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		<title>Last Minute Tax Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chances are many of you have already filed your taxes and even gotten your refunds already! Good for you.  Now, there are the rest of us.  I just got my paperwork to my accountant and expect to file on April 15th!  The tax laws have changed quite a bit over the last year, especially with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2010/03/last-minute-tax-tips/</link>
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		<title>How Well Do You Know Your Financial Advisor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I’m working with a client or in my seminar, I offer my “Working With Your Financial Advisor” Checklist. The feedback has been that it has only enriched their relationships or helps enlighten them to move to one better suited to their situation. A new study came out that investors pick their advisors based on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2010/03/how-well-do-you-know-your-financial-advisor/</link>
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		<title>5 Affordable Date Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valentine&#8217;s Day just passed. Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; it definitely causes angst for most of us, single or married. However, that is a separate topic we won&#8217;t explore right now!
Recently I read an article about affordable activities that resonated with me. Not only was I already doing some of them but they weren&#8217;t too &#8220;budgety&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2010/02/5-affordable-date-ideas/</link>
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		<title>What Are Your Money Ratios?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how much you are earning.  You know how much you owe.  You know how much you have in the bank.  But that is where your “know” ends.  If you don’t know any of these numbers, take a deep breath and call me 212.734.0433!  Many of my clients are in a similar situation.  If you do know; good for you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2010/02/what-are-your-money-ratios/</link>
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		<title>Galia does Money Makeover in NY Daily News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very excited to be asked by the NY Daily News to do a Money Makeover for a couple.  This couple, the Fergusons, are close to retirement and are very worried about their retirement prospects.  In addition, they had accrued a great deal of debt and are close to losing their home, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2009/12/galia-does-money-makeover-in-ny-daily-news/</link>
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		<title>Have an Extra $410 or even $24,000?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$410 is an amount that stands out – right? If you overspent this amount or if it showed up as a wrongful charge on your bank statement, you would be inclined to do something about it. These days, we have so many task and issues to deal with that even that dollar amount might not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2009/12/have-an-extra-410-or-even-24000/</link>
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		<title>What is Your Money Thanks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is normally so much stress around money that I thought this was a good time to focus on the money parts of our lives we are thankful for.  An exercise I do in my SIMPLY MONEY course is to state your money strength such as “I am great at checking my balances online “ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2009/11/what-is-your-money-thanks/</link>
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		<title>BEFORE YOU DONATE&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When examining your finances before year-end, one way to save on taxes for this year is to contribute to your favorite charity.  It is a win-win situation on both counts, you feel good and it saves you money on your taxes.  It is something you would probably do anyhow, but why not give a bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://downtoearthfinance.com/2009/11/before-you-donate/</link>
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