Archive for the Personal Finance Category
Published June 9th, 2008
If you live anywhere there is winter, you’ll understand the pain of trudging through the snow to the grocery store only to find often frost damaged, and unripened vegetables from far, far away. Spring finally gives way to produce that tastes better and is grown much closer to home. Until I had my own vegetable garden, […]
Published June 2nd, 2008
Given the slowly rising cost of many day to day products and services, many of us are having to make some adjustments in our daily lives to help offset these increases. For some of us these changes are necessary in order to not accumulate further debt, for others they are necessary to help pay off debt, […]
Published May 21st, 2008
Well I’m sure this is not the first post to be written about the dollar store, but hopefully a slightly different take than what many people use it for. Here’s a list of the top ten items found at my local dollar store, which I’ve found to be equivalent or the same for a much lower price than at the hardware, department, office supply, or craft […]
Published May 19th, 2008
Over the last couple of months I’ve really sat down and analyzed my statistics carefully to try to get to know my readers better, where they come from and what it is they’re looking for when they come here (not many people leave comments yet). This three word phrase “Value of Life” is the most common search term […]
Published May 5th, 2008
There’s a lot of debate about what it means to be frugal, versus financially responsible, versus just plain cheap. I think the line is different for every individual and their situation. For me, it’s all about value, and not necessarily about cost. It’s important to always get good value for the money I spend, and spending […]
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