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Kick the Habit: Caffeine

(MCT)—For most people, a morning cup of java isn’t harmful. But if you rely on coffee to get you out of bed, to stave off midmorning headaches and to avoid the 3 p.m. crash, you may be hooked on one of the most popular drugs in the world.


Happy Halloween: The Top 10 Haunted Homes for Sale

To celebrate Halloween, RISMedia is bringing you the top 10 haunted homes in the country. The following homes for sale are some of the spookiest on the market, as gathered by TopTenRealEstate.com.


Does ’4 Percent’ Still Work for Retirement?

(MCT)—If you retire, how much money can you remove each year from your savings and make sure you don’t rob your golden years of the gold you will need to put food on the table?


Pumpkin Carving 101

Carving a pumpkin doesn’t have to be as daunting—or messy—as one may assume. After you pick your pumpkin at the local patch or store, follow these easy steps to turn your squash into a festive jack-o-lantern with minimal effort.


Ask The Experts: When Buying a Home Is a Good Idea

(MCT)—With housing prices so low, buying a home or rental property may sound tempting. But is it a good investment? This week, Jonathan Lederer, a wealth management adviser in Sacramento, California, offers his advice.


Do Your Part: Top 5 Solutions to E-waste

(MCT)—The season of gadgets will soon be upon us. There will be the “must-have” cell phones, tablets, computers, gaming devices, and all the rest of it. So what happens to your old electronics once you’ve upgraded? Do Your Part and don’t let it go to waste. Here are my Top 5 Solutions to E-Waste.


How to Protect Your Vacation Home This Winter

(MCT)—To prevent a storm from causing a major headache at a vacation home, keep a few things in mind besides locking the doors and stopping the mail for the winter.


How to Protect Your Home this Winter

(MCT)—As the weather turns cooler, it’s time for homeowners to take prudent steps to protect their houses and property—so that the weather does not turn on them.


Do Your Part: Reduce Waste in the Kitchen

(MCT)—Americans create an average of 4.5 pounds of trash a day and much of it is created in our kitchens. Recycling is one option to reducing all that trash and composting is another. But sometimes there are items that we toss because we don’t have a greener solution. Instead of trashing it—reuse it!


Ask the Experts: Reverse-Mortgage Lender Threatens to Foreclose

(MCT)—The following “Ask the Experts” answer comes from Gold River, Calif., estate planning attorney Robin Bevier. Question: When my father died last year, he and my mother had a reverse mortgage on their duplex. In addition, they had a revocable living trust.


Forcing Bulbs to Bloom

(MCT)—Pots of pretty spring-flowering bulbs can be part of your home’s indoor and outdoor decor, with or without a yard. It’s all about the planting method you choose this fall.


Your Place: Filling in the Uneven Spots on Wood Siding

(MCT)—Q: We have a very old home with wood siding. After years of scraping, sanding and painting, the siding has several uneven spots. Is there a technique and/or product we can apply to even out these boards?


Educating Gabriel, 13, an Off-the-Charts Prodigy

(MCT)—When he was 8 years old, Gabriel See got a score on the math part of the SAT that would be the envy of most high-school seniors. When he was 9, he galloped through high-school Advanced Placement math and science classes — calculus, statistics, physics, chemistry and biology — scoring a perfect 5 in each subject.


Q&A: Short Sale Sometimes Comes with Cash Incentive

(MCT)—Question: I heard that some banks give homeowners money in a short sale to help them move out of the property. Is this true? Answer: It sounds too good to be true, but it’s legit. The Sun Sentinel wrote about this in June. Many lenders will offer homeowners a few thousand dollars


Give Your Spine a Break: Stand Tall

(MCT)—In honor of mothers everywhere, Sunday, Oct. 16, has been designated Don’t Slouch Day. Well, technically, it’s National Spinal Health Day, but if we had listened to our mothers when they told us not to slouch,


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