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Balancing Spending with Saving: Being Frugal but not Miserly

Posted September 21, 2009 - 05:00 by Nora Dunn

Personal Finance, Frugal Living

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Check out your thesaurus, and you may discover that “frugal” and “miserly” share many of the same words as their cousins. Let this be our warning; take frugal too far, and we can become miserly before we even know what hit us. This article explores my own personal struggle between spending and saving – while living on the road. And I need your help!

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The line between frugal and crazy

Posted January 13, 2008 - 11:09 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living

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You don't have to go very far down the path of being frugal to reach the point where people start questioning your sanity. (You bicycle to work? Even though you have a perfectly good car?) On the other hand, there's no idea so crazy that there aren't some frugal folks out there who swear by it. (I hesitate to suggest an example, for fear of offending some of our committed readers.) Still, there is a line where frugality becomes pathology. In fact, there are two lines.  We have names for them.  We call them stingy and miserly.

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