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Lillian Turner-Bowman’s Six Tips On Money Happiness & The Science Of Spending
How was your long weekend? Look -- whatever your opinion about labor unions, I think we all appreciate an extra "day off" now and then (though, as with many New York/New Jersey Metro business owners, my "day off" wasn't exactly just burgers and the pool ... we're...
An Overview Of Student Tax Credits, Benefits & Deductions By Lillian Turner-Bowman
There are people on social media who are already posting hopeful pictures about "Harvest Time" and "Fall 2016", and I think it might be because this summer has been a really hard one for the nation, and our world. We've had terrorist attacks, Zika, terrible flooding...
Lillian Turner-Bowman’s Five Ideas For Establishing A Side Hustle
A couple things need to be said before I get into the meat of what I'm writing today. Firstly, our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast who withstood 7 trillion gallons of rain in just one week, and this disaster is shaping up to...
Lillian Turner-Bowman’s Financial Goals By Age
Despite what they're saying about the low TV ratings for these Olympics, almost everyone I know is talking about them. Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Simone Manuel, Usain Bolt ... the great stories are flying at us so fast that it's almost hard to keep track. I'm so...
Children, Finances And New York/New Jersey Metro’s Consumerism Culture
I've recently witnessed some child tantrums in the checkout line. You know how it goes ... many people looking away, some looking on with scowls of judgment and a few kind souls giving smiles and words of encouragement. Parenting is no walk in the park. Many parents...
Common Sense Online Security for New York/New Jersey Metro Families
I love technology, I truly do. I'm not always perfect at using it as well as I could in my New York/New Jersey Metro tax preparer business, but we do make it a point around here to stay as up-to-date as possible with the technology of what we do (in tax preparation,...
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Estate & Tax Planning For New York/New Jersey Metro Families
We're in the middle of the always-somewhat-odd political convention season, in which true believers fire each other up, and most everyone else issues a collective yawn (and more strongly filters their Facebook feed). I don't mean to say that I don't care about...
Turner-Bowman’s 5 Steps To Affect Your Credit Score
Look, I don't know what a Pokemon is, but with the kind of summer that our nation and world has been having, I suppose I can understand the appeal of plugging into an alternate reality and hunting weird, imaginary creatures. With Baton Rouge (once again) in the...