Tag: money
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Why are you saving?
During the quest for financial independence it’s all too easy to lose the forest for all of the trees. Every now and then it’s important to step back and remind yourself just why you are clipping coupons, why you’ve been depriving yourself of that new car, why you are living frugally. Are you hoarding money…
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The GREAT Coupon Experiment – Weeks 3 & 4; I’m impatient.
The GREAT Coupon Experiment aims to solve a mystery as old as the Sunday insert itself: Is coupon cutting really a feasible way for people with lives and dogs and families to save money? My mother would say, “yes”; I would say, “I don’t know, that’s why I’m doing this experiment.”
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5 Stupid Things You Can Do With Your Money
Surely there are more than 5 stupid things you can do with your money, but I’d be writing forever.
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Festival of Frugality #242: Poor Richard Edition
Welcome to the 242nd Festival of Frugality! This week’s edition is dedicated to none other than Poor Richard himself, Mr. Benjamin Franklin. Although mostly famed for lacking the sense to come in out of the rain, Franklin played a major role in establishing industry, thrift and frugality as American values. Poor Richard’s Almanack was published from 1732 to…
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Independence Day
Sunday marks the 234th anniversary of the creation of the greatest nation the world has ever known. Enjoy these thoughts on money from some of our Founding Fathers and the text of the Declaration whose signing we commemorate this weekend; I won’t pervert them with any of my own interpretations.
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The GREAT Coupon Experiment – Week 2
The GREAT Coupon Experiment aims to solve a mystery as old as the Sunday insert itself: Is coupon cutting really a feasible way for people with lives and dogs and families to save money? My mother would say, “yes”; I would say, “I don’t know, that’s why I’m doing this experiment.”