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Best of Personal Finance: Summer's Bounty Edition

Posted June 26, 2009 - 11:59 by Andrea Dickson

Personal Finance

Storing summer's bounty, saving money on a gym membership, talking about finances before the honeymoon, how to get divorced while the world is watching, buying a car without getting ripped off, stay-at-home dads and more.

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Dumbest packaging ever?

Posted August 27, 2008 - 13:17 by Andrea Dickson

Shopping, Green Living, Lifestyle, Consumer Affairs

I tend to believe that American consumers are savvier than advertisers and marketers give us credit for. That's why I don't understand why marketers waste so much time trying to sell us the same thing in a new box. Surely we know better than to fall for gimmicks like the insult to intelligence that I recently spotted in my local grocery store.

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Grocery Shopping for the Cheap and Lazy

Posted August 6, 2008 - 13:10 by Andrea Dickson

Lifestyle, Food and Drink, Budgeting

Are you a cheap and lazy bastard? Go out for dinner a lot because you can't be bothered with cooking? I'm sure you've heard how to save money by shopping with a grocery list or through budgeting. But you know what? You don't have to; you can be incredibly lazy and still eat well for very little (while avoiding Top Ramen). Dine at home and save a bunch on food without ever making a shopping list.

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Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, By the Month

Posted July 19, 2008 - 10:34 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

Every blogger who writes about saving money, eating healthy or just plain cooking tasty meals tells their readers to choose fruits and vegetables that are in season. I've had just one problem: I don't know what's 'in season.' I vaguely know that apples are harvested in the fall, and I know that my third grade class picked pumpkins the week before Halloween. Beyond that, though, I'm at a loss.

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Are Farmer's Markets Frugal or a Luxury?

Posted May 26, 2008 - 20:32 by Carrie Kirby

Food and Drink

farmer's market produce

Are farmer's markets a luxury or a cost-saving measure? Read how foodies from all over the country compared the costs, and how my visit to the early-season Chicago-area market shaped up.

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Low-Carb: Less Carbon in Your Meals?

Posted May 22, 2008 - 10:44 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

These days, it’s pretty much accepted practice to have a high carbon diet — the tomatoes in your salad may have ridden on a truck for days to get to you and the fish you’re grilling tonight may have caught a trans-Pacific flight to get to your table. We’re talking some pretty high carbon emissions just to make a meal.

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Poem on opting out

Posted October 8, 2007 - 10:21 by Philip Brewer

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Sunflowers

A while back I wrote a piece on Opting out of the money economy, a topic I've long been interested in. Because of that long interest, the poem "Getting By" by Gary L. Lark caught my ear when it was on the most recent Writer's Almanac.

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Opting out of the money economy

Posted 2 years ago by Philip Brewer

Filed Under: Personal Finance, Lifestyle

Boat on pond

It's a quirk of mine that I've always found the idea of opting out of the money economy to be interesting.

I've got a bunch of books on the topic. Books like Possum living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money and How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle.

It's mostly the idea that I find appealing. When I look at the details--the hard trade-offs involved--I find that I come up short of wanting to live that way. But there's a lot to learn from these people, their books, and their lifestyle.

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