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Friday, February 26, 2010

Daily Worth, Know Your Worth







From the website...DailyWorth is a free daily personal finance email for women. We deliver practical tips, empowering ideas and the occasional kick in the pants.


Our tips cover self worth, net worth, saving, spending, earning, investing, taxes, entrepreneurship, financial feminism and lots of other things.

Friday, February 5, 2010

MyGroceryDeal.com

MyGroceryDeal.com
From the website..

Compare Advertised Grocery Deals to Maximize In-Store Savings!

  • See current advertised deals at your favorite local stores
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Get Rich Slowly

Get Rich Slowly

From the website...While driving to our monthly book group discussion on Saturday, Kris and I had a conversation with our friend Courtney. Courtney’s family is beginning to feel a financial squeeze. Her husband’s employer is cutting jobs. To keep working, he’ll have to take a pay cut and move back to the position he left a couple of years ago. Complete blog post>


Once-a-month shopping: Save more by shopping less — Research indicates that the less often we shop, the less we spend. Here’s how one family makes this work.

Once-a-month cooking: Cooking for the rushed — My brother is one of many who has found that “batch cooking” helps to save his family time and money.

Keep track of food with a leftovers list — Americans waste too much food. Here’s a way to reduce waste.

How to save hundreds by playing the drugstore game (a guest post from Cathy at Chief Family Officer)

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Always Frugal - Tips for How to Live on One Income

From the website...

Tips for How to Live on One Income


Adjusting to living on one income from two can initially be quite difficult. However, in many ways families living on one income can actually be more secure than families with two incomes. In the book The Two Income Trap, the authors make the case that families who are maxed out living a two income lifestyle often get into financial trouble when one spouse loses his or her job. This happens when two income families have a lifestyle that absolutely requires two pay checks to cover all of their basic expenses such as their mortgage, credit card debt and car loans.
For families living on one income, if the main bread winner loses his or her job, then both the spouse who had been working and the stay at home spouse can look for jobs, thus thus doubling their chances of replacing one income. Full Article>