Frugality

True cost to own an iPhone – $1 million

I have been drooling over the iPhone® for quite some time now. I don’t have one now, so I am not really sure how useful it would be but it sounds very handy. Everything is literally at your fingertips. I could browse, tweet, update my facebook, read office mails and look up pretty much anything, [...]

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How to plan a cheap summer vacation – 20+ tips to grab the best airline deal!

Summer is here! Schools are out! Its vacation time!! Summer is one of the busiest times to travel, which means it is costlier too. But with some planning and a bit of searching you can make sure you pay the least dollar to get to your destination. Use these 20 tips to grab the best [...]

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It’s Christmas time!

This post is part of a mid year review and tune up series. The next topic in this series will be taxes, yes, time to think about taxes again! No I have not gone mad or lost track of time! I know its still June! But it really is about time to start thinking about [...]

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Five Freebies – meal, dessert, tshirt, good shave and cookbook

Free donuts, Free IHOP mean, Free tshirt, Free fall favorites cookbook and a Free Gillette fusion razor.

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Checking accounts – What are my options?

What is the costliest piece of clothing you have? May be its a wedding gown, or an expensive suit… mine is a t-shirt. It cost me $492. No it is not lined with diamond stones, it just a low quality cotton t-shirt with a bank logo printed on it. Everyone has a checking account. For [...]

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10 Tips for selling on Craigslist

I love Craigslist. I have bought and sold a lot of items on Craigslist. I have bought/sold/given away furniture, electronics, books, jewels and other house hold items. We saved half of our initial emergency fund by selling on Craigslist. Here are some of my favorite tips for selling on Craigslist. Update 03/21/2011 : I wrote [...]

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Thrifty fun – Book lovers edition

I love books! Technical books, story books, fiction, non-fiction, children’s books(!)… One of my major expenditures every month was books. I cut down spending in everything else, but somehow I felt guilty cutting down on book purchases. I justified my purchases by saying that books are knowledge and so reducing the money I spent on [...]

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The Big list of Personal Finance Management Software

Yesterday, I wrote about my experiences on trying out Mint, Yodlee, Wesabe and Thrive. Those are not the only personal finance software applications available. I have compiled a comprehensive list of resources that are available for various platforms, free or otherwise. I plan to review most of them (mainly the free ones). As I review [...]

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