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frugal tips

Have a problem with too many leftover coins (yeah, you could have worse problems)?  Too lazy to roll up your coins and deposit them in a bank account? Or do you toss aside your coins because they’re so heavy to carry around, and then find yourself breaking bills all the time just to get a [...]

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Everyone knows that saving time and money (or being more efficient and effective with your time and money, if you will) is a key barometer of having control over your life (call it success, or productivity, or whichever you prefer).  Life is a string of time and money yields the string of options and actions [...]

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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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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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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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