Get free lasagna on National Lasagna Day Finally, it’s National Lasagna Day! Of course, I had no idea this day even existed until I started reading about places handing out free lasagna. Like most totally arbitrary-sound holidays, this holiday does appear to be totally arbitrary. I don’t know how long National Lasagna Day has been around, I ...

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The August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research arrived in my mailbox yesterday. It contains an interesting article from Nicolao, Irwin, and Goodman entitled “Happiness for Sale: Do Experiential Purchases Make Consumers Happier than Material Purchases?” This is a topic we’ve skirted at Get Rich Slowly, but never fully explored. Many readers have offered ...

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If you happen to be entering college and would like to decide the field you would like your career to be or feel the need to choose a major, you may want to consider a field that has growth prospects over the next twenty years or more. Even if you are already a few years ...

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Big Papi’s Grille a family restaurant Image from WBZ Boston David Ortiz, known to baseball fans as “Big Papi,” now has another revenue source — not that he needs one. Today marks the opening of Big Papi’s Grille, the Red Sox slugger’s own family restaurant. “We decided to open a place that people can come and, without spending ...

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Making money education fun He wants to teach your kids about money. You should listen, too. (Photo: DIC Entertainment) What have we learned about the way people handle money lately? Loose and lazy seems to be the general rule in America, in that people don’t tend to plan as much for the future as they should and ...

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