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My Daughter Shocked Me With A Credit Card Question

December 17, 2007

This past weekend my daughter made me do a double take! I told you last week about the post Your Children Are Watching. What Are you Teaching? by Being Frugal. In it BF talks about financial responsibility in front of your children and making sure they understand what credit cards are. [...]

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Linkeddy Link Link!

December 14, 2007

Money Smart Life hosted the 130th Carnival of Personal Finance which included my post Family – Can’t Live With ‘Em…Unless It Helps Debt
Plonkee Money hosted the 103rd Festival of Frugality which included my I Want To Save But I Want To SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!!
Web Dosh hosted Blog To Earn which included The BlogRush Game I [...]

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Frugal Places We Shop

December 12, 2007

We live in New York City and as such we probably have access to some of the most luxurious shopping in the world. Luckily for our bank accounts we don’t really visit them.
Here are some of the frugal places we go to shop:
Target – Target’s great! They have a little bit of everything [...]

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Where Did That Coupon Go?!?

December 11, 2007

Just about every weekend we do some sort of shopping. Either we need food, baby supplies, things around the house – there’s usually something we need to get. The three biggies for us are Target, BJ’s Wholesale, and Waldbaum’s. We’re always getting coupons in the mail for Target and BJ’s and at the [...]

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Family – Can’t Live With ‘Em…Unless It Helps Debt

December 7, 2007

I was in the hole for thousands over a few credit cards. I was getting better at paying on time and I was managing to pay more than the minimum due. I was also transferring balances to lower and zero interest rate cards (which had it’s ups and downs). The totals were [...]

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Festive Carnivality

December 7, 2007

Lazy Man and Money hosted the 102nd Festival of Frugality which included my article Don’t Take The Plunge!!
A couple of favorites from the festival are How I Will Be Rich’s Promote Frugality Through Gift Giving and BagLady’s How Much Do You Value Brand Name Things.
Stock Trading To Go hosted the Carnival Of Everything Finance 8 [...]

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Cash Money Life Is My Hero This Week

December 6, 2007

Remember my post We Will Retire? In that I talked about my financial goal of how my wife and I were going to fund our Roth IRA’s in Vanguard for 2008. I also mentioned that the post was inspired by Cash Money Life who was promoting his new Carnival of Financial Goals by [...]

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