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How to Plan for Your Best Christmas Holiday Season
Preparing in advance for the holidays may seem silly to some. However, people who are well prepared for the holidays will not have a financial blow when they are trying to purchase Christmas presents, decorations, and food at the last minute. Planning in advance can help avoid the temptation to use credit cards, or take part in a Holiday shopping frenzy. Preparing for Christmas should be done every month of the year. Here are some easy tips that you can use to help you create a fabulous Christmas.
Jon Gosselin Took $200,000 from Account Without Telling Kate
Yikes – if it wasn’t bad enough to cheat on his wife, Jon Gosselin now took $200,000 from their joint bank account – and didn’t tell her. She found out when she received overdraft notices. He reportedly left only $1000 in the account! Celebrity lawyer Marty Singer, litigation attorney for Kate Gosselin, tells PEOPLE that the court had told the estranged couple to not take significant amounts from the joint accounts without approval. Hmm… think $200,000 counts as significant?
Johnny Knoxville’s Divorce Finalized
After 12 years of marriage, Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and his ex-wife Melanie have had their divorce finalized. The terms of the agreement were settled last Friday in a Los Angeles area court. Knoxville, 38, is required to pay $6,000 a month in child support for his daughter, 13-year-old Madison. The ex-couple also split the bank accounts and Melanie will also receive half of the residuals from Jackass and Dukes of Hazzard.
How to Play the Stock Market for Beginners
Playing the stock market is one part of an investment strategy that gives you a sense of having some control over your money. Keep some money in an interest-bearing savings account and invest another portion of your money in the stock market. Give yourself time to understand the basics of investing and save the more complicated features of brokerage accounts, including buying on margin, for when you are more comfortable with stock market investing.
How to Buy Shares
A share, simply put, is a unit of stock. The terms stock and share are often used interchangeably, but the technical definition is that a stock is not a countable unit, whereas a share is. When you purchase stock in a company, you purchase a certain amount of shares of that stock. Here’s how to do so.