LivingAlmostLarge

This week the tao of making money is hosting the 85th Carnival of Debt Reduction. I submitted my article “disappointed with the women in red,”. Sadly MP Dunleavy and her women friend’s have sort of lost track of the goal of being debt free it seems.
One of those ladies who is not disappointing [...]

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So on Saturday we went out to dinner with friends, again splitting the bill equally, and again pissing us off. Anyway though one of the people we were out with told us something really interesting and cool.
His bonus from the company was a car, toyota prius to be exact. Instead of more stock [...]

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This past week Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski decided to take a weeklong challenge of living off of food stamps. He would have $21 in food stamps for the entire week. Gov. Kulongoski is doing this to raise awareness of the difficulties of living off of food stamps. To raise awareness that government handouts were insuffiecient [...]

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So DH really wants to go on vacation. And no we haven’t got the money for it. But he said a weekend vacation would be acceptable if we went somewhere. I think he’d love a week and we’ll discuss maybe going camping or renting a cabin for a week somewhere close. [...]

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Today I shopped at Walgreens for the first time to do the Easy Saver Rebate. It is a program where you shop and get money back for items purchased. You have a choice of cash back or a Walgreen’s gift card which gives you an extra 10% back on the rebates you earned. [...]

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This week the 71st Festival of Frugality is hosted at the tao of making money. My post about “vacation want or need” was submitted to the festival.
One great article at the Digerati Life was “Do you know how much your car cost you?” I really enjoyed reading it. I’ve thought about dumping one of our [...]

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I am starting to think that DH and I more frugal than I thought. I don’t think we’re living quite as large as I would think we are. I hate to admit it because I feel that we spend A LOT of money very wastefully, compared to our families. Our families are [...]

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This week the 97th Carnival of Personal Finance is at the Endless Gibberish. My post about “jealousy/envy” was included and actually highlighted as one of the three favorite posts in the carnival.
The Endless Gibberish also picked out Everybody Loves Your Money Post about “Top 13 money saving ideas.” This was an absolutely hilarious [...]

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The second edition of the Carnival of the Homeowner is up at Home Insurance lowdown. My article trusting trust deed is up.
I enjoyed this second edition of the carnival. One simple and elegant post was “4 Red Flags for home repair fraud” by my simple trading system. It listed simple 4 things to look for [...]

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Okay so I’ve been spending almost nothing at CVS with coupons this month. And I have enough extra bucks so that I spend almost nothing next month as well. Pretty nice deal, I think I have enough toothpaste 10 tubes to last a lifetime. There’s only two of us and we use [...]

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