Friday Frugal Tip – Netflix vs Cable Movies

February 19, 2010
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Entertainment is one place that many people should take a hard look at when trying to reduce the amount of money they spend. One place to start is to review all the subscription based products you are paying for. Many of us have cable, gym memberships, magazines, book clubs, internet, Netflix, computer applications, [...]

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Giving It Up

February 16, 2010
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Today is Fat Tuesday or as we like to call it around here, Paczki Day. I’ve already downed my first paczki of the day. I’m sure their will be more to follow. I almost feel like a sinner for eating one because they are so full of fat and calories. The [...]

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Sunday Morning Clicks – Anniversary Edition

February 14, 2010
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Some of my favorite bloggers have just turned 1 year’s old recently. I wanted to take a few minutes and introduce you their blogs if you haven’t read them yet. I’m sure most of you have since they are some of the big players in the Personal Finance Niche. Come October I’m [...]

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Friday Frugal Tips | Sam’s Club vs Grocery Store

February 12, 2010
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Shopping different stores will bring different results, sometimes they can bring some great savings and other times not so much. There are a lot of people who LOVE shopping at Sam’s Club, Costco, and other warehouse clubs. When I use to be “rich”, I shopped at these stores monthly and spent over two [...]

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How to Create Sinking Funds

February 9, 2010
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One of the best method I have applied to my budget is the Sinking Fund. A sinking fund can best be described as a pool of money that is set aside to cover future payments. Think of it as a piggy bank that you put money into and when the time comes you [...]

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Friday Frugal Tip – Pizza Delivery

February 5, 2010
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Pizza is a great meal. It will remain at the top of list as everyone’s favorite fast food for a long time to come. Judging from my personal experience in the business, the average order for a family of four is between $19 and $25 depending on how many toppings Mom and Dad [...]

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The Millionaire’s Club

February 3, 2010
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I SURE DO. With this post I’m am offically pledging my goal of becoming a millionaire. I’ve been following J. Money at Budgets Are Sexy for a long time. If you don’t already know, J. Money has a Millionaire Dollar Club. To be a [...]

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Net Worth – January 2010

February 1, 2010
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Hello everyone, January is in the books now and it’s to time to hold myself accountable. We’ve continued to shrink our snowball and grow our net worth. Not as much progress as I would like but we did break into the $70,000’s for our debt. Considering we started with over $100,000 I’m [...]

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Sunday Morning Clicks – Relationship Edition

January 31, 2010
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Money and relationships go hand in hand. You must be able to communicate with your significant other if you’re going to have an open and honest financial life together. When my wife and I got married, I took care of all the bills and we never talked about money. I always just [...]

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Home Price Outlook for 2010 and 2011

January 30, 2010

Home sales have been improving to their highest level in more than two years. At the same time it seems that home prices are still falling. Will 2010 begin to level off the decline?
The chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com, Mark Zandi doesn’t think so.
According to Mark, home prices are going to [...]

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