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This article is part of my ongoing Money Saving Monday series. You can read the rest of the series here. Have a tip you [...]

Eating out courtesy of MyPoints!

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If you aren’t using MyPoints, you’re missing out on a really easy way to get what boils down to free money. MyPoints is a service that pays you for reading emails and taking short surveys. I generally receive 3-5 emails per day and they take all of 3-5 minutes to read [...]

Save money: buy an engagement ring online!

As many of you that have read this blog for a while know, November of 2006 was a devastating month for my family and I. For the first time in our lives, we visited a pawn shop and sold many of the items we valued, including my most of my wife’s jewelry, my banjo [...]

Dave Ramsey’s Gazelle Budget

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One of the key things you can do to save money is create and follow a budget. I’ve heard Dave Ramsey say many times that when you start following a budget, it’s like getting a raise. I’ve found that to be very true. When you start tracking and pruning [...]

Saving Money with Wachovia’s Way2Save

Wachovia bank recently announced a new program called Way2Save. If you watched the super bowl last night, you were bound to see a few ads for the program. The Wachovia Way2Save program works by automatically transferring $1 from your Wachovia checking account into a high interest (5.00% APY) Way2Save savings account [...]

Money Saving Monday: Saving money with points

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One of the things my wife and I have been trying to do a little more lately is taking advantage of points programs. Points programs provide you with points for doing various things. These points can then be used like cash to purchase items, receive gift cards, and give to [...]

Money Saving Monday - Don’t pay for software, use free software instead!

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One of the many ways I save a considerable amount of money is by using free software. With the advent of Open Source Software there are a number of really great AND free software products available. Software such as Microsoft Office 2007 and Adobe Photoshop are awesome and very sophisticated [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip #21: Buy Refurbished Products

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This article is part of an ongoing series where I write about Money Saving tips and strategies each Monday. You can see the rest of the series articles here.
I’m always on the lookout to save money, but I also understand that you often get what you pay for. Two years ago when [...]

How I saved $1,000’s on remodeling and home maintenance and you can “Do It Yourself” too!

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From Glblguy: This is a guest post by my dad who has been doing carpentry, home repairs and maintenance as a hobby since he was a teenager. My dad is a retired manager from IBM Corporation where he worked for 30 years. I have learned a lot from him [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip Roundup

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It’s new years eve and almost the start of a new year. Since July of this year, I’ve written more than 200 articles and received more than 1600 comments from you. Next to my How to Get Your Finances Under Control, One Small Step at a Time series, I personally enjoyed [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip#20 - Keep the change

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This article is part of an ongoing series where I write about Money Saving tips and strategies each Monday. You can see the rest of the series articles here.
Generally, keeping the change involves telling someone you are giving money too to not bother giving you your change back. Unless you’re leaving a [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip#19 - A better shave for less money

This article is part of an ongoing series where I write about Money Saving tips and strategies each Monday. You can see the rest of the series articles here.
I’ve been shaving using disposable razors since the very first time I ever shaved. Disposable razors work OK, but I never really got the quality [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip#1 Again - PriceProtectr

Back in July, just a week after starting this blog I started my series of Money Saving Monday articles. Each Monday I provide a tip that I use or do to save money. With this being one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year, I thought I would republish tip#1 again, as [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip #18 - Buy Generics

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One of the recent changes we’ve made to our spending is buying generic products. This includes generic branded medicine, food and non-food products. I’ve found that you can save a significant amount of money purchasing generic products and in general with no sacrifice in quality. There are generics for almost everything: [...]

Money Saving Monday Tip #17 - Saving for Christmas

 

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The big shopping time of the year starts this Friday or Black Friday as it is often called. It’s called black Friday as it is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, and frequently moves retailers from “in the red” to “in the black” from an earnings and [...]