The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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A Dozen Money Saving Tips for Gamers

Today’s post is inspired by the awesome 7 Financial Hacks to Avoid from The Free Financial Advisor (also known as Average Joe’s Money Blog) and the beyond generic and boring 29 Ways You Waste Cash article from MSN Money. I am so tired of the same old advice on how to save money. What about those of us who already cut cable and don’t have a morning latte? At the same time, most of us cannotread more…

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My Year Without Money

As regular readers know, my mother-in-law passed away last Friday morning. While C and I are both doing fine, there are a million little things we need to take care of right now. The time has to come from somewhere, and in my case, that means no time to write quality posts for my readers here. Thankfully, I have some amazing blogger friends who instantly stepped up when I asked for help. So for the nextread more…

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What I’m Reading: Still Paying Comcast Edition

While I ponder whether or not I’m going to do anything about Comcast charging me $90/month for internet and one channel (the Discovery channel, everything else I get is a broadcast or PBS station and could be picked up without cable), here’s what I ‘ve been reading this last week.   Over at the Money Principle, John talks about being a baby boomer, and what that means to him in these uncertain financial times. Super Frugaletteread more…

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Birthday Week Links

I am starting with this bit from the pet blogging world. If you are one of those (few) people who reads both my pet blog and this one, I’m sorry for the repeat, but this is too important for me not to post on multiple times., and I know the personal finance blog world is full of generous people who love animals. So… The wonderful family at Kissa-Bull lost their home and almost everything they own,read more…