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September 2008

My greatest hits of the last 6 months

September 30, 2008

October will mark the 6 month mark of this blog. As you can see I have written a ton of great posts. You may not have been around in the beginning, so I decided I would start us into fall by looking back at the best frugal how too’s and ways we have saved money. [...]

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Here's how we spent $30.38 & now are getting a $31.08 rebate back!!!!

September 25, 2008

Yup, you read that correctly. The other day we spent $30.38, and now we are getting a rebate for that same purchase, for $31.08. How did we do this? Many of you may not be aware that Walgreens offers products that are free after rebate. To find these products, pick up the Walgreens EasySaver Catalog [...]

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Make Money Online Reading Emails with Hits4Pay

September 23, 2008

One of the things we’ve been trying to do now that I’m not working is make some extra money online. One of the best ways we’ve found to do this is by doing online surveys. Lots of the survey sites let everyone in the household have an account, so both dear husband (DH) and I [...]

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Blog update: Another source of frugal goodness: Money Savin' Momma

September 22, 2008

Well, with trying to keep up with a busy career in engineering as well as maintaining a blog and trying to live frugally and do money saving activities I just don’t always have enough ‘me’ to go around. So rather than sometimes letting the blog suffer for lack of content, I am adding dear wifey [...]

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Cheap home made household cleaners: How to make your own household cleaners for pennies cheap: Save money making your own cleaners

September 22, 2008

Here are some great recipes I started using for home made household cleaners. Vinegar is such a powerful cleaner. Cheap too, like a dollar a gallon cheap. All purpose cleaner, great for everyday/misc use:2 parts water1 part vinegarPut into spray bottle and go to town. Kitchen/bath cleaner:2 cups water1/4 cups vinegar2 tbsp of dish soap [...]

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Free after rebate lookup by state

September 15, 2008

http://www.salescircular.com/ if you go there and click on STATE and then click on FREE AFTER REBATE! it will show you all the FREE things you can get right now in your state. too cool! (much of it is Walgreen’s stuff, but it varies depending on the state you live)

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Debt Snapshot-9-14-08

September 14, 2008

We have been making a bunch of extra snowflakes towards the truck loan and managed to knock down a bunch of he principal this last month or so. Mostly due to living very cheaply (such as eating beans for meals and sacraficing comfort for the name of saving money for debt), and selling everything I [...]

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More proof of payments from legitimate paid survey sites: How we made money with online paid surveys: PROOF !

September 9, 2008

I posted before about my trials of paid surveys, just thought I would give an update. I got a cash crate check again, of all my survey endeavors they are one of the quickest to pay along with mysurvey. I requested a check from survey savvy weeks ago (early August) and nothing yet (a whopping [...]

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