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How to Save Money and Calories on Starbucks Drinks and Lattes

November 7, 2009 · 3 comments

in Starbucks, consumers, drinks, savings, spending

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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Getting Motivated About Tackling Credit Card Debt

August 9, 2009 · 10 comments

in budgets, credit cards, debt, discipline, finances, paycheck, portfolio, spending

To truly become free – and stay free – from consumer debt, it takes a strong shift in mindset, akin to the force of a tsunami (as my blogging colleague Baker from ManVsDebt has creatively put it).
What’s the point of paying off all those credit cards if you’re just going to end up racking them [...]

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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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The Most Important and Irreversible Financial Decision You Can Make

April 29, 2009 · 14 comments

in financial planning, investing, savings, time in the market

It’s not taking out a mortgage.  It’s not marriage.  It’s not even having kids.
It’s time.
The most important financial decision I would argue you can make – one that is inherently irreversible – is when you actually start investing for your future.
I’m sure that no one can reach age 25 in North America without being exposed [...]

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Here’s Why You Should Ideally Have Four Emergency Funds

April 27, 2009 · 16 comments

in emergency fund, financial planning, savings

The recent news emphasis on the swine influenza outbreak in Mexico has got me thinking again about the nature of emergencies in our lives.  We often speak of setting up an emergency fund as a basic of financial planning – and I’m not disagreeing with that – but we also usually tend to lump a [...]

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