My Daily Dollars

On the road to financial freedom, one day at a time

Our Big, Fat, Semi-Frugal Decision

November 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments · debt

So, a week away from the blog and guess what happens?
I buy a new car!
Eep!
Yesterday, my post about how blogging can help you improve your finances ran on Being Frugal.  Re-reading the post reminded me how much I do depend on the blog to keep me on the straight-and-narrow financial path.  I haven’t been blogging [...]

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One Weekend to Shop

October 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments · shopping

It must be something about fall, but it seems that people have wardrobes on the brain these days. Maybe Sarah Palin’s $150,000 shopping spree has us all secretly salivating at the idea of buying clothes. For most of us, it’s time to be much more frugal about our clothes shopping. I’ve come across several great [...]

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Stress-Free Back-to-School Shopping, teenage angst included

August 6th, 2008 · 8 Comments · parenting, shopping

August is one of my very favorite months, partly because my birthday arrives, but mostly because I love back-to-school shopping.  As a teenager, this was the one big splurge I got on clothes (the other came at Christmas).  My mom wisely kept clothes-shopping to a semi-annual event.  We’d have one marathon day where we’d hit [...]

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