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The 5 Best Slow Cookers

Slow cookers are one of the best tools for easily preparing frugal, healthy, and delicious meals. Get started with one of these affordable options.

This Is How You Make Restaurant-Quality Pizza at Home

With these simple tricks — and just one piece of special equipment — you can elevate DIY pizza from from flat and soggy to bubbly and sublime.

7 Ways to Make Money During a Semester Abroad

Studying abroad can enrich your life, but deplete your wallet. Offset the costs by earning your keep while you're overseas.

Lessons From My Frugal Father

My dad was a child of the Great Depression, and those challenging years solidified a financial philosophy and simple lifestyle that's worth a new look today.

The 5 Best Yoga Blocks

Take your yoga practice to the next level with the right yoga block for balance and stability. Any of these five best yoga blocks are good bets!

Five More Tips For Eating In Restaurants And Sticking To A Budget

Even if you are working hard to keep your discretionary spending to a minimum, you can still enjoy a restaurant meal once in awhile.

The 7 Easiest Plants to Grow Indoors and Outdoors

With these easy-growing plants, you can add fresh air and color to your home, office, or yard no matter what color your thumb is.

Best Money Tips: 5 More Ways to Screw Your Credit Card Company

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup. In this article, we’ll look at 5 legal ways to get your way with your credit card companies, the 5 grammatical errors that make

10 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Mashed Potatoes

Holiday leftovers are an awesome excuse to get creative in the kitchen. Here are 10 ways to use up that big pot of mashed potatoes.

6 Money Questions You Never Have to Answer

When Nosy Parkers start prying into personal money matters, here's how to shut 'em down.

What if the Mortgage Interest Deduction Went Away?

What would happen if the mortgage interest deduction were eliminated?

How to bake sourdough bread (and save a buck on every loaf)

I doubt if the cost of yeast is really breaking your household budget. If you bake a lot you probably already buy yeast in bulk, so you're not paying the per-packet price anyway.

Save Money on Travel Accommodations

I don't travel just to sleep in fancy hotel beds, and I prefer to keep as much of my travel budget available for entertainment as possible! You might be able to save money on your

Disney Offers Free Theme Park Passes for Volunteering in 2010

Starting in 2010, the Give a Day, Get a Disney Day program will be giving out free tickets to Disneyland or Disney World for those in the United States and Puerto Rico who voluntee

Best Money Tips: Simple Ways to Spread Happiness

Today we found articles on simple ways to spread happiness, free ways to learn self-defense skills, and cleaning mistakes you didn’t realize you were making.

The 8 Types of Bad Bosses — And How to Survive Them

The "bad boss" turns an otherwise good job into a nightmare. But if you know how to deal, you can survive … and even thrive!

5 Scientific Reasons to Ditch the Luxury Brands

Expensive is better, right? Our brains certainly think so, and that can cost us plenty. Learn how your brain deceives you and resist the splurge.

The 5 Charitable Donations That Do the Most Good

If you've got some money to spare, why not consider a donation? These five charities are proven to put your generosity to the best possible use.

7 Great Investments for First-Timers

If you're new to investing and unsure of where to start, don't fret! Check out these investments that are great for newbies.