August 2009

A Trillion Dollars Visualized

August 31, 2009

Hi All, Sometimes people have a hard time comprehending how much a billion dollars really is. To whit, the good folks at mint.com have provided this handy video to help you visualize what that figure really means.

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Loan Forgiveness for Public Service Employees

August 31, 2009

We wanted to share with our readers a relatively new program that isn’t widely known about from as far as I can tell. The Loan Forgiveness program for Public Service Employees is a program where after 120 payments, or ten years of minimum payments on student loans, they are eligible for forgiveness. The program started [...]

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DINKs Loan on Kiva Again

August 30, 2009

We DINKs have been loaning out money on Kiva.org for a number of years. It doesn’t pay interest and it isn’t much money, but it feels like a good gesture of giving out to the universe. This time around I’ve loaned money to El Paraiso Group in Peru. In the past I’ve donated to someone [...]

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Healthy Food Coupons

August 30, 2009

So last week I did a post on coupon stigma and received a good comment on the need for more coupons for healthier food options. In terms of health food coupons, there aren’t many specific coupons for whole foods such as fruits and vegetables, but keep in mind that you are shaving off a great [...]

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Support your Local Farmer’s Market

August 29, 2009

One of my favorite things about the city where I did my undergrad were the farmer’s markets in the area. I’d wake up (relatively) early on Saturday morning – when it wasn’t football season, of course – and head downtown to check out that weekend’s offerings. I’m not really a vegetable guy (my wife sometimes [...]

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Wealth & Homelessness

August 28, 2009

I love listening to NPR; I never listened to public radio before I moved out here, but now I listen to it all the time. And one of my favorite shows is All Things Considered, a fantastic show that takes an interesting perspective to a wide variety of topics. The other day they had an [...]

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And the Rich Get…Poorer?

August 27, 2009

Most people assume that the rich will always get richer. Wasn’t that the controversy before the global recession took over the headlines? The shrinking middle class? The rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer? That might have been the case before the economic collapse, but things have certainly been different since then. Huge Losses [...]

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Coupon Stigma?

August 26, 2009

On the topic of frugal, one good way to be frugal is to use coupons. Keep in mind all of the handy dandy tips that we have on our new coupons drop down page, but you also might be interested in this study. The Canadian press is reporting that coupon clippers are more likely to [...]

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Extreme Frugality & Freeganism

August 25, 2009

At the risk of sounding trite, the only way we can increase our net worth is to either make more money or spend less money. I know, obvious, right? And it’s a lot easier, and much less time consuming, to focus on the “spending less money” part than the “making more money” part. So most [...]

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DINKs Buy NOKIA

August 24, 2009

Nokia made the cut on my latest stock purchase! We are now the proud owners of just under $3k in Nokia stocks. You might ask, why Nokia? There are a couple of reasons for our purchase, aside from our general process of checking out the value of a stock: 1) Nokia commands nearly 40% of [...]

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