Tag: nest egg
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Safety net
WotD: Safety net You know, in many ways, life is not fair. Some of us can go through life and never require a safety net. Others of us have been able to take advantage of a safety net when we needed it, and yet for others, there never was a safety net, and they fell…
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Downsize
Word of the Day: Downsize Downsizing has become a trend over the past 15-20 years. It used to be that a couple got married, purchased a house, raised their family and then lived out their retirement in the same home. Now, the family home is seen as an investment for the future. The house you raise…
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Left holding the bag
Phrase: Left holding the bag Have you ever had the responsibility for something unceremoniously dumped on you? If you have, you know how it feels to be left holding the bag. If you know what I mean, things like that tend to happen to people further down the totem pole. To be clear, when you’re…
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Put all of your eggs in one basket
Proverb: Put all of your eggs in one basket Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and it’s also a good reason not to put all of your eggs in one basket. Imagine you’re a little girl living on a small family farm in rural Japan. Your mother wants to make tamagoyaki for lunch,…
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Put away
WotD: Put away As you can probably guess, put away is a phrasal verb, meaning putting something somewhere. This phrasal verb has various meanings. It can mean storing something after you have used it, as we teach our children to put away their toys before they go to bed. It could also mean to eat…
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Nest egg
Word of the Day: Nest egg If you listen to your financial adviser, they will tell you that if you want to retire and maintain a lifestyle similar to the one you enjoy now, you will have to put away quite a substantial nest egg. That’s right; if you haven’t started already, you should be…
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Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
English Proverb: Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves This one sounds very British because we have pennies and pounds, right? The idiom can be used in any English-speaking country because its meaning is easily understood internationally. Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of…
