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Forget about trying to give up a daily latte if it really makes your morning or is an essential part of your coffee shop networking. It’s easier to just save money doing it.
Here are two basic tips for making the most of your latte money at Starbucks.
Misto Instead of Latte: Save $0.50
Your latte is one [...]
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With the arrival of the autumn equinox, it is a good time for many to start thinking ahead to budgeting for the holiday gift-giving season. The holidays are about more than gifts, though – social events, unexpected guests dropping by, more travel plans and decorations for your home all add up to put pressure on [...]
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Planning your graduate career, or just looking ahead to being on the home stretch and getting that thesis out of the way? Don’t just count on the funding you might get from your program or teaching/research assignment. Writing a thesis is the perfect situation for which you should have a solid emergency fund in place.
Your [...]
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Some people may tune out any talk of inflation, chalking its presence in the media up to fear-mongering (a handy scapegoat!) or laughable economic miscomprehension. “Why worry about inflation, when deflation is clearly the threat?,” so many commentators cried a few months ago. But if all one cares about is the short-term, then one won’t [...]
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China was the first to open the floor for discussion on the continued viability of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency a couple of months ago. With good reason, since they are now the largest foreign holder of US debt instruments (that’s the paper money the Fed prints out of thin air). Just [...]
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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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