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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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With the previous post, MoneyEnergy acknowledged that it’s time to come to terms with getting frugal.  Usually I prefer to focus on growing income and cashflow rather than cutting back on expenses.  I’m a graduate student.  I don’t even own a bike, pet, TV or a car – how can I be expected to cut [...]

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Anyone here living on less than $12,000/year on their own?  Apparently, the 2008 poverty-line level of income for the U.S. was calculated at roughly $11,000/year.  I haven’t visited every state in my short life yet, but that seems awfully low.  Even if you assume you can find a room to rent for $500/month, that’s only [...]

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Headlines about job cuts, increased costs of energy and food, and failing financial institutions have become impossible to miss, but for many of us those headlines are not news as much as they are reminders of depressed economy. Despite an over-abundance of grim news, however, there are steps you can take to weather this economic [...]

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