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Frugality

You are Nothing Without a Good Defense

September 22, 2009

If you don’t have a good defense the other team is just going to run all over you. In the case of your finances the opposing team is spending and emergencies.  If you don’t have a good defense it is going to be an offensive battle that can go either way. Build Up Your Defensive [...]

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DIY Baby Food – A Few Tips and Tricks

September 7, 2009

This is another guest post by my sister JP, she has two kids of her own and in honor of the birth of my second child she coughed up a second guest post about baby food to keep me going until I can get back into this sleep deprived routine. I am going to preface [...]

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Spend Less Than you Earn

August 24, 2009

This could be the simplest, most overlooked, bit of financial advice ever provided. I have not ever read a book or met an advisor who thought it was going to be a great idea to spend as much as, or even worse, more than you earn. This is a true basic principal of managing your [...]

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Forget Cash for Clunkers Increase Your MPG

August 19, 2009

On June 9th i started tracking my fuel consumption with fuelly. I wanted to test out a few Hypermiling techniques to see if you can really save gas by driving consciously. I drove one tank of gas using my easy for everyone hypermiling techniques and one tank of gas like I usually drive (heavy on [...]

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Chickens in Suburbia

August 5, 2009

I was reading an article yesterday in the New York Times that at first seemed like something I would be interested in but made me realize what a ridiculous sounding thought it really was. The article titled “Keeping Their Eggs in Their Backyard Nests” talks about the growing trend of suburbanites starting to keep their [...]

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