Archive for the ‘Frugality’ Category
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I'm thinking about living in a van to lower my living expenses. I've already done all the usual frugal stuff but I feel the need to do more. To make any significant reduction now I have to eliminate either my apartment or my car. I decided to ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
There are a lot of things I want to accomplish that I don't get done. I tell myself that this is due to the time constraints imposed on me by school and my job but that isn't entirely true. A recent post at My Money Blog, "The Depressing Truth About ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Last year I was able to successfully turn off my gas and save some money during the summer. I tried to do that again this year but my landlord was uncooperative. He didn't want to go through the hassle of turning off the gas so I am forced to pay ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
This week the Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted by Mrs. Micah and it included my post about my food stamp experience. The carnival is themed around Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've never watched Buffy but since it was created by Joss Whedon who also created the best series ever, ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
When I logged into my latest bank account today I expected to see a bonus of $50 credited to my account. Instead there was a credit of $150. I don't have the terms of the bank bonus with me but I believe they made an error and credited me for ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
JLP at All Financial Matters posted how he could “find” an extra $13,000 per year if he had to and Flexo at Consumerism Commentary followed up with how he could find $10,000 per year if necessary. This led me to analyze how their "money-finding" techniques would work for ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
If you're a regular reader of this blog than you know that I have a hoopty(beat up old car) and think it is one of the better forms of frugal transportation. Trent at The Simple Dollar recently linked to a couple of posts that show why a hoopty is a ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Last month I read a post at Living Almost Large titled "Still Hungry with Food Stamps". It was in response to this CNN article about a woman who found it difficult to feed her and her baby on $280 a month in food stamps. LivingAlmostLarge thought that it ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
David from David Makes Cents and Sean from Financial Ramblings recently had a gas saving challenge. The goal was to see who could get the larger percentage improvement over the EPA MPG estimates. David managed to get 32.257 MPG which compared to the EPA MPG estimate of 29 amounted to ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I received a copy of Passion Saving for review last week. This is the first review copy of a book I've been sent but if there are any other personal finance authors out there who would like me to to review their book feel free to contact me. I won't ...
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