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frugal tips

Save Tons of Money By Eating Super Foods – The Minimal Amount of Food Necessary

June 22, 2009 · 25 comments

in discipline, financial fitness, frugal tips, health, lifestyle design, nutrition, savings, survival, weight loss

This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money.  With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]

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“No-Spend Days:” How Many of Them Can You Fit In A Month?

June 2, 2009 · 13 comments

in discipline, frugal tips, lifestyle design, savings, spending

Extreme frugal living: don’t eat. Don’t spend any money!  Security-driven individuals like me spend a lot of our time planning to make sure we never have to go without or that we’ll never be caught without money when we really need it.  This is the whole idea behind building an emergency fund.  In the past [...]

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Picking Up Pennies, Or, Make Sure You Use Every Cent of Your Paycheck

April 19, 2009 · 7 comments

in frugal tips, paycheck, penny, savings

Let’s say you earn $1,000 per paycheck – you want to have all $1,000 of that, don’t you?  But unless you use a debit or credit card to make your purchases, cash payments mean you’re going to be left over with a bunch of coins.  Many of these will be pennies, and who pays attention [...]

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