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Extreme Couponing: Fad or Lifestyle
Ever since TLC decided that it would make for good reality television to follow around a bunch of folks who use coupons and dub them “Extreme Couponers”, there’s been a ton of talk about the people on...
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Get Yourself and the Kids in the Halloween Spirit for Less
Halloween is right around the corner. While the stores seem to like to skip Halloween and Thanksgiving and shoot right to Christmas (in September!), the majority of us like to embrace each holiday as...
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Republic Wireless: The Future of Cellular?
Disclaimer: I was given a free Motorola Defy XT and three months of service with Republic Wireless in exchange for an honest review of the service here. Cellular service has long been dominated by a...
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Stock the Freezer with Frugal Meat Through Hunting
This is a guest post by Wesley Levy, who operates the website www.bestvenisonrecipes.com, and has been a frugal hunter his whole life. My wife really enjoys eating healthy, and prefers the taste of...
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The Walgreens Drugstore Game by Amanda Grossman – A Review
If one of your resolutions for the new year is to save money, you’ll want to check out Amanda Grossman’s new ebook, The Walgreens Drugstore Game: Strategies to Turn Pocket Change Into Thousands of...
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During a typical year, children get two weeks off school during Christmas break, often a week or so before Christmas and a week after. However, if Christmas falls on a weekend, and if your school...
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California Drought; Food Prices On the Rise
I’m not sure if you caught this or not. I suppose if you live in California you might have heard quite a bit about it. If you live far from California, like I do, you maybe haven’t heard much about...
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Stretching Your Produce Budget Further
Anyone who has made a simple budget has struggled with making their food budget fit with the rest of the budget. If you attempt to eat healthy, one of the biggest components to a food budget is the...
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Declutter Your House Like You’re Moving and Make Some Cash
It’s been a long, hard winter. In Chicago, this winter ranks as the third snowiest on record, and the temperatures have been bitterly cold. Of course, we’re not alone; much of the country has felt...
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Keeping Up With the Smiths
Keeping up with the Joneses is bad. We know that. From a financial perspective, we spend a great deal of our time overcoming the green monster called envy in order to keep our lives in some semblance...
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Dirty Germy Cash; 6 Reasons I Love Using It Now
I used to put everything on the credit card and pay it off in full every month. Then I took Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University course. Now I use cash envelopes. All of the benefits of cash...
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The Power of Facebook When Planning a Cross Country Move
Are you on Facebook? Most everyone seems to be. After all, Facebook is a great place to catch up with old friends, share photos of your kids (and see friends’ family photos), and even look up what...
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Grocery Shopping Once a Month – Can You Do It?
My husband and I recently bought a house, and we’d like to plump up our emergency fund just in case we have a large house expense. (Because, of course, when you have little savings, expensive things...
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5 Ways to Have a Frugal Halloween
While the marketers would like us to think that Halloween should cost a fortune, it doesn’t have to. On average, Americans in 2013 planned to spend $75.03 on Halloween candy and costumes. (My guess...
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5 Tips to Make Black Friday Shopping Work for You
I’m not a big shopper. Never have been, never will be. However, I do love scoring a great bargain, which is why I do some shopping on Black Friday. However, I always remind myself that even the best...
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Do You Compare Your Finances to Others?
I belong to several Facebook groups, and recently, a woman in one group asked the seemingly innocent question, “What do you pay for cell phones and car insurance?” She added, “We pay $180 a month for...
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Have We Lost the Meaning of Frugality?
My grandparents were married during the Great Depression. Their first few years together were spent in severe economic hardship, and the financial lessons they learned during that lean time never left...
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What’s Your Financial Weakness?
We all have a financial weakness. That one area where we struggle to do the right thing. We might even struggle with deciding what the right thing is. If we remain unaware of our financial weakness,...
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Living on What You Earn Can Make You Feel Broke, and That’s a Good Thing!
Living on what you earn can be a difficult thing. For many, it seems like a little like a foreign language; difficult to learn to do, and backwards. But, if you can learn it, and transform your life...
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4 Ways to Spend Less on Groceries Each Month
Are you familiar with the USDA food plans? These plans state how much food should cost a family each month based on four categories: thrifty, low-cost, moderate and liberal. The plans are updated...
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