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Project Night In And Other Adventures

Spend Time With Friends Shouldn't Have To Be Expensive I think we've all felt a little social pressure to spend money. Whether it's "Hey, let's grab some drinks after work!" or an weekend ski trip around when your bills are due, there are times when you want...

Three Things To Make You Mad

Ignore Them Or Learn About Them: One Way Or Another, They Aren't Going Away So there were multiple things going on in the news this week that would make even an even keeled optimist like myself fume just a little. You have the option of ignoring these things but...

The Comic Laugh Arts Fest In Belfast, Maine

This First Annual Eclectic Festival Makes For A More Interesting "Mud Season" I really admire someone who chooses to hold a festival during Maine’s off-season. Sure, your festival can be a guaranteed money maker if you hold off for the tourists June to...

Medical Insurance Blues

How To Avoid Paying A Lot (Unless You Absolutely Have To) Two months ago, I went to the doctor. I was having some health issues, the doctor ordered the bloodwork to rule things out. How much will it cost? I asked. He said a few hundred dollars. I asked him further...

From The Ridiculous News Desk

Couple Makes Cutbacks We Could Only Dream Of Front page of CNN Money last night: Careers vanish after subprime 'free fall' In case you don't feel like doing the reading, the highlights: First Few Paragraphs: Couple gets canned after industry cutbacks but before that...

Some Marketing Advice?

Some of you may know that I work for a local newspaper. We have a current promotion where local businesses can pay to have a photo and write up about their business in a special section called "Business Neighbors". For $50 a year, this profile and a link to...

The Free Version of Photoshop: Nothing To Get Excited About

This past week, Adobe came out with a free web-based software called Adobe Photoshop Expressions. Marketed for a younger (and subsequently poorer) audience (because Photoshop is, even with a good deal, a few hundred dollars), you upload pictures (they have 2 G of free...

A Look At Extreme Grocery Shopping

People Are Going To New Lengths To Save Cash On Food- Are You? So whether it's the fact that every major news media is talking about the price of food going up (whether it's pizza or groceries in general) or just the fact that I've plateaued on my journey towards...

The Best Of Breaking Even So Far

Maybe you've just started reading this blog or maybe you're wondering what are the most read items on this blog? Here is a top ten list, inspired by another great personal finance blog, FreeFromBroke. Some of these items were surprising, some were less so. (For...

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