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The global economy runs on a binge and purge cycle, which makes it especially difficult to stay steady and mindful on a personal level. It can be hard to resist living beyond your means during boom times, and even harder to keep your head up during the busts. But no matter how stormy it gets [...]

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  Many of you are probably anxiously waiting for Black Friday.   I am sure that are some mighty good deals out there; however, you won’t see me on any line (if I can help it).  Personally, I think Black Friday is a form of torture that should be [...]

Recently, I have been dealing with insurance a lot — i.e., stopping my parents’ premium payments, evaluating long-term care insurance, doing quite a bit of analysis and shopping for better life insurance policies for my wife and I, etc. As expected, one of the insurance sales agents pitched a whole life insurance for my baby [...]

Following the success of previous Frugal of Cheap Test, I am going to throw another one out there for your enjoyment. I hope that you’ll like this Financial IQ Test as much as the last one and find it somewhat educational as well. Please note that I’ve included a link or two for some questions. [...]

Happy New Year! and welcome to the New Year Edition of the Festival of Frugality: “A blog carnival focused on the frugal life and getting that little extra edge out of the products you buy and the services you use.” Considering the holidays, there were quite a bit of submissions over the past two weeks. [...]

This meme was featured in MSN Money Smart Spending — thank you Donna & Karen.
I came across a post by Chris Garrett where he asked Can Bloggers Make a Difference? and encouraged Bloggers to write about environmental issue on October 15, 2007, aka Blog Action Day. Our M-Network members will be participating to support this [...]