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How To Save Money With Coupons With These 4 Simple Steps

January 31, 2012

[This is a guest post from Tim at Faith and Finance, about how to save money with coupons. He and his wife are coupon ninjas and recently wrote an eBook called How To Coupon.] “That’ll be $9.47,” the cashier said as he totaled all our items. It’s always hard to hold back my excitement when [...]

Build Up Your Financial Security In Uncertain Times

January 27, 2012

[This post is written by Derek from Creating A Passive Income. His goal is to explore every single passive income source there is and evaluate their effectiveness and revenue. If you're interested in extra income, be sure to check out his site.] There is a common piece of advice going around between parents and students. [...]

Save Money On Textbooks By Renting

January 25, 2012

One of the most expensive and tedious things I had to worry about in college was purchasing my textbooks for class. I hated trying to find the best deals online, or holding off for the first week or two after classes started, hoping that someone who dropped would try to unload their books at a [...]

Financial Blessings – Reader Stories

January 17, 2012

I recently posted a story about one of the many financial blessings that I have received in my life. It was inspired by a number of people who were anonymously paying off the layaway balances for random Kmart shoppers. We are constantly bombarded with stories of corruption in financial institutions, people taking advantage of the [...]

Holiday Drugstore Shopping: Spent $9, Made $17, And Picked Up A Lot Of Great Products!

January 3, 2012

It’s been a long time since I’ve written about our CVS shopping. Actually, we had to stop because we ran out of room to store all of free/cheap stuff! Now that we are in a larger apartment with more storage room, and we now know that we can donate anything we can’t use, we plan [...]

Unexpected Financial Blessings…What’s Your Story?

December 19, 2011

I came across an article today about anonymous donors paying off layaway balances for various Kmart shoppers. As you can tell from the Kmart Black Friday 2011 ad, they offer a ton of great merchandise around Christmas time! It’s amazing to consider that people still desire to be the source of these types of unexpected [...]

How To Reduce Home Energy Costs

December 18, 2011

[The following is a guest post on behalf of Money Supermarket] As temperatures drop, it is time to get your home ready for the winter. Some locations see lots of snow and below freezing temperatures. For these people, preparing for the winter takes some time, especially when the goal is to try and reduce home [...]

Pay For Spray: Firefighters Let Another House Burn Down Over $75

December 13, 2011

Some of you may remember the story about firefighters allowing a house to burn and pets die over $75 last year. Well, the pay for spray policy strikes again. It happened once again with the South Fulton, Tennessee fire department. Another homeowner was forced to watch their house, and many possessions, burn to the ground, [...]

Why A Consolidation Loan May Be Worth Considering

December 3, 2011

I know that many of you may think I’ve gone crazy with the title of this article – especially since I am trying to pay off debt myself – but I can assure you that I have not. With interests rates being as low as they are right now, this may be a perfect opportunity [...]

Are Your Children Saving For Retirement?

December 3, 2011

[The following is a guest post on behalf of Money Supermarket] As parents, we tend to focus heavily on saving for our children’s college education, but what about their retirement? Yes, as it turns out, it’s never too early to start considering their retirement years, even when they seem so far away now. Are Your [...]