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Category Archives: Money
Updated Cost of Food Page
I’ve updated my Cost of Food page to allow you to define who is in your family. So, for example, you can say that your family has one male age 19–50, one female age 19–50, and one child age 2–3. My cost of food calculator will use USDA data to determine the average national monthly [...]
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Cost of Food for a Family of Two
Recently my wife, Becca, and I were trying to come up with numbers for our monthly food budget, but weren’t sure how much to put in. During this process, Becca found a cool page from the USDA that provides monthly estimates for how much food should cost each month based on different budgets. For example, [...]
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Quality of Life Purchases
My wife and I are tightwads frugal. We’ve managed to save a good chunk of money by cutting a lot of the “extras” out of our lives, such as frequent trips to the movies and eating out on a regular basis. Occasionally we have friends or family imply (or sometimes outright say) that we aren’t [...]
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Rhyta Arcade
I’m always looking to start new, zero maintenance sites. A website only has to earn about $1/month in order to be profitable, so even a tiny low-earning site can bring in long-term profit. My latest zero maintenance site is Rhyta Arcade, a free Flash game arcade site. My games come from Mochi (which is great [...]
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Unemployment negotiations