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You might schedule your day up to the last minute with Important Things to Do — but for a happy, healthy life, don't forget about these 14.
How to Furnish Your Home for Less Than the Cost of a Moving Truck
Don't rent that pricey moving truck! Instead, opt for buying inexpensive, high-quality used furniture. This guide tells you how and where to shop.
Ingenuity: The Ultimate Frugal Skill
At Wise Bread, we talk a lot about frugal skills. But in many ways, there's one skill that trumps them all — ingenuity.
Best Money Tips: Ways to Save Money on College Textbooks
Today we found some awesome articles on saving on college textbooks, never wasting money on spoiled food again, and surprising times when your credit counts.
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Our Obsession to Clean is Making Us Trashy
I hate to clean just as much as the next person, so many of the new products on the market can be helpful to my daily routine. Others, however,
Best Money Tips: Increase Your Income This Year
Today we found some stellar articles on increasing your income this year, why you shouldn't engineer your own layoff, and organizing your way to savings in 2013.
When Location Isn't King: How to Choose Income Rental Property
They say location is key when you're buying a home — but what about when investing in a rental property? Don't get stuck in the red!
Foreign exchange class action settlement
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The many uses for empty plastic bottles
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Trent Reznor giving away new Nine Inch Nails album
Music fans of the world, unite. The very cool Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (or who basically IS Nine Inch Nails), is letting fans download the entire new album The Slip free at
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Control Your Debt With an Annual Clean Sweep
Do you use credit to manage cash flow fluctuations or to live beyond your means? Here's a simple, practical test for keeping your debt under control.
Lessons in Simple Living From Extreme Minimalists
You don't have to forsake your worldly possessions to find bliss, but we can all live more frugally — and more elegantly — by learning from those who have.
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