March Income – $3152.88

April 6, 2012

Here is a breakdown of my income for March. Online Income $3014.60 Interest $2.01 Stock Dividends $67.65 Cash Back $30.42 Sell Stuff $16.70 Mystery Shopping $21.50 Total $3152.88 My income from March was actually quite good despite the Google penalties that happened in March.  That is because the effects of those won’t be reflected in [...]

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March Expenses – $3582.70

April 5, 2012

Here is a breakdown of our expenses for March. Household $664 Entertainment $174 Transportation $539.42 Food $577.86 Hotel $440.32 Travel $259.65 Charity $128 Clothing $358.86 Cable/Internet $65.38 Phone $100 Electric $93.47 Health $181.74 Total $3582.70 Our expenses were way too high in March.  This was mainly due to my hiking trip.  Hiking is actually an [...]

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Personal Finance Links – Google Slap Edition

April 3, 2012

A couple of days before I was to leave on my hike I discovered that Google had dropped many bloggers’ Page Rank.  When I checked my sites I discovered that a couple had been knocked down one rank but the other two had been completely stripped of their Page Rank.  This was definitely bad news [...]

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Frugality is not About Deprivation-and Here’s Why

March 28, 2012

The following is a guest post by The Frugal Goddess. The Frugal Goddess is written by Annabel Ascher, a resident of Sonoma County California. She has lived a life of economic extremes, from great fortune to sudden poverty. She relearned the secrets of frugal abundance all over again when her circumstances changed in 2007. Faced [...]

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Is Greed Costing You Money?

March 26, 2012

You may think you are a tight fisted miser because you aren’t playing the lottery or gambling away a lot of money in Vegas. You may not fall for those late night infomercials touting the latest get rich quick scheme in real estate or forex. As a result, you may not view yourself as all [...]

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What Does Rich Look Like?

March 23, 2012

This is a guest post from Jana at Daily Money Shot, a blog about money at the intersection of life, pop culture and everything in between. I don’t know what a rich person is supposed to look like. When I see celebrities or people I think are rich, I don’t notice anything special about the [...]

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Cut Your Expenses By Slashing Your Cable TV Bill

March 21, 2012

The following is a guest post. Do you get a little angry every time you take a look at your cable bill? Have you ever stopped and thought to yourself ” why am I paying this much just for television every month?” If so then you are in the same boat with millions as millions [...]

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Have Credit Cards Let Us Down?

March 19, 2012

Author bio: This is a guest post from Steve who writes about personal finance from his unique perspective at Money Infant. Once you are done here head over there and say hi. Tell him Tight Fisted Miser sent you! It’s a silly question really. Credit cards aren’t like people, they can’t let us down. They [...]

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Five Frugal Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2012

Saint Patrick began life sometime late in the 4th century in Britain as Maewyn Succat. Young Maewyn was kidnapped, taken to Ireland, and forced to herd sheep there. He turned to his faith for comfort, and eventually escaped. After he became a priest in France, he returned to the country he had known as a [...]

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