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My New [Lazy] One-Fund Investing Strategy

Today’s post may surprise you, scare you, or even enlighten you (maybe all three?), but I’m sharing it with you anyways because that’s what us financial bloggers do. We dish it out exactly how it...

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Challenge Everything

For 6 years now I’ve been blogging about everything from debt, to budgeting, to saving, investing, home ownership, you name it. And over these years I’ve come to a few conclusions regarding money, one...

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How I’m Saving $100/mo on Our Cell Bill!

You know those questions where people ask you if you could only take one thing to a desert island, what would it be? Well, for me it’s always been my iPhone. The one thing that connects me to the...

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Car Insurance Challenge Rocked: I Now Pay $20/mo :)

15 Minutes can save you 15% on your car insurance? Pshhhh… Try 47%! Yup, in continuation of our Challenge Everything mantra, I am now officially saving money on our car insurance now too :) Now...

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How To Get [Basically] FREE Home Phone Service!

[This is post #1 in a 3-part series on how to save money with your cable, phone, and internet bills. And also how to FAIL at it the same time.] This post is going to be bitter sweet. On one hand I...

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How To Stream Media/Internet To Your TV – For Free! [Plus: Chromecast Giveaway]

[This is part 2 of our 3-part series on how to save money with your cable, phone, and internet bills (while also FAILING at the same time). You can find part #1 here.] We’re back! Last article we went...

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The New “Challenge Everything” Savings Account!

It’s funny that out of all the days to open a new account I choose today – right after my thesis on condensing bank accounts – but I’ve stumbled onto a great way to kick this “challenge everything”...

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Challenge #3 Complete: Saving $50/mo on Cable!

[This is part 3 of our 3-part series on how to save money with your cable, phone, and internet bills (while also FAILING at the same time). You can find part #1 here and part #2 here.] So I totally...

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The “Challenge” Savings Account Total: Month #1

Yo. What’s good y’all? Get into anything juicy over the weekend? We hit up a fair yesterday where Baby Penny and I both slid down the tallest slide we’ve ever seen in our lives. And I won’t tell you...

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Challenge Savings Account Update: $406.60

Already onto month #2 with these Challenge Savings! How fast is time going, eh? Yet another reason to start whatever it is  you really want to be doing TODAY as we’ll just be back here again in...

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“Pop-Pop J. Money – Lil Vee is Up $4,100!”

I got this amazing comment on the blog yesterday and just had to share it with ya… Not only is it chalk full of lessons and ideas, but it’s freakin’ hilarious and gives me a case of the jellies* every...

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Challenge Savings Account Month #3: $1,209.16

Welcome to the third month of filling up our Challenge Everything Savings Account! We hit $1,000 – hot dogs! I can’t claim all the money came from my killer hustling skills (though we did hit 4/4...

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The Cable Diaries – Final Chapter

So, five months ago I decided I was done paying $170.00 every month to our cable provider, and set out to lower it as much as I could without sacrificing quality of life. I didn’t know why we were...

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Challenge Savings Month #4: $2,029.81 [+$800]

Alright alright alriiiight! Welcome to another rousing Challenge update post where I share everything we’ve put into our new savings account here in hopes it motivates you to do the same :) It really...

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Challenge Savings Month #5: $2,954.14 [+$900]

Well that’s been a fast 5 months! Just the other day it seems like I was bitching about my $170 cell phone (and cable!) bills, thinking I’d do exactly what I always do about it over the years –...

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Experiment Updates: Challenge $$$, Digit, Shopping Ban!

So it seems I have approximately a kajillion experiments/challenges/habits going on right now, so rather than spam you with a dozen new “update” posts this week, I thought we’d condense them all into...

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What I’m Doing With All My “Challenge” Savings

If you can believe it, we’re now into month #8 of our 12 month experiment already! And so far we’ve saved a sexy $3,843.70 pretty much out of thin air. Here’s a snapshot of my account: Some of it took...

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Challenge Savings Month #9: $4,485.22

What up, y’all! The Challenge Everything Mission continues! Banking $387.83 more to the pile this month and making our total balance now $4,485.22 after just 9 months… A few months more and we’ll...

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Challenge Savings Update: $4,738.13

Month #10 locked and loaded! Just two more months to go and our 12 month mission of savings will be complete :) Going by pretty fast too, eh? Gotta put those plans into effect TODAY if you want to see...

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Challenge Savings (& Podcast) Update: $4,990.84

I swear we’ve just did one of these like last month? And the month before that, and before that, that, that, that, that ,that ,that , and that? Damn time flies. And don’t worry, if these are getting...

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