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Potty Training Toddlers Can Save Money

May 5, 2009

The following is a guest post written by my wife, The Cavewife. She occasionally writes here about what’s on her heart as a frugal stay-at-home mom.
Potty training for little ones is a whole new journey.  It can be easy or hard, but the idea is your child will do it when he or she is [...]

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Win Free Money by Searching the Web with SwagBucks

May 4, 2009

Over the last 10 years, there have been all sorts of “browse and win”, “search and win”, and “simply be alive and win” sites and I’ve sampled most of them.  A few actually paid out, but many were duds from day one.  Generally, I’ve stopped looking for these deals since most aren’t worth [...]

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Weekend Link Love – Baking Day Edition

May 2, 2009

With the children’s program coming to a close this Sunday at church, I volunteered to bake cupcakes for everyone for the celebration. While my 2nd batch is in the oven, I decided to take a break and share some goodies from other PF blogs from this week.
Carnivals
This week, two articles from One Caveman’s Financial [...]

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Build a Budget You Can Use

May 1, 2009

Last week, I joined the 30-Day Budget Dare.  It had been a while since I actually built a budget and stuck to it, so it was time for me to start one up again.  For the entire month of May, we will live under the budget we drew up.  This experiment should help us get [...]

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The Great Garden Experiment – April 2009

April 30, 2009

Two weeks ago as I kicked off this year’s garden experiment, I was stymied by a long string of Spring rains. Fortunately, the rain held up long enough last weekend to get the garden fully installed.
Saturday, I got up bright and early.  By 10am, I was picking up the first of three pickup truckloads [...]

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We Won Our Property Tax Appeal!

April 29, 2009

This one journey has finally come to an end. No, not the blog – our property tax fiasco.
Just over 11 months after appealing our grossly unfair property tax reassessment to the State Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB), our case has finally been decided.  In case you’ve forgotten the details over the last year and a [...]

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