Almost Frugal » The ABCs of Saving Money http://almostfrugal.com Learning about frugality Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:45:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The ABCs of Saving Money: E is for…http://almostfrugal.com/2010/07/05/the-abcs-of-saving-money-e-is-for/ http://almostfrugal.com/2010/07/05/the-abcs-of-saving-money-e-is-for/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:00:18 +0000 Kelly http://almostfrugal.com/?p=5147 The ABCs of Saving Money will appear occasionally throughout 2010. Envelopes The Envelope System is one of those things that is often (always?) mentioned when you first start talking about trying to save money. I’m not a big fan of it, but others swear it works. By budgeting each paycheck, and separating the different categories [...]

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]]> http://almostfrugal.com/2010/07/05/the-abcs-of-saving-money-e-is-for/feed/ 4 The ABCs of Saving Money: D is for…http://almostfrugal.com/2010/05/07/the-abcs-of-saving-money-d-is-for/ http://almostfrugal.com/2010/05/07/the-abcs-of-saving-money-d-is-for/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 10:00:28 +0000 Kelly http://almostfrugal.com/?p=4684 The series The ABCs of Saving Money will appear occasionally throughout 2010. Day-to-Day Your day-to-day decisions have a huge impact on saving money. When you get discouraged (another d-word!), think about all the frugal things you do. But resist the temptation to spend more, because you’ve saved money on something- that 50% off sale price [...]

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]]> http://almostfrugal.com/2010/05/07/the-abcs-of-saving-money-d-is-for/feed/ 7 The ABCs of Saving Money: C is for…http://almostfrugal.com/2010/02/15/the-abcs-of-saving-money-c/ http://almostfrugal.com/2010/02/15/the-abcs-of-saving-money-c/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:00:39 +0000 Kelly http://almostfrugal.com/?p=4230 The ABCs of Saving Money will appear throughout 2010. Cash One of my problems with cash is that when I have it in my wallet, it gets spent, and quickly. It’s easier to spend small amounts when you have cash (€1.05 for a baguette here, €3.50 for a sandwich there) and because there is no [...]

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]]> http://almostfrugal.com/2010/02/15/the-abcs-of-saving-money-c/feed/ 7 The ABCs of Saving Money: B is for…http://almostfrugal.com/2010/02/03/the-abcs-of-saving-money-b-is-for/ http://almostfrugal.com/2010/02/03/the-abcs-of-saving-money-b-is-for/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:12:47 +0000 Kelly http://almostfrugal.com/?p=4213 The ABCs of Saving Money will appear throughout 2010. Bank accounts How many bank accounts do you have? Do they cost you money or save you money? (Do you even know the monthly charges? I don’t.) My husband and I have had separate bank accounts for a long time, but it in fact costs us [...]

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]]> http://almostfrugal.com/2010/02/03/the-abcs-of-saving-money-b-is-for/feed/ 4 The ABCs of Saving Money: A is for…http://almostfrugal.com/2010/01/25/the-abcs-of-saving-money-a-is-for/ http://almostfrugal.com/2010/01/25/the-abcs-of-saving-money-a-is-for/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:32 +0000 Kelly http://almostfrugal.com/?p=4117 The ABCs of Saving Money was originally going to be an all-in-one post, like my post The ABCs of Frugality: 26 Frugal Concepts. But as I tossed the idea around, and asked others, especially on Twitter, I realized there were too many good concepts to cram them all into one, looong, post. So I decided [...]

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