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• 03.17.08
  Emergency Funds Are the Coolest Featured, Frugality | (0)

  Bad planning does not constitute an emergency plan. Anonymous As per my family's commitment to live debt free for the purpose of changing the world we have set up an emergency fund. This fund currently contains just about three months of our household expenses, including the amount that we save each month for our irregular expenses. It sits in neat piles of $20 bills in our bank which we can access over this thing that I heard about from a friend called the Internet. If you haven't heard about it yet you really need to get a clue. ...

  Tagged: budgeting, cost of living, credit management, future, life-style choices
  
• 02.25.08
  Foreclosures Are Not Cheap Frugality | (2)

  This weekend my wife and I made our way over to my father's house to help him out with some yard work. On our way there we saw a sign for an open house on a foreclosure. Drunk with HGTV madness we decided that we would stop by and check out the property - you never know how low the price could be. So after doing some work around his house we made a short walk up the street and around the corner to this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Parked outside was a beat-up, white ...

  Tagged: cost of living, future, housing, San Diego
  
• 02.20.08
  I’m Back: Vacation Thoughts, House Hunting, and the Joys of Free Vacations Money Misc. | (0)

  My vacation was a smashing success for anyone interested - and I got to take home some pretty amazing spoils. It's good to be king. It was also the only vacation I have had in recent memory where I actually felt rested and relaxed when it was over - can I get a w00t? We mostly laid low and did some minor hanging out with my wife's family, which always involves a LOT of picture taking and some minor yard work. I'm not the biggest fan of lots of picture but it sure can be ...

  Tagged: cost of living, lessons learned
  
• 01.18.08
  It’s All About the Milk, Baby Money Misc. | (0)

  Have you ever wonder why a gallon of milk costs 43% more than a gallon of gas? Ever wondered why you just couldn't hold down that gallon of milk you tried to drink in under an hour? Well, I have the answer to those burning questions right here: milk is only the most valuable but not-really-that-valuable commodity on the market. You see, according to some guy there is a direct correlation to the production of butter in Bangladesh and the performance of the S&P 500, or at least there might have been one between 1983 ...

  Tagged: cost of living
  

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