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How To Set Your Christmas Budget

11.13.2009

Time is running short. You need to prepare now. I know it seems like Christmas is a long way away. But, it will not be long until Father Christmas is saddling up his reindeer. Today is the day to decide to make 2009 a debt free Christmas. In fact, you are more likely to get through Christmas without any new consumer debt if you set your Christmas budget now. So let’s get started!

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Does Saver’s Remorse exist?

11.08.2009

I just popped open my ING Direct account this morning to find this quote…
“There’s no such thing as Saver’s remorse.” -ING Direct
It is pretty clever and generally I think it is true. You could argue that some people are a bit too extreme about saving money that they fail to live today, so that they [...]

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What is Ebates and why you should care

11.05.2009

I just found out about a couple cool tools to make some cash when shopping online. The first of which is Ebates. I will write about the other one soon. Basically, merchants pay eBates to refer customers to them. eBates then pays a chunk of that back to the shoppers themselves. Win, win, win.

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3 Essential Money Saving Fall Tasks

10.30.2009

Sometimes spending a little money today can save a lot of money tomorrow. Common sayings support this notion: a stitch in time saves nine and don’t be penny smart and pound foolish. A predictable characteristic of the poor is that decisions are made for today without any regard for tomorrow. However, there a few fall [...]

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4 steps to spend your money wisely

10.21.2009

4 Steps To Help You Control Your Spending
Budgeting is essentially the process of asking: should I spend my money on this or that? A person’s income represents the fixed dollars with which they have to spend. When someone sets their budget they must decided (based on their preferences) what to spend on ‘this’ and what [...]

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5 more great uses for vinegar

10.17.2009

I recently wrote about how you can use vinegar to clean your coffeemaker and 8 other ways to use it around the house. Then, I just found this video with a few more great household uses for vinegar. Basically, what I am learning from all this is that vinegar is like duct-tape – in liquid [...]

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How much does it cost to raise a child & 10 ways to cut the cost!

10.15.2009

Young married couples are often looking for the ideal time to have children. They want to be responsible and so they ask the question, “Can we afford to have kids yet?” Essentially, they want to know if their income can cover the cost of raising children.

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5 ways to save money on insurance

10.08.2009

Kiplinger.com recently had a great article about how to minimize your insurance costs and since insurance is one of the things that people commonly pay too much for, I figured it was worthy of a post this week.

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10 easiest ways to save money

10.05.2009

If I am going to do something, I like to do it well and all out. Saving money is no exception. Because of our heavy debt load at the beginning of our marriage, we didn’t have a lot of money to spend. To add to that we were vigorously trying to get out of debt. Needless to say, I looked for just about every way I could to save money.

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How to clean a coffee maker with vinegar and 8 other great uses for vinegar…

09.23.2009

If you have never tried cleaning your coffee pot with vinegar, it really is pretty easy. The video below shows the steps in thorough detail, but the gist of it is simple:
Run a 50/50 mixture of Vinegar and water through the coffee pot. Afterwards you will probably want to do 2 runs with just water [...]

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5 cheap movie-renting alternatives

09.22.2009

While I am not much a TV watcher, Linda and I do watch quite a few movies. But thankfully innovation and technology has driven down the prices of renting movies over the last few years. Between Netflix and Redbox all the rules in movie-renting have changed. The days of driving to Blockbuster and paying $4-$5 [...]

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20 cheap and fun date ideas

09.14.2009

Since these days so many people are looking for cheap date ideas that are actually fun, I decided to create a little list of a few…

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Bing.com Cashback rewards program

09.06.2009

For as much money as Microsoft has been putting into the Bing advertising campaign, I am surprised at how they give very little mention to one of Bing’s best features – their cashback rewards program.

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Espresso Machines: A way for Starbucks addicts to save money!

09.04.2009

Linda tells me that her Lattes that she makes are just about as good as the $4 ones from Starbucks and cost a fraction of the price to make. And with the machine itself only costing about $40, I am pretty sure it has already paid for itself!

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