Review: 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More

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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest.

One of the most interesting parts of being a popular internet writer that reviews a lot of books is that, over time, I’ve wound up on the mailing lists of various publishing companies. They send me piles of books that might be of interest without ...

4 Ways Reading the Newspaper Will Make You Rich and Famous

Reading the Newspaper

Last year, everyone proclaimed that print newspapers were dying. It turns out that fewer newspapers have gone under than some had predicted, but I don’t think anyone is announcing that newspapers ...

Getting Real Value from Budgets

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When I reached my financial bottom in April 2006, one of my first responses was to simply start reading a lot about personal finance. I checked out a pile of books from the library on personal finance and tackled a lot of different suggestions from those books, along with some of my own ideas that I came up with ...

The Flip Side: What Frugality Gets You

This past weekend, I attended GenCon 2010, a gaming convention in Indianapolis, IN, with a group of several friends. I had been saving up to attend this convention for a while, and that savings consisted largely of money saved in the way I described this morning: making lots of small choices that saved money and didn’t negatively impact my ...

8 Things You Might Not Know About Your Cell Phone Service

With so much technology literally at the tip of our fingers, it is easy to get sucked onto the information highway and wind up blowing a budget just to keep up with the flow of traffic. We all want the latest and greatest stuff but what you don’t know  (and don’t really need) is what could be hurting you in the ...

The Family That Saves Together

My four year old son thinks that the way you get a new video game is by trading for it at the used video game store.

At dinner time, they both eat exactly what their parents eat – and that’s considered normal, as opposed to making them a special kid-friendly meal that racks up the extra food dollars.

My two year old ...

The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Rainy Days Edition

It’s raining outside. My children want to go to the park.

That means it’s time to come up with an indoor solution. That means, of course, that it’s time for an elaborate blanket-and-chairs fort in the living room.

Live Within My Means? How? It’s not too hard to live within your means if you just follow one rule: ...

Save Money on Restaurant Week Deals

Some prix fixe meals offer better bargains than others. How to decide.

Eleven Effective Ways to Reduce Your Laundry Costs

The Bucket

We currently have five people living at our home. Let’s say, hypothetically, we all change clothes twice a day (it’s often more than that due to the nonstop accidents, spills, and other things that go on in such a household). That’s ten outfits’ worth of clothes to wash each and every day. We also cloth diaper our ...

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