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Making The Switch To Save Money: Auto Insurance

June 8, 2009

It’s June and that means my insurance premium on my car is due. I personally have a squeaky clean driving record with no tickets or accidents in over 12 years behind the wheel. Over that time, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a decrease in my premiums. I decided it was time to do [...]

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How Everyone Can Make a Million Dollars by Age 65

June 4, 2009

If you are reading this and hoping for a get rich scheme, I’m sorry to tell you that you won’t find it here. However, keep reading, because you will gain extensive knowledge on how to stop wasting your money and taking essential steps to rid yourself of your debt and save for the future. [...]

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Frugal Millionaires: How They Do It

June 2, 2009

In my daily reading, I came across an article on Yahoo! Finance, written by Jeff Lehman of The Frugal Millionaires, that discussed how frugal millionaires spend their money. It’s not a totally foreign topic to me as I’m familiar with a frugal millionaire family, so I know they are out there. You never know, even [...]

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Spending Too Much? How to Save Money at the Grocery Store - Part 2

May 28, 2009

Of all the categories of our budget, we continue to set records when it comes to coming in under our food budget each month. It takes a lot of work when it comes to planning to make sure we don’t go over budget, and I’ve already outlined a few in my previous article about how [...]

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Hi, My Name is Matt and I’m a Pack Rat

May 26, 2009

There, I admit it! No, I’m not going through the twelve step program to rid myself of keeping anything and everything, but it’s time to take some action. I definitely fall into the ‘what if’ mind game that if I get rid of something, I’ll end up needing it later then forcing me to make [...]

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Seven Lessons I’ve Learned While Being In Debt As a Young Adult

May 22, 2009

I, and now my wife, have been in debt ever since enrolling into college. After college, like many, we both got a good paying job. However, you quickly find that being on your own results in many purchases, most of which are needs in order to live a comfortable life. We all have a cell [...]

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Your Kids Want to Spend More of Your Money, BillMyParents Makes it Easy

May 20, 2009

Hey kids! Want to spend your parents’ money? BillMyParents makes it easy! You thought you’ve heard it all, but yes, there now is a site where it allows kids to request items for their parents to purchase for them. BillMyParents claims to ‘focus on the communication between tween and parent.’ I guess they’ve never [...]

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