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How to Save Money on Gas
There are many ways to save money on gas besides going out and buying an energy or gas efficient car. When you accelerate your car uses the most gas so in order to get better mileage off of a tank of gas you need to keep the ride smooth. [...]

Top Tips to Save Money on Food
The following are some great ways to save money on food. Most tips are very simple and by changing your eating habits and lifestyle minimally you can save money on food. The first tip is to not do any impulse buying. Plan out what you need for the week [...]

Learn How to Save Money on Bills

Bills always seem to be increasing these days but it is possible to learn how to save money on bills. With only a few simple changes you can save money on bills easily. This can even add up to thousands of dollars each year. A very easy way to [...]

Now with the New Year here and the holidays behind us, it is time to get all caught up on things and back into a normal rythym.  I love the holidays, but everything just seems to get out of whack around then, so it nice when some sense of normalcy returns.  In December, I’d taken [...]

Finally have some good news on the housing front… we are moving on January 20th!  My wife and I had gone to look at a couple of houses that were available for rent and the last one we went to we absolutely fell in love with it.  It was perfect.  Great price, great neighborhood, great [...]

Come across this article regarding how Craigslist isn’t interesting in maximizing profits, but are focusing on the customer experience.  It is amazing how many people don’t get it.
One thing that kind of bothered me is someone called Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist “delightfully communist”. Why communist?  The word “communist” doesn’t quite have the same negative connotation [...]

A while ago, I’d mentioned some problems our neighbors downstairs. Seems the drama continues.
We’ve been in this apartment for a year and a half, and most of the time, we haven’t had much of a problem. Some of the people around us smoke, and it can come in through our slider, but we [...]

As a part of my Christmas shopping, I always like to get something to give to my bosses and other people at work who I regularly deal with at work.  I don’t normally get stuff for others on my own team at work, but I like to for other people who I regularly annoy ask for [...]

Unfortunately, looking over this month’s current progress, it looks like we’re taking a major step back in our debt progress. Despite our payments, it looks like we will be adding on about $2,800 of credit card debt. Several things have been going on this month:
$2,000 in computer hardware purchases. Since Windows Vista [...]

I was not looking forward to compiling our networth stats this month because I knew they were going to be bad.  This is the first time we’ve had a somewhat indulgent month since tracking our networth, so now I can see how much of an effect they have and how far they can set you [...]