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5 Ways to Get Fit on a Budget

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It’s 2012 and you’re still eating donuts?  Put that croissant down and get serious about your fitness goals!  Yes, I did just call you out.  You set a resolution this year and you’re not about to fail, that’s why I’m writing this article! If you tell me money is holding you back, well that’s a bunch of [...]

12 Homemade Valentines Day Gifts

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Before you rush to the grocery store to pick up another cheap bunch of flowers (you know who you are) take a look at these homemade Valentines Day gift ideas.  Forget the idea that Valentines Day gifts needed to be expensive?  Whether you’re looking to make a thoughtful gift for your girlfriend/wife or just need [...]

5 Tricks to Get the Best Deals and Win the Retail War

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Stores and malls have had decades in perfecting their strategies to part someone from their dollars, so in this article I will teach readers how to counter the persuasive retailing revolve around convincing someone that you need the products on display

How To Lower Or Eliminate Your Cable Bill

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Many people are still struggling to cope with their new economic reality after the most recent recession. One of the fastest and most effective ways to make a financial change is to lower your cable bill, or even eliminate it completely.  Here are several options that you have to lower your cable bill.  How to [...]

Money Savings Tip: Maximize Coupon Use and Save More Money!

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Clipping coupons is no longer just the domain of your grandparents! There are serious savings to be made by maximizing your coupon use, and you may not even have to get out your scissors for this money savings tip! With cash still tight for many families it makes sense to get all the money savings [...]

6 Shocking Frugal Lessons from the World’s Richest People

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Did you know that some of the world’s richest people have frugal tendencies? So says Jean Folger, in her article 7 Spending Tips from Frugal Billionaires found on Yahoo Finance. They could buy anything and everything, and yet, they choose to restrain themselves.  Their money tips offers us some good perspective! Take for example, Carlos Slim, [...]

10 Money-Saving Tips to Stash $10,000 – Tip #10

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Tip #10 – Start Packing Lunches! Welcome to our tenth and final day of our journey, where we are looking at 10 money-saving tips to help save $10,000!   This has been a really fun series of posts and it’s garnered a lot of great comments!  Keep ‘em coming everyone! If you missed the introductory post of 10 Money-Savings [...]

10 Money-Saving Tips to Stash $10,000 – Tip #9

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Tip #9 – Negotiate Your Home and Auto Insurance Welcome to day nine of our roughly 10-day journey, where we are looking at 10 money-saving tips to help save $10,000!   This has been a really fun series of posts and it’s garnered a lot of great comments!  Keep ‘em coming everyone! If you missed the [...]