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• Health: A cheat sheet for living frugally

  Published: August 5, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Frugality, Health, Money

  The Frugalist, a blog about living cheaply, has compiled a list of 147 tips for living a more frugal life. At first glance, these tips might not all be money-saving methods; however, each one can also save you money, stress, or heartache..which is another way to live within your means. My favorites? Delegate tasks (saves you time), cook ahead

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• DIY: Save money with a home energy audit

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Bill Paying, Bills, Diy, Frugality, Household, Money, Personal Finance

  As August rolls along, the temperature isn't the only thing on the rise—so is your energy bill. The US Department of Energy provides detailed instructions for conducting your own home energy audit. You can easily conduct a home energy audit yourself. With a simple but diligent walk-through, you can spot many problems in any type of house.

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• Stuff We Like: decTOP $100 personal computer

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Frugality, Gadgets, Green Computing, Stuff We Like, Web As Desktop

  The decTOP (originally created by AMD) is marketed as a personal internet communicator made specifically for browsing the web. In actuality, decTOP is a fanless personal computer that weighs in at three pounds and runs off of eight watts of power. DecTOP comes without an operating system (though it supports Windows CE and Linux) and although it

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• How To: Get eight watch batteries from a 12-volt battery

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Batteries, Clips, Diy, Frugality, How To, Money, Saving Money, Top, Video Demonstration

  Do-it-yourselfer Kipkay did a little investigating and found that beneath the shell of a run-of-the-mill 12-volt battery was eight watch batteries. Considering watch batteries cost between $4 and $6 a pop, finding eight of them in a $2 battery makes for quite a savings. I guess this isn't surprising since 9 volt batteries are filled with six

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• Is This Frugal? .. Or Just Not Quite Right?

  Published: August 21, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Personal Finance, Frugality

  membership fee, so why not? Frugality is making the most of *your* resources. How can people be called *frugal* if they are reducing their own expenses by grabbing someone else’s resources? Is it *frugal* to take more than your fair share - even if it is free? Just for kicks: some quick calculations for those who are interested in

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• Living frugally -- cutting food costs

  Published: September 10, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Cooking, Eating, Food, Frugal, Frugality, Meals, Money, Saving

  Filed under: Lifestyle, Eating, Whining and DiningWe definitely do not live frugally; we actually live rather extravagantly, eating out several times a week, buying the kids all new toys and clothes, and, admittedly, buying me more toys than I really, honestly, need. And yet, the reality of having children is that every last cent counts -- if not

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• How To: Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt Battery

  Published: September 19, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Batteries, Clips, Diy, Frugality, How To, Money, Saving Money, Video Demonstration

  Looking for AA batteries but don't want to spend hundreds of dollars yearly to power your gadgets? Trim down your spending by hacking into a 6 volt battery, which typically costs about $5. Just open the casing and you'll find a whopping 32 AA batteries. Considering that you can get 8 watch batteries from a 12 volt battery and 6 AAA batteries

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• CoinStar Is It Worth It To Convert Your Spare Change?

  Published: January 25, 2008, 1:10 am

  Tags: Increasing Productivity And Simplifying Your Life, Technology, Coinstar, Finance, Frugality, Lifehacks, Money

  When I was a kid rolling up the spare change to take in the bank, I always wondered why there wasn’t a machine that would do it for you in bulk. Sorting coins mechanically isn’t rocket science; all you need is holes of different sizes. Now we’re in the 21st centuary. We might not have jetpacks but I see these CoinStar sorting

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• The Politics of Frugality?

  Published: March 20, 2008, 9:02 am

  Tags: Economy, Frugal, Jennifer Derrick, Personal Finance, Frugality, Politics

  By Jennifer Derrick Since when did choosing to live a frugal life become a political issue? I don’t make a huge deal about my frugal lifestyle, but when it “shows” in public, more and more people are feeling perfectly free to slap some sort of political label on me. Maybe it’s because it’s an election year, [...]

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• Frugality: Normal or Extreme Behavior?

  Published: April 30, 2008, 3:05 am

  Tags: Frugal, Jennifer Derrick, Personal Finance, Saving Money, Behavior, Extreme, Frugality, Normal, Save Money

  many people today think of frugality they think of a life filled with deprivation and sacrifice. They think of people who are living on the fringe of society; people who make all their own clothes, eschew modern technology, aren’t knowledgeable about popular culture, and mail-order worms for their compost heaps. While some

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• Voluntary Poverty and Escaping the Need for Money

  Published: May 5, 2008, 3:05 am

  Tags: Experiment, Frugal, Jennifer Derrick, Personal Finance, Saving Money, Frugality, Lifestyle, Save Money, Voluntary Poverty

  By Jennifer Derrick A friend and I were talking the other day about jobs and money (actually, we were whining about our jobs and money) and he brought up the concept of Voluntary Poverty. I’ve never heard of voluntary poverty outside of certain orders like monks and nuns, so I asked him to explain. Turns out [...]

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• Ten Ways to Reduce Your Daily Expenses: Part One

  Published: December 28, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Frugality, Budget, Debt Reduction

  The year hasn't ended and most of my Google Search Engine traffic comes from the following keywords: "getting out of debt", "debt reduction", "how to reduce expenses" and "shopping with coupons". That leads me to believe that many, many people not only overspent this holiday season ...they used their credit cards. With that in mind, I decided to

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• Roadmap To A Better Financial Health

  Published: May 9, 2008, 9:00 am

  Tags: Money, Debt Reduction, Emergency Fund, Expense Reduction, Financial Goal, Financial Planning, Frugality, Wealth Building

  you. Reduce Your Expenses (Frugality) Building wealth is like trying to fill a bucket with water - you can’t fill it up if the bucket is full of holes. Your expenses are these little holes. Your first priority is to make these holes smaller, or plug them up entirely. The key objective is to spend less than you earn — or earn

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• Money Hacks Carnival #13 Money Saving Hacks Edition

  Published: May 21, 2008, 7:30 am

  Tags: Money, Career, Carnival, Credit, Debt, Economy, Frugality, Income, Investing, Real Estate, Saving Money, Taxes, Cfl

  care costs. Persistent frugality posted at Chief Family Officer — Chief Family Officer shares a tube of moisturizer led her to think about persistence and frugality. 9 Surefire Strategies NOT to Retire Early posted at nomad4ever — Chris gives us an interesting perspective on personal finance. Some People Think We Are Bad

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• What Would Happen If Everyone Were Frugal?

  Published: May 27, 2008, 3:01 am

  Tags: Frugal, Personal Finance, Saving Money, Shannon Christman, Frugality, Personal Finances, Save Money

  By Shannon Christman Frugality and thrift are far from the predominant mindsets in our culture, even among the multitudes of people who are taking control of their finances and paying down debt. In times past (the Great Depression comes to mind), “thrift” was seen as a virtue, but not so much anymore. Frugality could, [...]

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