Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Cube farms are great for overhearing little bits of random quotable goodness, like this gem from one of my (male) co-workers while he was talking on the phone with his wife (I can only assume):
I like to smell like a man, but sometimes I like to smell like a different-smelling ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
OK, so I'm reading the July, 2009, issue of U.S. News & World Report that my mother-in-law left the last time she visited, and I happen on an article called "Frugal Forever?" written by Kimberly Palmer, senior editor at U.S. News and blogger at Alpha Consumer. (She had several articles ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Dawn over at Frugal For Life discusses some of the ethical implications of stockpiling foods. She gets into a few rules of thumb for testing to see whether stockpiling has crossed into greed, or just plain inconsideration. Talking to the store to have them do a special large-quantity order is ...
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Over at the MBN Forums there was some discussion about a short video presentation called Drive Free, Retire Rich over at Dave Ramsey's website.
The first part of the presentation (up through Slide 11) was very well put together, and showed perfectly the value of buying used over borrowing and buying ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Investing, Retirement | 7 Comments »