Should my wife work a second income analysis
A reader asks if a wife should work to help a family of four, weighing financial and personal benefits. The advisor uses a made up example: husband $22,000 gross, wife $8,000, childcare $3,600, and various costs totaling about $1,500. Result: combined take home rises only slightly and taxes push more income into a higher bracket, reducing net gain.
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Beauty tricks to enhance your face
The piece offers makeup and hair tips for various face shapes. It suggests applying rouge to center cheeks and chin for round faces, highlighting the top of the head to slim full faces, and using blusher to widen high cheekbones on oblong faces. For square faces it recommends an upswept hairstyle with loose curls to soften impact.
Ann Landers Clarifies Bridge, Travel and Blood Queries
Dear Ann letters address a husband's avid duplicate bridge, late returns, and social nights at a club. Advice urges attending with him, staying occupied, and sharing activities. A vacation safety note stresses leaving contact details. A reader asks about blood donation labels and race. The adviser corrects terminology and explains blood types A B AB and O with standard hospital labeling.
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