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What Christmas Expectations Are You Setting for Your Children?
What are your children’s expectations for Christmas presents? Do they expect many Christmas presents under the tree and their every wish to be met? Do they expect a modest Christmas? Believe it or...
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Is Convenience Food Sucking Up Your Food Budget? The Rice-a-Roni Example
Take a look at your past grocery receipt. Do you like the total of it? Chances are you may have been a little mortified once the cashier told you the final total of your groceries. You are not alone!...
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Are You a Patient Purchaser?
Conventional wisdom, at least in frugal personal finance circles says you should wait several days (or even weeks) before making most purchases. Especially large purchases. Personally, I’m usually a...
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Take Advantage of Super Bowl Sales to Save Money
Super Bowl 2013 is on February 3, only a week away. If you’re a football fan, you’re probably counting down the days and planning your Super Bowl party. Your whole day, indeed your whole weekend,...
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Are You a Savvy Saver? Really? How Much Is Your Internet Bill?
The following is a guest post brought to you by Blake Sanders and Broadbandexpert.com So you think you are getting the best bang for your buck? Let’s see if you are really saving all that you can....
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Paying for Services When There’s a Free Alternative
Sites around the web, including this one, are always pushing free or DIY alternatives to lots of things. And, in most cases, I think that they (and I) am right. There are so many things that we pay...
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Why I’m Withdrawing Money from an IRA
I’ve been going back and forth with myself over whether I should write a post about how I am withdrawing money from an IRA. It’s not something that is recommended, and certainly not something that...
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Are We Doing Personal Finance Wrong?
As you can probably imagine, as a personal finance writer, I think about personal finance quite a bit. Often enough that I write several articles a week on the subject. I don’t consider myself an...
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What is Financial Independence
In my post “Are we Doing Personal Finance Wrong“, I talked a little bit about “Financial Freedom”. Of all the comments that the post got, that was the one thing that was mentioned most of all....
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Why I Bought My Baby Stuff Used
I had my first baby last June, and I probably bought one or two small purchases new. The rest was all second hand. I’ll also let you in on a secret, but please, don’t tell anyone I know. I returned...
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DIY Projects that Sound Scary, But Aren’t
In the world of frugality, there are few things that will save you more money than learning a few DIY skills. From simple things like replacing the light switch cover, to more difficult things like...
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Looking for More Ways to Save? Try Asking for Discounts
There are plenty of ways to save on a daily basis–clipping coupons, resisting the urge to buy something, packing your lunch instead of eating out, etc. There are many ways to live a more frugal life,...
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Creative, Frugal Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for Kids and Adults
Mother’s Day is right around the corner. If you’re scrambling to find ways to show mom how much you love and care for her, don’t worry. There are many ways you can do just that without breaking the...
View ArticleWorld Diets: A Week’s Worth of Groceries
Ok, so I saw this post over at FStoppers about What a Week of Groceries Looks Like Around the World, and I couldn’t help but mark it for a second look, and eventually an article here. Click on that...
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Earning > Saving
Saving is a finite solution. You can only save so much, can only be so frugal. Your power for earning is unlimited with the right resource (you), the right tools (knowledge), and the right force (hard...
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Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Wealth
The following is a guest post from Bob Richards who is the publisher of The Retirement Blog . Guaranteed to Keep You Poor There is way too much propaganda on the web about living frugally, cutting...
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Think You Can’t Afford the Paleo Diet? Ways to Make It More Affordable
The Paleo diet is gaining popularity, and it can be a good choice for people who have to avoid gluten whether because of a gluten intolerance or Celiac disease. Sure, if you’re gluten free there are...
View ArticleAre You Prodigal?
I have to admit a bit of ignorance here folks. For years, I associated the word Prodigal with the word Prodigious. They have the exact same root structure, only different suffixes. Prodig -al...
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Save Money and Eat Healthy: Rent an Apple Tree
When my health began to suffer a few years ago thanks to stress, being overweight, and having some intestinal issues, I started taking much better care of myself. That meant eating organic foods,...
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Embrace Abundance
One of the tried and true tenets of personal finance is frugality. Either through penny-pinching and coupon clipping, or through budgets and smart spending, we aim for frugality. We choose to be...
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