Category: Saving Money on Preps
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Time to Get Realistic About Your Credit Cards
Now that the holiday season is over, we’re into a New Year, and you’ve bought more than you should have from your Black Friday purchases it’s time to get realistic about your credit cards. Yes, those “magical” little cards that let you live beyond your means. I tried to point out a few months ago that Just Because They…
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Be Your Own Handyman… When You Can
It seems to me that one of the MANY skills we’ve lost as a culture–especially as a result of our “disposable” goods mentality–is the ability to fix things and otherwise to make do with what we have. Don’t get me wrong, if I could honestly afford to always call a repairman to fix things for…
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Collect Pocket Change… You’d be Surprised at How Much You Can Collect!
Seeing as though most people (I assume) tend to use credit and debit cards for most purchases these days, cash tends to be far less “valuable” to have on-hand and, oh boy, let’s not consider keeping loose change around… talk about useless these days. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In recent weeks–since…
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Sometimes Preps are Useful Even When it’s NOT an Emergency!
Last week or so our dryer decided it was going to stop working properly. As luck would have it, the washer and dryer and the ONLY two appliances we’re responsible for in our rental contract so until I figure out how to fix it or get someone else to do so, we’re stuck with either…
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Belated Black Friday Advice: Don’t Get Sucked In!
First, I wanted to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. Hopefully, you were able to enjoy a few days off work and to relax a bit. Second, if you’re reading this post now chances are this advice is too late as you’ve likely already done your Christmas shopping but if you’ve yet to do so and are…
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Rent a Home to Save Money, Don’t Buy?
For the longest time the advice of nearly everyone, from your grandmother to your financial adviser is to BUY your home and NEVER to rent… after all, you’re just throwing your money away when renting, right? Well, I’m beginning to differ on this and I’ll explain why in a moment. Currently, you should realize that we’re…
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Cancel Monthly, Yearly Subscriptions: Save Hundreds to Thousands of Dollars!
I’m coming up on my one year anniversary of first signing up for Amazon Prime. Thus far I’ve been fairly happy with the service as I feel like I got more from the subscription than I ever intended. FYI, my entire interest in joining was so that I could get two day shipping on Amazon Prime…
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Turn Down That Thermostat… Put on Some Darn Clothing!
Ever since we’ve moved to the Pacific Northwest I’ve had a slight fascination with our electricity bill, well, after we got our first bill anyway. It was a big one! Or, at least, the bill was much more than I expected. Obviously, these numbers will vary quite a bit from location to location and dependent on…
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Trick Your Kids and Stockpile Their Candy!
Seeing as though today is one of the BEST holidays for kids, I figured I would also point out that today is a great time to potentially “trick” your kids and stockpile a portion of their free candy haul-ins. 😉 Let me explain… In my opinion, most children get entirely too much candy in one day.…