Guide to Couponing

by Madison

My New Years Resolution was to stop couponing. Why? Because I got so into it, I ended up spending way too much time on it. I also got some sort of mental block when I went to the store.
If it wasn’t on sale, super cheap, or free I couldn’t bring myself to buy it! We [...]

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I’ve come up with an easy strategy to take the pain out of doing our taxes. We have lots of accounts, but doing our taxes is actually relatively easy based on some simple organization techniques.
Replacing all the forms and data with one list makes the process quick and easy. Here’s how I organize our tax work from [...]

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This is the second post in an ongoing series about about how I organize my finances with lots of accounts; read the first one about bill pay and filing for 181 accounts.
A reader left the following comment in the credit card debate:
I don’t have enough time in the morning to check 89 credit card accounts!  I don’t even want to think of [...]

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This is the first post in a series about Money Matters for All Ages. Sixteen personal finance writers address financial issues from babies to retirement and everything in between. See the end of the article for the entire series.

Photography: Six clones (clowns?) v3 by Spigoo
Our oldest son just turned 2 and our youngest [...]

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I recently got a mailer from Power Tomorrow, a program that encourages a “greater energy-efficient commitment in our lives.” It broke down energy use by category:

The mailer also included some great energy savings tips. I’ve highlighted the easy ones here and added some additional ones: