Frugality

How Can Wealthy Families Teach Their Children to Live Frugally?

Quora | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Child Development, Good Parenting, Wealthy, Parenting Tips, Living Frugally, Wealth, Frugal, Parenting, Wealthy People, Frugal Living, Parenting Advice, Frugality, Money News
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This question originally appeared on Quora. By an Anonymous User of Quora We are fairly well off after a few good opportunities in Silicon Valley. ...

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Tips to Fight Frugal Fatigue in Becoming Fiscally Fit

Kathleen Gurney | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Saving Money, Wealth, Personal Growth, Money, Personal Finance, Self-Help, Frugality, Financial Advice, Money News
Kathleen Gurney

We have been a culture of great spenders, living on credit putting off until tomorrow what we should really do today. Our habits are set and it's more challenging to climb uphill than to coast effortlessly in denial of what lies ahead.

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How Restaurants Trick You Into Spending More

Emily Cohn | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Menu Engineering, Defensive Dining, Eating Out, Restaurants, Menus, Reading Menus, Frugal, Money Saving Tips, A Dollar a Day, Eating at Restaurants, Frugality, Money News

Welcome to A Dollar A Day, where every day we'll dish out creative and quirky ways to save on your living expenses. We're not going to tell you to...

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An Ominous Sign For America's Economic Prospects

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Video, Recovery, Inflation, Savings Recovery, Retirement Accounts, College Funds, Savings, Frugality, Weak Recovery, Business News

NEW YORK (Jilian Mincer and Jonathan Spicer) - More than four years after the United States fell into recession, many Americans have resorted to r...

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5 Ways to Improve Your Budget in 2012

Richard Barrington | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Personal Budget, Debt, Retirement, Economy, Inflation, Internet Shopping Tools, Wealth Management, Personal Finance Tip, Managing Your Budget, Credit Card Debt, Frugality, Business News
Richard Barrington

If you've had a tough time controlling your spending in the past, there are good reasons why things could be different in 2012.

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Frugality Fatigue and The Boomer

Ann Brenoff | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Baby Boomers, Nordstroms, Living Frugally, Budget Cuts, Budget, Target, Budgeting Money, Boomers, Frugality, Fifty News
Ann Brenoff

Frugality has left me exhausted. Minding our pennies is tedious. Living in fear of spending is no way to live. And for a boomer -- we who feel entitled to the world's harvest of riches -- living within our means has been a painful adaption.

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Nurturing Our Inner Cheapskate

Lyndall Hobbs | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Frugality, Money Saving Tips, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, American Economy, Fifty News
Lyndall Hobbs

The American economy, alas, still sucks. Unemployment rates are not going down. The recession, like an unwanted guest, is still lurking, apparently determined to stick around for a while.

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Nothing Beats Beating the System

Charlie Carillo | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Push Mower, Supplements, Eccentricity, Home Remedies, Mothers, Frugality, Parents, Great Depression, Fathers, New York News
Charlie Carillo

Waste money on gasoline to run a power lawnmower that fouls the air with its fumes? You've got to be kidding. My dad uses a push mower on his lawn -- one previous owner, Benjamin Franklin.

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Wealth School: Lessons in Creative Frugality

Anne Naylor | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Frugal Living, Wisdom, Living Frugally, Wealth, Real Wealth, Frugality, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

Wealth is not just about amassing material riches, such as living a celebrity lifestyle with all of the goodies, but living well with what you have.

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America's 'Cheapest Family': The Economides Share Frugality Tips

msn.com | Michael Inbar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Economides, who have been living up to their billing as "America's Cheapest Family" since 1982, recently published the latest in their series of f...

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Did you know there is a "Frugal" literature?

Jonathan Ezer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Ezer

In an article in the latest Atlantic Monthly, I just found out about the "frugal" literature. Until today, I had no idea bookstores were teeming with...

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The Economic Recovery Waits For Increasingly Thrifty Consumers

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Commerce Department, Economic Recovery, Personal Income, Consumer Spending, Bargain Hunters, Recession, Frugality, Business News

WASHINGTON — American shoppers are being careful about how much they spend, and that's making businesses cautious about hiring. For the economi...

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How to Cut Expenses in Retirement

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Retirement-Expenses, Chris Farrell, Retirement Plans, Steve Vernon, Frugality, Retirement Planning, Retirement, Business News
Mark Miller

Income and assets are just one set of values in the retirement security equation; on the other side sit lifestyle and spending.

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Credit Where Credit Is Due: Read This Before You Clip That Card

Califia Suntree | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Cards, Consumer Spending, Thrift, Frugality, Economy, Personal Finance, Los Angeles News
Califia Suntree

I've been all too eager to paint credit cards with a broad, tar-black brush. But I can admit when I'm wrong: credit isn't the enemy. Being broke is.

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3 Signs You are Suffering from Lifestyle Creep

Manisha Thakor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frugality, Living Within Your Means, Lifestyle Creep, Budgeting, Saving Money, Saving, Family Budgeting, Business News
Manisha Thakor

Do you ever feel like your possessions are holding you hostage? Or perhaps that you've bitten off more stuff than you can chew? If you've ever suffer...

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Real Food Rehab: The Recession Issue

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canning, Potlucks, Real Food, Organic, Frugality, Recession, Farmers Markets, The Giving Life, Recession Food Shopping, Happiness, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

I have never been so poor in my life. But despite how it appears on paper, there's been an upside to all this. It's easy to focus on what you don't have, harder to celebrate what you do. That, to me, is paramount to happiness.

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Ten Ways to Get What You Want at No Charge (SLIDESHOW)

Minyanville | Scott Reeves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recession Living, Frugal Tips, Recession Frugal, Living, Frugal Living, Recession, Frugality, Business News

The recession is probably taking a bite out of your spending, but it doesn't have to devour your fun. With a little thought and shoe leather, you c...

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Budget Diet

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Recession, Frugality, Spending, Budget, Money Saving Tips, Healthy Living News
Roseanne Colletti

Dieting is no fun, whether it's for your waistline or your wallet. Now that you've accepted that all-purpose truth, get over your fear and loathing and find $100 you don't need to spend each week.

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Darn It!: Recycling Frugality

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elizabeth Gregory

This is new territory for us grownng up in the age of disposability and more, more, more. But it's familiar ground to the old folks, who made it through the Depression and WW2 rationing.

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The Post Crazy Economy

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Wall Street Bailout, Economy, Economic Crisis, Consumer Spending Down, Mortgage Crisis, Addiction, Main Street, Don McNay, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Wall Street Journal, Frugality, Wall Street Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Kentucky, Personal Finance, Business News
Don McNay

To some, the crisis was caused by consumers. It's as if they are unhappy that we're getting our act together. It's similar to a dope dealer getting angry when a customer goes into rehab.

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