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  • My Frugal Insanity

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    Tweet I’ll be the first to admit that there are about 1000 ways that I’m not frugal.  However sometimes I go just a little cuckoo about the stupidest things.    You see, it all started with a couple of unrelated events.   The first was reaching one of my debt reduction milestones and finally taking a breather…

  • US Personal Savings Rate Still Going Up

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    Tweet A few months ago, I wrote an article about the personal savings rate stabilizing and more Americans seemed to be spending money on Christmas in 2010 vs 2009.  I was very curious to see if we’re just stupid Americans who saved a little money and are now off spending like brainless idiots again. So…

  • Extreme Couponing and Obesity

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    Tweet This post has been inspired by two recent articles, one by Money Beagle and the other by Nicole and Maggie.  You see, last week Money Beagle made me aware of a new TLC show called Extreme Couponing.  On the flipside, Nicole and Maggie talk about their organic shopping experiences.  On Money Beagle’s site I…

  • Babci Wears Men’s Underwear

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    Tweet Jockey’s Size 44 to be exact. We women have long known that there is no such thing as gender neutral pricing policies when it comes to things like dry cleaning and  clothing prices.  As much as I try to buy “classic” clothing, women’s fashion changes so often that I end up spending a small…

  • How to Make a Junk Mail Yurt

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    Tweet I’m so excited about the following guest post from Mike and Molly’s House. She is like a younger, slightly less eccentric version of Babci with her own chickens and all.  I’m sure someday her daughters will be blogging about all the crazy things she used to do with raw eggs.  Molly even makes her…

  • Passive Income Ideas ala Babci

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    Tweet I was reading a post the other day by Money Crush on Passive Income Ideas and it inspired me to write a little post about Babci’s little side gigs and how it’s helped her with her personal finances over time.   Money Crush’s article focused on the tech savvy readers and no matter how street…

  • Energy Efficiency Improvements Me vs Babci

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    Tweet As some of you know, the homes that both Babci and my family live in were fixers when we bought them.  My home is now been fully redone but babci’s is still in progress. I thought that today I’d do a little Babci vs Sandy head to head smackdown and see who comes out…

  • Babci Says It’s Never Too Late to Save

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    Tweet Barb Friedberg wrote a post the other day stressing the importance of how to save and she basically said that the earlier you start the better off you are.   Although Babci would agree, she wasn’t able to come to America until she was 36 years old.  She was starting at square 1 with nada,…

  • Little Discoveries while cleaning at Babci’s

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    Tweet I can’t believe 2 months have gone by so fast.  Babci is coming home from Poland this Saturday and we’re all looking forward to her return.  She may even come home to a bathroom that doesn’t have rotten+moldy shower walls, a tub that drains and a new non-stained toilet that has a toilet seat…

  • You can Always Cut More out of your Budget

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    Tweet Sandy, my doppelganger over at Yes I’m Cheap just wrote a beautiful post on Growing Up Poor and Surviving. Her post definitely brought back similar memories, so instead of rehashing my own version, I suggest you head over and go read hers.  I remember living with 7 other people in our little apartment, wearing…