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Our Best (Pain-Free) Money-Saving Moves
In this post I will detail how much money we have saved (that is, not-spent) by making simple, painless changes in our life. We really haven’t given up anything by making these choices, although sometimes the workarounds can get a bit creative! I’ve ranked our choices from most money saved per year to least. Moving Closer to Work While Reducing Our Rent Two years ago, Kyle and I were living in a luxury apartment and we really … Read entire article »
Filed under: choices, credit cards, frugality, housing, luxuries, spending
How We Watch All the TV We Want for Free (Including Sports)
Three years ago, Kyle and I took a look at our budget and our newly formed targeted savings goals and realized that our cable package was holding us back. We had much more pressing applications for the extra $80 per month we were paying to have access to those channels. The issue was that we – especially Kyle – love television. I know that’s not a popular thing to say, but we do! We were … Read entire article »
How to Cancel Your Cable When You’re Addicted to a Show
I have observed two kinds of cable subscribers. Some cable subscribers love TV and watch many channels many hours of the day and feel they are getting great value out of their packages. Other cable subscribers hate their high bills and don’t think that they are getting a good value on the programming they consume, but they refuse to cut the cord because they are addicted to one or more individual shows. It may be … Read entire article »
Frugal Practices I’ve Grown to Love
It’s wonderful when a positive, self-beneficial act becomes automatic and even better when you enjoy or look forward to doing it! Being frugal doesn’t come naturally to me; I had to learn many of my current practices over time and fight against my upbringing. My husband will attest that I’m certainly not frugal in all aspects of my spending! But I’m so glad I started doing the activities that I list below because they have … Read entire article »
Filed under: cars, checking, found money, frugality, insurance
Weekly Update 39
I haven’t done one of these in quite a while, but this week I guess I was particularly inspired by all the great posts I read! We finally had a housewarming party so I guess our new place is now officially open for (social) business. We also watched our first basketball game of the season at a friend’s house. We took a look at this year’s TV schedule and it seems that our workarounds from previous seasons will not be as effective. Previously, we were able to watch nearly all the games without cable but this year there are only a few available. So we might need to add cable back in January through April so that we are able to 1) watch all the games and 2) have our basketball-watching … Read entire article »
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Weekly Update 6
This week was spring break at our university and while we didn’t take off work, we did take things a bit easy and tried to catch as much of the ACC tournament as we could. Unfortunately, our team is not going to the finals of the tournament, but I’m still planning to watch tomorrow. Several top-ranked teams lost over the last few days so I don’t feel toooooo bad. We had friends over to watch the semifinals so that’s always fun. I started doing research for a post on the “earned income” aspect of Roth IRA contributions for an upcoming Roth IRA blitz posting that Jeff Rose at Good Financial Cents is organizing. I tried to track down the sources of my funding for my four years in grad school by … Read entire article »
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