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Oct 01 2008, 02:13 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Want to help out the government and your pocketbook at the same time? You can do it by buying surplus government property. Thanks to a post at Greener Pastures: Personal Finance, we found great deals on everything from cameras and calculators to mountain bikes and chain-link fence. We even found corkscrews. This federal government Web site provides links to those states that sell surplus government property to the public. Another site, GovSales.gov, takes you to the inventory of federal government property available for online bids. The selection is impressive. Need a piano? We found several there.
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Sep 30 2008, 03:15 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
By day, Joe Morgan works in the IT field, where co-workers routinely upgrade their personal computers every two or three years. By night, he says, he's like Scotty on "Star Trek," "always beating the odds to do the impossible with limited resources at hand ...." Joe comes by that claim honestly: He has coaxed two PCs to operate for an amazing 10 years each. He explains how to get more life out of your computer in a post at Saving Advice that's written in language non-geeks can understand.
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Sep 21 2008, 06:54 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
On Sept. 27, your local museum might be one of the hundreds nationwide participating in Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day 2008. With an admission card downloaded at Smithsonian.com, you and a friend can spend the day looking at art or whatever else is on exhibit, and it will be absolutely free. (Note: There's a limit of one free pass per household.) You can check online by clicking here to see if museums in your area are included. In fact, a quick check of your home state or neighboring states will demonstrate just how cool museums can be.
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Sep 18 2008, 12:10 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
We've covered some of the ways to avoid paying the top dollar that textbook publishers demand in the U.S. -- like buying used. But if you can't find the book you need at a lower cost here, "SavvyFrugality" has another suggestion: Buy the international edition. Savvy says in a post at Savvy Frugality, "Believe it or not, students in foreign countries pay much less for textbooks than students here in the U.S." But you can find and buy those books online.
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Sep 17 2008, 07:36 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Imagine how much money you'll save if you stop shaving your legs or coloring your hair, or if you sell your kids. Or if -- let's get really extreme here -- you offer your husband's collection of Star Wars figurines for sale on eBay. We all need a laugh today. And you can get more than one from "The top 5 (evil) tips for frugal living" at FruGal.
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Sep 16 2008, 12:37 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Do you want to get free stuff on the Internet with no strings attached and no spam? Incredible as it may seem, you can. Hey, It's Free! makes this guarantee: You will never need a credit card or a single dime to get any of the freebies posted on HIF. The only things you need in order to have an enjoyable time around here is a mailing address and a sense of humor, not necessarily in that order. HIF is one of seven money-saving Web sites recommended in an article in ShopSmart, a product of Consumers Union, the same people who publish Consumer Reports.
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Sep 12 2008, 01:36 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Jacob at Early Retirement Extreme is about to cut his already spartan monthly living expenses in half. How? He and his wife are moving into an RV. This blog is called Early Retirement Extreme for a reason. Jacob, a guy in his early 30s, spent five years saving and investing 70% of his income on his way to a goal of quitting the rat race, and now he's going to save even more.
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Aug 26 2008, 12:58 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
"Captain Frugal" may be a crazy Brit, but he's familiar with that quaint U.S. custom of recycling old toilets as outdoor planters. That, and using old bathtubs as lawn art -- "You can put it next to the toilet!" he observes -- are among his "10 of the strangest things people do to save money" at the Money Saving Blog. As he says, "Some people do some pretty weird things to save the green."
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Aug 25 2008, 02:40 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Do you happen to be in Ghana and want to find free wireless Internet access? Maybe you're in Spain or Hong Kong, just motoring through Hardin, Mont., or in a town near your home. Happily, several resources exist to point you in the right direction. Shaula at Your Mileage May Vary compiled a number of them for readers in a post called "Finding free Wi-Fi."
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Aug 13 2008, 10:50 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Kimberly Palmer at U.S. News & World Report went to the Web to find extreme savings ideas, and she came up with some doozies. At the top of her list: Baking Bites' instructions for baking cookies on the dashboard of your hot car. Our pick for most extreme is moving in with the parental units, no matter how old you are.
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