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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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: [...]

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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 [...]

I love clothes, especially nice clothes for work but I detest paying the high prices most major stores charge. Here are some places you can get decent clothing and not pay an arm and a leg for them:
Thrift Stores
Probably the cheapest option, thrift stores can contain some great bargains if you are willing to [...]

Every Monday, I provide tip(s) on things you can do to save Money. This article is part of that series.
We recently took a long weekend to the mountains for some well deserved R&R and family time. Given our focus on being debt free we didn’t want to spend a lot of money and [...]

 
In a recent article I compared our budget to a guideline budget from The World’s Easiest Guide To Finances.  One of the areas I identified as a problem for us was eating out too much.  My wife and I spent some time over the weekend talking about this, and decided to reduce the amount [...]

As blog readers, many of you are most likely familiar with RSS as way of reading blog content and being notified of updates.  If you aren’t familiar with RSS, then here’s an overview.  There is also a site dedicated to RSS that provides some great info as well. In addition to reading blogs, [...]

Seldom will your car require maintenance that you can’t do. Most car repairs and maintenance items are fairly simple. Armed with a little knowledge and some basic tool skills, you can save yourself a considerable amount of money doing repairs yourself. Here’s a few tips for making your own repairs and [...]

As a frequent online shopper it can be difficult to find what online merchant carries which items and at which price. Comparison shopping on the internet is one of the key ways to find the best deal and save yourself a lot money. Surfing around the internet to find who carries what and [...]

Romans 8:25 - “If we look forward to something we don’t have yet,
we must wait patiently and confidently.”
When the iPhone was released I had serious phone envy. While I wouldn’t buy one since my company provides blackberry integration nor due to the high price. I do love the interface on the iPhone. [...]

I like to sell things online. Garage sales are great, they are an easy way to get rid of a lot of stuff. The problem is you get nothing for it. Everybody wants something for 10 or 20 cents. Instead, by selling on-line using eBay, Amazon auctions, Yahoo auctions, or Craigslist [...]

I was talking to a co-worker the other about how my wife is really great about purchasing items at the right time. What I mean by this is she waits until items are out of season to buy them. For example, she purchased a pool for our kids (affiliate link) a few weeks [...]

This is a guest post by Michael Martine.
With more and more everyday activities moving from the physical world to the virtual
world, it becomes possible to save money by eliminating redundancies when these
activities create more than one cost. Doing this means you need to actively seek out
opportunities to eliminate redundancy and that you need to feel [...]

1 Timothy 4:4-5 Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it. We may receive it gladly, with thankful hearts. For we know it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
During the summer, one of our more favorite things to do is head down to [...]