How expensive is it to live in your 50s? £1560 a month needed according to new study.
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Article by Fabafterfifty We may think that once we turn 50 our costs will decrease, but it would appear that this not necessarily the case. Turning 50 marks the most expensive period in our lives, a new study has revealed. Especially with children flying the nest later than anticipated, increased costs of education, and adult children returning home to live! Experts calculated that those in their 50s can still expect to be lumbered with hefty mortgage payments while also trying to support teenage children. Increased costs of holidaying as four adults, rather than a family with two children, coupled with helping the kids with motoring costs as well as a house deposit costs means a deep financial pot is needed. The study, by leading UK health and wellbeing mutual organisation Benenden Healthcare Society, also went as far as to calculate how much the average 50-something will need a month to...
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The Day the Ladies of Khartoum Came to Tea
Article by by Jaki Scarcello Across the world and across our cultures and varying circumstances we share many of the same daily rituals and sometimes we can be transported into someone else’s parallel moment. The experience can change us forever. This morning in the LA Times I read about the tea ladies of Khartoum. I read about their difficult lives selling tea over open fires on the dusty city streets. I read about the songs they hum and sing as they set their fires at dawn and spread the last embers at sunset. These songs are the keepsakes from their villages and farms and the lush green hills of their past all lost now to war in Darfur. I read about their choice to stay on in the city often without a partner at their side, threatened by violent and corrupt police, to eke out a few dollars toward their...
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