I came home this weekend to help my parents permanently purge my old crap. I officially moved out of my family home 15 years ago. My crap never officially moved with me. Perhaps my mom is having a fit of feng shui. Perhaps she’s just sick of all my 80s s$it. Either way, it’s time [...]
Are you dashing out the door without dining on breakfast? Or are you filling a bowl with limp flakes and fluff puffs? Stop starving your metabolism with zero calories or flaky fake foods from bright colored cereal boxes. Skipping the most important meal of the day or filling up on sugary carbohydrate crap is bonkers. [...]
Creating a budget just got sexy, fun, and delicious. I just took a bite out of PearBudget Beta, a web-based application for creating a household spending plan and record. PearBudget is created on the success of the popular PearBudget Spreadsheet, which has been downloaded around the interweb over 100 thousand times. PearBudget is a simple [...]
The carnivals this week are fun, frugal, and fantastic! The Festival of Frugality #118: ABC Edition is being hosted by My Dollar Plan and my visually tasty article on Top Five Frugalicious Snacks is an Editor’s Pick! Thank you so muchly Madison! The Carnival of Personal Finance #145: Baby Education Edition is being hosted by [...]
I am going to share my secret fear with you. My shrouded scare paralyzes me with dread, leaves me speechless, and ties my tongue tight. OK, here goes, I am a terribly shy introvert who cannot stomach the slightest notion of public speaking. Just writing it out strikes terror into my heart, dampens my armpits, [...]
Are you a sneaky snack attacker? Do you feel a painful pang of hunger around 3PM and find solace in a vexing vending machine? Well, stop spending big bucks buying fake foods from vending machines. Eating anything mechanized and labeled H9 or A11 is just silly. Kick those mechanical munchies by attacking nourishing frugalicious snacks. [...]
I’m launching an anti-crap campaign. I want you to say “NO” to buying crap. I can’t think of a better way to improve one’s wealth, health, and self than to kick the crap habit. Like any drug, crap has a cost. Crap hits your wallet, abuses the environment, and needles your health both mentally and [...]
I am humbled and honored to be in three carnivals this week. The Carnival of Personal Finance: St. Patrick’s Day Edition is being hosted by Lynnae at beingfrugal.net. Lynnae has been kind enough to include my favorite Top Ten Fantastic Frugalicious Foods. The Carnival of Debt Reduction: Sub Prime Crisis Edition is being hosted at [...]
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By Kerry K. Taylor
I'm Kerry K. Taylor, the blogger here at Squawkfox.com. See my About Page for the good stuff.
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