Best Money Tips: Frugal Family Living
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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on frugal family living, beating Christmas debt, and tips for traveling with your pet.
Top 5 Articles
10 Tips for Frugal Family Living — Live frugally as a family by making your own snacks. [billeater.com]
5 ways to beat Christmas debt — To beat Christmas debt, make sure to plan out your repayments. [Think Money]
Penny-Pinching Tips for Traveling with your Pet — To save money when traveling with your pet, be sure to do your research. [Financial Highway]
11 Productivity Tips That Carried You Through 2011 — As you prepare for 2012, don't forget the productivity tip to write down your biggest wins. [SavvySugar]
Ideas for Staying Busy in Retirement — Keep yourself busy in retirement by writing a book. [Free Money Finance]
Other Essential Reading
The Best Productivity Tech of 2011 — Looking for a breakdown of the best productivity tech in 2011? From to-do lists to calendars to password managers, this list has it all! [Time Management Ninja]
Detecting and Preventing Lifestyle Creep — Make sure your budget is "creep-proof" by maintaining your dilligence about buying bargains. [Get Rich Slowly]
5 Festive Holiday Drinks for Kids — This holiday season, make your kids Elf Warmers with ice cream, butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice. [Parenting Squad]
5 Ways To Improve Your Creativity Today — To get more creative today, try partnering with someone. [American Express OPEN Forum]
The Lost Decade of Investing: Were Stocks Really That Bad? — Why did people lose money in stocks over the last decade? Because they didn't have a diversified portfolio. [Gen X Finance]
News & Events
Radio show on Christmas gifts under $20 — Be sure to listen in to Paula Wethington from Monroe on a Budget as she talks about Christmas gifts on a budget with Mark Benson at 8:40am EST on WMIM My 98.3!
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Great group of posts this week! I love the post by Time Management Ninja, I wonder what next year's best tech will be.
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