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What's It Worth?
EPnews column
on money-saving tips by deB Sechrist:
- Wanting What You Have
- Being satisfied
with what you already have is a notion that our mothers try to
teach us from toddlerhood...
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- An Attitude of Gratitude
- Wondering how
to make it all happen, without overspending our financial or
emotional budgets.
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- Of the Essence
- It's been a
difficult month: I learned just how valuable time can be.
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- Time
- It seems that
we often have to choose between saving time or saving money,
we can't have both. Or can we?
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- Back to School on a Budget
- Lots of little
ways to save big when getting kids ready for school.
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- Frugal Legacies
- Many of us are
frugal because our parents and grandparents are: we find ourselves
doing frugal things because we remember being taught by example.
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- Expert Repair
- How to save
money when you just can't do it yourself.
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- Ms. Fix-it
- If it's something
you'd have to throw out or have someone repair before you can
use it, there's usually no harm in trying to fix it yourself,
and you can save yourself money if (when!) you succeed.
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- Who's Doing the Cleaning?
- Once you find
your level and delegate all you can, learn to accept and not
feel guilty about your decision or your limits.
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- A Stitch in Time...
- Keeping financial
records from piling up on you.
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- Loyalty Doesn't Pay
- Brand loyalty
is one of the pitfalls of couponing.
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- Keeping Healthy During Cold and Flu Season
- It takes a little
time but it's worth every extra minute to save days of illness,
doctor's fees and medication expenses. Prevention doesn't have
to be expensive, either.
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- My Thrifty Valentine
- Ideas for an
inexpensive but romantic Valentine
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- Teaching Our Kids How to Handle Money
- with contributions
from Karen Katchmeric
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- New Year, New Ideas
- Helpful Website
list to inspire frugality.
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- Frugal Resolutions
- If you start
off thinking that you need to tighten the belts this year, that
there will have to be an end to certain indulgences, or that
you will have to somewhere do without, you may be setting yourself
up for failure.
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- The Value of Organization
- Organizing yourself
and your household just once more before the end of the year
can be well worth your time.
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- Ways to Save with Credit or Cash
- with contributions
from Arlene Jacobs
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- Making the Holidays More Affordable
- If you're a
seasoned pro at cutting costs, you might already know the usual
tips for keeping holiday spending under control: set budgets
and stick to them, leave the charge cards at home, make gifts
instead of buying them, wrap gifts in the Sunday comics or use
the inside of paper grocery bags stamped with sponge or cut vegetable
prints.
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- Coupons
- with contributions
from Karen Katchmeric
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- Psychology of Thrift
- If you're having
difficulty stretching that dollar enough to make ends meet and
don't have more time to invest in hunting down bargains or Do-It-Yourself
projects, you can still probably improve your cost-efficiency
by understanding the psychology of thrift.
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