the folks we meet. It's important to know who we are talking to and dealing with. Still, the human memory is a leaky vessel and we all need to find ways to improve our memories. Here is a good article with some helpful devices to recall names.