Squawkfox: Personal finance blog that makes frugal living fun.

This week has flown by without any strange incidents involving bears, deer, or power outages. Amazing! To celebrate a normal weekend my “better half” and I planted a garden of tomatoes, beans, basil, and sunflowers. I’m hopeful all veggies and flowers survive the feasting eyes of our diverse wildlife here on the ranch. My Australian [...]

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Posting my ravishing red bra this week did some damage to my gmail. Thank you for loving grapefruit, titillating witticisms, and my thoughts on How to Be a Woman. I do have one itty bitty titty confession though. It seems my photograph featuring a fine pair of grapefruits wearing my radical red bra has led [...]

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If you’re visiting from Steve Pavlina.com, then welcome to Squawkfox, where personal finance and frugal living are sexy, delicious, and fun. I’m Fox, the author of this mind-boggling blog. Last week Steve wrote a poignant piece on How to Be a Man, and invited readers to blog a companion piece called How to Be a [...]

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If you’re visiting from beingfrugal.net then welcome to Squawkfox, where personal finance and frugal living are sexy, delicious, and fun. I’m Fox, the author of this personal finance blog. Squawkfox is about how living simply, spending wisely, and investing intelligently impacts your health, wealth, and self. It’s about being honest, creative, and helpful with finances [...]

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This week has been one filled with wacky wildlife and and scary bears. It seems I live next to several bear dens, and well, the bears have awoken from their seasonal slumber. The bears are confused. The bears are grumpy. The bears want food. I’ll be posting my bear story this weekend with all the [...]

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I have a little black bear in my backyard. Our black bull is on the other side of the fence. I’m feeling kinda like the stock market fulcrum. Snicker. I’ll keep you posted as to the bear’s travels, but don’t let this be a sign of market rumbles. I’ve been around bulls for years, and [...]

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Every week I participate in a number of Blog Carnivals. Carnivals are a wonderful way to find and read weird and wonderful writings. Since many hosts have been gracious enough to include my own weird writing, it’s my pleasure to link back to their wonderful work. Here are this week’s carnivals: I really enjoyed the [...]

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I just got back from visiting my folks on the other end of the country. During my week away I cleaned up all my 80s crap, recycled dozens of mixed tapes, and shipped all of my old university text books home. Shipping text books is darn expensive! Ouch! My advice to those with old text [...]

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