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From the monthly archives:
Frugal Dad: Saving With a Purpose: Early Retirement
Enemy of Debt: No More Mondays and Why Every Day is Friday Now
Stay at Home Mom CFO: I would prefer not to have a uni-brow. Better budget for that…
Get Rich Slowly: How to Talk to Your Spouse About Money (guest post by ChildWild)
Relevant Magazine: Straight Talk about Debt [...]
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One of my goal’s for 2010 was to try making homemade laundry detergent. I am happy to say that January has nary gone by and I have not only attempted my first recipe, but it was a resounding success. And not only did I make detergent for laundry, but for the dishwasher as well!
There are [...]
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I have just been dragging my heels writing this post because it is such a sore point for me: When I look back at stupid ways that we’ve spent our money, this one’s near the top of the list.
We bought a timeshare 10+ years ago. Ages ago, it seems. And we’ve had some great vacations [...]
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Toward the beginning of January, I joined a pantry challenge hosted by an amazing blogger who encouraged everyone to clean out their pantries and see how far you could stretch those grocery dollars for the month.
After my 14yo looked into our (crowded) pantry and declared, “There’s nothing to eat in here,” I decided drastic measures [...]
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I just figured out that I made about $257.10 last year in consignments at the thrift store. Not as good as the year before, when I made over $400. But that year we had just moved here and I was finally getting rid of various baby paraphernalia: crib; portacrib; as well as some furniture — [...]
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We got a new garage door opener! Woo-hoo!
The Final Tally: $115.00
The Home Warranty came through (with a little help from Josh The Garage Door Fixer Guy) and covered the replacement of the opener instead of just the stripped gear. Aside from the $70 service call, we are also paying $45 to replace the keypad, which [...]
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Mary Hunt’s Debt-Proof Living: When You Should Opt Out of Credit-Card Rate Increase
Man Vs. Debt: Paying Off a Decade of Debt: A Reader Success Story
Finance for a Freelance Life: Mammoth 2009 Tax Credit and Reduction List
Budgets are $exy: If a millionaire told you how to be rich, would you [...]
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I was half-way through my grocery shopping today when I realized I had walked out of the house without taking cash from the “food” envelope.
The Envelope System
Cash spending is a new thing for me. This is my first month, actually. I’ve started off small — just four categories. (Food; gifts; clothing; and booze.) (Just keeping [...]
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The second half of my guest post is over at $5 Dinners: Tips to Stay the Course and Pay Off That Debt!
I hope you all take a look: it touches on some ideas that I haven’t gotten around to posting about over here in Budgets.
When Erin very graciously offered to host a guest post [...]
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It’s really, really broken.
I sure do appreciate all your tips that came through! I did finally go out in my garage and take a look-see, armed with your imported knowledge as well as the Craftman’s owner’s manual. I even got out some tools and a ladder and some oil and greased the chain, so to [...]
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