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- Spring Gift Ideas Spring is here and now it is time to bring in the gifts to perk up those gloomy glares. After the long winter months, people often enjoy something new to bring in the cheers. Whether you are considering that gift for the yard, or else the gift of humor, spring...
6 Tips for Getting Your Lawn Ready for Winter Even though you may be done with mowing for the year, that doesn’t mean that your lawn doesn’t need more attention before winter strikes. Whether you live in a warm climate or a cold one, by taking the time to take care of your lawn before winter comes, you can...
The Suburban Garden Expirement A vegetable garden can be a great way to save some money and become more self sufficient. Not to mention they can bring their owners hours of "fun" in the yard. We have lived in our current home for almost three years now and we have never had the time...
Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 114. Tomorrow is Taos Cleanup Day, and I will be out working for 4 hours in the morning to clean up trash around town. Of all the places I have lived, this is the single most littered town I have ever been in and it needs all the help we...
Best Home Improvements before Downsizing As baby boomers who are anticipating downsizing, we are thinking about home renovations or upgrades that make financial sense. We want to maximize the market appeal of our home without overspending. So I decided to do a little research in the area of home improvements and particularly their relative cost...- Teach Your Kids To Go Green. This is a guest post from Emily, who blogs at Remodeling This Life about living a simple and frugal life. She's a stay at home mom to 2 kids and enjoys teaching them about the value of living simply and responsibly. Many of us, as adults, have had to change...
Niche Blogging Creates Affiliate Profits Blogging is as hot as a white hot branding iron. So many people are making a full time living from their blogs these days, so it must be easy right? Well it can be...if you do it the right way. Now do not get scared or intimidated as this is...- What's Under Your Grill Whether you barbecue on a popularly priced grill or a top-of-the-line, stainless, multi-burner behemoth, there are some things that don't change. Sparks, spills, grease and flare-ups are inevitable when cooking and eating in your backyard, whether it involves feeding the family or entertaining a crowd. Outdoor living can cause serious damage to a patio, porch or deck in which you've made a substantial financial investment and perhaps devoted many hours of labor.
SA Music Industry on Twitter Last Updated: 31 May 2009 The South African music industry community is slowly waking up to the powers of internet marketing and starting to utilise the services that Twitter has to offer. By Following¹ these musicians on Twitter, you can read about their upcoming gigs and last minute cancellations...- New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build by Better Homes and Gardens If you want to increase the value of your home, one of the best ways to go about it is to have your home professional landscaped. However, this is pretty costly and many homeowners, especially those with green thumbs, like the satisfaction of being able to do it on their...
- Gardens I've been looking into starting a garden for several reasons: I live in an area where we just don't get really fresh fruits or vegetables very often, unless you buy from the farmers themselves. However, most of the farmers are 20-30 miles from our house, which doesn't make for a...
- Setting Up House The following is a guest post from Kimber Chin (http://businessromance.com/) who writes romance novels based in the business world. She also blogs at http://www.nolimitsladies.com/. As a romance writer, I LOVE this time of year with so many couples getting married and buying homes. It makes me think back a decade...
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- 7 Foods to Stop Ignoring These nutrient dense foods may get B-list treatment at the supermarket, but their health benefits deserve top billing.
- Link hopping: Boston fern edition I finally went and bought a Boston fern for our computer room yesterday. I'd been wanting one for months, but kept putting it off. First there were other priorities for our money, and then we went on a couple of vacations. (I didn't want one more thing for someone to...
The Ghosts of Bokor Today I'm off to see the ruins of Bokor, which is one of the main reasons I've come here. Unlike the usual pile of rocks that gets my attention, Bokor is not an ancient site. The Bokor hill station was built in the 1920s as a place for the French...- Announcing Traveling Chili Okay, so I haven't been posting much lately. I promise to get back to my usual posting once a week or so. One of the reasons I haven't been posting is that I've been busy starting yet another web site. The site is now up and running, and is called...
The Tony Hawk Foundation The Tony Hawk Foundation is an organization that is geared towards providing youths with the resources to safely and legally hone their craft of skate boarding. In November of 2008, the entertainment elite and action sport pros met to raise money in the fifth annual Activision Presents Stand Up For...
How Much Does Your Money Matter to You? If you were to ask anyone on the street that question, odds are the majority would answer, “very much.” However, these same people will easily turn around and drop a small fortune on something without a second thought as to how it would return to them. Before you get started...
the four(ty) hour workweek After reading Timothy Ferriss' book The 4-Hour Workweek I was struck by what I viewed as one of his main concepts: work is something to be avoided. The book explains how to set up a business that (largely) runs itself. His idea is to have a passive (for lack...
Dispelling Common College PF Myths Today's guest post comes from Studenomics, a blog that tries to help younger people reach financial independence. It's actually part one of a two part series, so when your done, you'll want to click through to Studenomics to read the rest. If you enjoy reading this guest post then please...- Kiddie credit card swiper a good idea? A friend recently moved to Alabama and sold a lot of her daughter's big toys at a moving sale. We bought a play cashier's station, complete with a play credit card impression machine. It was cute -- you moved the slide back and forth and it came up "approved." I...
- Is Social Security Income an Asset? NO! I just read a very interesting article on Wall Street Journal Personal Finance Section, titled "Save Your Nest Egg, Hold on to Stocks" written by Mr. Zweig (full article HERE). The article surrounds the idea that since your Social Security income stream can be turned into a present value number...
- Blog Spotlight: Everyday Simplicity This is a new frugal living blog with about two dozen posts so far. Rebecca of San Antonio, TX, writes on Everyday Simplicity, a blog that gets into "[o]rganizing and consolidating information dealing with simplifying life, to help those considering a lifestyle change as well as those expert at living...
- August 2008 Finance and Frugality Blog Carnivals We would like to thank the following Blog Carnivals for featuring our posts. (This list will be updated to include future inclusions for the month of August 2008.) Descending chronologically by inclusion date August 17, 2008 The Carnival of Personal Finance #166: Around the World of Commodities! Article: The Financial...
