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“Live Well & Prosper” ….an un-common-sense approach to life

Still Not Paying Bills Online?

If you don’t have online bill payment set up, you should do so now. Doing so can save you significant time and money over the course of every year, plus it helps reduce your carbon footprint! Following are some incentives for getting started
1. It’s faster. You’ll save your valuable time. Instead of driving to the bank [...]

The Meaning Of Being Frugal

According to Wikipedia, the definition for “frugality” is: “The practice of acquiring goods and services in a restrained manner, and resourcefully using already owned economic goods and services to achieve a longer term goal.”
So that’s the definition. Now what? To understand “being frugal“, we have to understand the definition. So let’s break the definition down [...]

Foreign Currency Exchange Marketplace – A Vital Element Of The Worldwide Economic System

The complex world of foreign currency exchange
The foreign currency exchange market is one of the most critical constituents of the modern economy, and is significantly different from the other major market, the stock exchange. The stock exchange is highly organized with very clearly defined transaction mechanisms, timings and clearing processes. Forex market meanwhile, works mostly [...]

Furniture Worth Hanging Onto

Perhaps your favorite chair is starting to rip and fade and you’re debating whether you should bother reupholstering it or just replace it. In these very difficult economic months, many of us are looking for creative means of saving money, and salvaging something we might ordinarily toss out or donate, is worth considering. here’s how to [...]

Lower Your Monthly Grocery Budget

Angel Food Ministries has been helping people nationwide cut down their monthly food budget since 1994! In today’s economy, for many they are an answer to prayer.
We began running Angel Food Ministries out of our church, here in the greater New Bedford area (Massachusetts) in October of 2008. To be completely honest, when I heard [...]

Curbing Excessive Utility Bills

Given the state of the economy, just about all of us have become a lot more aware of the need to be energy conscious, which often results in searching for creative means of lowering our energy costs.
But no matter how good we may become at this, it seems our utility bills just continue to climb. [...]

Saving Money On School Lunches

Every parent wants to send their child off school with a good, healthy lunch. Mine did. However, many parents mistake a good lunch as one filled with attractively-packaged, sugary, expensive items. This should not be the case. Packing a brown bag lunch will be less expensive than having your child buy lunch. Also, on top [...]

Finish College Faster

A lot of people who plan to go to college would like to finish it as quick as possible. They do not have time or money to take four years and are looking for the best way to finish fast so they can start working full time. This is not true for everyone of course [...]

Nine Tips For Holiday Spending: Tis The Season To Be Financially Savvy!

If you’re like many folks, the approach of this year’s holiday season has you feeling less than jolly. As the economy continues to flounder and the media predicts dismal retail sales, you may find it harder than ever to channel your inner Santa.
Sure, things aren’t perfect. But, before you pack up [...]

Why Have a 2nd Backup Account

Security and stability seems to be the buzz word right now in this period of recession. There could be a number of things that can happen that could literally send your well meaning budget plan down the tubes.
It is a very good idea to always be ready for something unexpected. It might be a job loss or major [...]

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