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Recent Posts Tagged With 'saving money'
- What is The Highest Gas Mileage Car? - The Top 10 Real Cars for $4.00 a Gallon Gas
As gas prices keep shooting upwards, the question of what is the highest gas mileage car is on more people's minds than not. Most people have a limited budget and there's only so much in there for gas, so naturally the search is on to find cars with ...
- One of the Best Reasons to Quit Smoking - You Could Save a Half a Million Dollars!
It's true. Smoking is expensive, and the money saving aspects are one of the best reasons to quit smoking. When you're spending about $4.00 a gallon (soon to be more) for gas and an ear of corn is up to about .50, the last thing you need is another h...
- Fund a College Education – How to Save Money On a College Education
Weather you're funding your college education or a dependent's, the cost of getting a degree has gone up along with everything else. According to the most recent College Board study the cost of living alone, even in the low budget category, is $10,93...
- Legal Movie Downloads - 2 for 1 and Free Trial
Through this weekend CinemaNow is giving people a nice way to save money on legal movie downloads. You'll actually save money in two ways. The movies are 2 for 1, so you'll save money there, and you won't have to fight traffic and pay for gas to go g...
- How to Save Money Building a House
In this economy, how to save money building a house is more important than ever. Because of the relatively soft real estate market, recouping your investment could take much longer than in the recent past, so it will pay off to keep your initial inve...
- How to Save Gas – Tips For Saving Gas
How to save gas is one of the topics of most concern to Americans as we head into the summer driving season. I was shocked to see that according to a survey published in Parade Magazine this weekend, survey respondents listed the price of fuel as the...
- Tips on Saving Money
Here are some tips on saving money you can use every week. It’s far easier to not spend and extra $100 a week than it is to earn an extra $100 a week. Lest you think I’m blowing smoke on this one, walk into your boss’s office this m...
- How to Save Money on Air Tickets
As the cost of fuel spirals through the roof, the cost of many other things is going to go with it. One of the things most affected by fuel prices is air travel. With the increase in fuel prices, the airlines largest single expense is now feeding the...
- How to Save More Money
We all would like to save money. Spending less money is one of the only ways you can increase your wealth. If you spend less money, you increase your realized income. As a continuation from yesterday's post on how to save money, today I'll look at sa...
- How to Save Money – The Biggest Ways to Save Some
If there is indeed a recession on the horizon, the need to economize and get the most for every dollar spent will be paramount for most people. Ironically, massive cutting backs in consumer spending will only prolong any economic downturn, but hey, a...
- Holiday Gift Ideas to Save Money
This is the holidays; that time of year that so many people love, a few hate and many just quietly endure. The feelings of gift giving obligation drive many people foolishly deeper into debt just so they can either feel better about giving, or avoid ...
- Save Money on Organic Foods
More Americans are eating organic and minimally processed foods. A study from Whole Foods in 2004 found that more than half of Americans had tried organic foods, and over 10% eat them regularly. If you can count yourself among that group of eaters, y...
- Free Software to Do Just About Anything – It’s Really Free (mostly)!
In case you haven’t taken a trip down to your local software emporium or looked at the prices on Newegg.com recently, I’ll let you in on a little secret; software’s pretty darn expensive. It’s common place these days to find t...
- How to Save Money on LCD and Plasma TVs and Other Consumer Electronics
Well, it’s that time of year again. Soon there will be some fantastic day after Thanksgiving Day sales. These are known in the retail industry as “Black Friday” sales, because the Friday after Thanksgiving has long been the day that...
- Ways to Save Money
The number one rule for getting debt free; spend less than you make. It’s not rocket science, although it can be pretty tough when all the demands of modern life pile on at once. That being said, you need to spend less than you make if you look...
- How to Save Money on Car Insurance
Car insurance is possibly one of the largest bills you have to pay, after housing, food, and the paying for the car itself. What you pay for car insurance is determined by many things, and thankfully most of them are within your control. There are th...
- Spending Money to Save Money - Are You Getting a God ROI on Your Purchases?
All too often we buy things without really thinking the purchase through. We take it on face value that springing for the upgrade or extra is a good idea if it will save us money in the long term. Unfortunately, in many cases the numbers just don&rsq...
- How You Can Save 50% on Your Cable Bill (and a few other things)
The holidays are coming! You probably gathered that from the way grocery stores started putting out plastic jack o’ lanterns and Frankenstein masks while it was still 95 degrees outside. How much earlier can retailers begin the holiday shopping...
- How to Get a Cheap Vacation – And How Not To
Well summer, and most people’s vacation season is just about over. So, why a post about saving money on vacations now? Well, it’s never too late to save money on anything, weather it’s a vacation, a new car, or tonight’s dinne...
- Ways to Save Money on Things You Do Everyday
It's the little things in your life, those that you do repeatedly throughout the year, that add up. In many cases, you don't think it really matters, but that's where you're wrong, my confused friend. Here are some ways you can save money on those du...
- Where Does Your Money Go?
It’ a great question, and one you should be asking yourself. It’s essential to find out the answer to this in order to analyze your expenses. The financial analysis, in turn will let you determine where you can make spending cuts in the m...
- 3 Quick Money Saving Tips for Your Car
These days when gas is over $3.00 a gallon in many places and cars are, well cars are just too freakin' expensive, every little bit helps. Here are some really quick tips to help you save a little bit of money on your road to getting debt free. Mo...
- More Money Saving Tips
As the western U.S. suffers through a sweltering heat wave, some parts of Idaho and Washington state are hitting temperatures in the triple digits. Billings, MT is forecast to hit 103, Boise ID 101 and Richland, WA should hit 100. While the weather w...
- Avoid Some of Those Nasty Extra Car Repair Fees
If you've had the misfortune to spend a ton of money on car repair lately, you may have actually looked closely at the invoice from your autocare provider to find out why the hell it was so large. After all, spending thousands of dollars on something...
Pay Now, Save Money Later
There are times when we’re tempted to skimp a bit and not do the right thing. For many of us, this definitely extends to maintenance on our vehicles. How many people really rotate their tires every 7,500 miles like we’re supposed to? Prob...
