Summerside PE offers quite a low cost of living, and for the time being, any other place we try to live will need to compare favorably on basic living expenses. For our purposes, “basic living expenses” includes housing, taxes, insurance, food, electricity, heating or cooling, and communications. Put differently, we need to be warm, dry, [...]
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At iwillteachyoutoberich.com, Ramit Sethi asked this recently: It seems like 98% of personal-finance material (blogs, magazines, books) focus on spending LESS — keeping a budget, saying “no, no, no” to lattes, jeans, and vacations. Why? Why don’t they cover earning more, or negotiating, or increasing your responsibilities at work, or understanding the psychology of your [...]
I had started to write this post as “Saving money at the Farmer’s Market*.” But then I realized that I don’t actually believe in saving money at the farmer’s market: if something looks good or we know we need it, we buy it. We came back from our very first market trip saying, “Well, I [...]
I have just now read an article at consumerist.com that gives 15 ways to save money when shopping for groceries. We do not hold saving money as our primary concern when shopping for groceries, but the desire to save money does inform our decision-making when our other basic rules don’t do the job, so we [...]
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