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Fun Father's Day Gifts

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Father's DayIf you've ever had a debate with your dad over whether Star Trek's NextGen series was better than TOS (the original series), or whether Jean-Luc Picard was a better captain of the Enterprise than James T. Kirk, then you need look no further than ThinkGeek to find a fun Father's Day gift he will love that will fit almost any budget.

Star Trek
Some of the most conservative gift choices on this website are Star Trek bathrobes ($39 US), Enterprise-shaped pizza cutters ($29.99 US) (that, um, "Boldly cut pizza where no man has cut before!), Klingon corkscrews ($19.99 US) that flip up the wings of a Bird-of-Prey starship, Interactive Tribbles ($14.99 US) that coo when picked up and are "guaranteed to sooth most humanoids" or a six-pack of Romulan Ale Energy Drink ($14.99 US) and Tribbles 'n' Bits Breakfast Cereal ($5.49 US).

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Green Father's Day Gift Guide
The gifts in Captivate's Father's Day Gift Guide take elements from a typical dad's day (sitting at a desk, snacking, and tinkering with a car, of course) and makes each of the activities just a bit more environmentally responsible.

How To Build a Never-Ending Cash Distributor
We've been eagerly awaiting The Dividend Guy's new eBook "How to Build a Never-Ending Cash Distributor" and it's finally here. Check out this fabulous followup to his first book on dividends, which explains how dividend investing is 1) easy to understand 2) perfect for lazy people and 3) a source of monthly income.

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How to be a Dividend Dad
The Dividend Guy has begun a series of blog posts on how to teach your kids about dividend investing. Tip No. 1: start early, so they can see the fruits of their investing by the time they are teenagers. Read more at the Dividend Guy Blog.

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Just because you've found two great stocks doesn't mean that you necessarily have the money to buy both or that they will both fit your asset allocation plan, says The Dividend Guy, as he explains how to pick between AT&T and Verizon in this month's Dividend Stock Battle. He also has great posts that analyze Verizon and AT&T.

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Why Your Portfolio Needs a Few Heroes
The farthest a stock can fall is 100 percent, but the climb up the market-cap ladder is, in theory, limitless, a guest blogger writes for our friends over at The Dividend Guy. He explains how you need a few investment "heroes" to counteract risk in your portfolio.

Enjoying Work-Life Balance
Last week's post on Canadian Dream: Free at 45 about how going on vacation can be risky when it comes to staying employed caused quite a stir. This week's post addresses the issue of work-life balance.

How to Save on Auto Insurance

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insuranceLiability and accident benefits coverage constitute the largest chunk of your premium when you buy auto insurance - as much as 65 to 75 percent. Yet, as discussed in What You Need to Know About Auto Insurance, carrying less liability can save as little as $50 a year - which is hardly worth the risk of being on the hook for hundreds of thousands.

If public transit can't take you where you need to go or you have other reasons for not saving as much as $10,000 a year by ditching your car, all is not lost. There are still ways you can reduce your insurance premiums, particularly if you haven't bought your car yet – or are willing to trade your current model in for a different one. It may be more economical to trade it in for a model that costs less to insure and hundreds of dollars per year add up quickly to thousands over the time you own your car.

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Are you investing without a plan? Then you're committing one of the seven most common investor sins. Read all seven of the most common investor sins listed by The Dividend Guy.

Getting Past 'I Can't'
Not to mince words, but when most people say "I can't" what they mean is "I don't feel like it" or "I'm lazy" or "I'd rather complain than make my life better or even "I'm so self-absorbed I can't see past the end of my nose," says our friend at Canadian Dream: Free at 45. If you don't want to fall into that trap, read his advice on how to turn "I can't" into "I can."

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What It Really Costs to Raise a Child
Not to burst your bubble, but you'll spend a lot more on housing, food and clothes than most people imagine when you decide to have a child. Financial Highway shows how you can spend more than $200,000 to raise one child to the age of 18.

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New Website Has All You Need to Know About Dividends
If you're a newcomer to dividend stocks, The Dividend Guy has launched a new website called What Is a Dividend? He says that if you're already familiar with dividend stocks there won't be much What Is a Dividend can teach you, but he's being overly modest. It's not only an amazingly comprehensive primer but provides information useful even for seasoned dividend investors.

How Old Does Your Resume Make You Look?
I was shocked recently to hear someone who'd just turned 40 talk about how anyone over the age of 30 now worries about being discriminated against in the workforce because of age. That's shocking. And it also makes the resume advice our friends over at Financial Highway has provided doubly useful. If you're worried that your resume makes you look too old to even get called in for an interview, this post provides useful tips on how to organize your resume to stress your skills and recent experience rather than employment history.

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Early Retirement with Kids
If you think that having kids makes it harder to retire early, you're right. But a guest blogger over at Canadian Dream: Free at 45 says that there are some ways that having kids makes retiring early easier. Read about his family's approach to saving money while having kids.

Where Do You Include Dividends in Asset Allocation?
In a classic asset allocation model, there are essentially 2 types of assets: Asset class A: Fixed income and Asset class B: Equities. Fixed income assets are pretty easy to define because they all pay a steady interest income. Equities are shares issued by public companies. Dividends could fall into both camps. So where do you put a share of a public company paying steady dividends? The Dividend Guy explains how he sees this.

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