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Borrowing, renting, substituting, and doing without

Posted March 19, 2009 - 12:20 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living

Piggy bank rests amid the flowers

Finding deals is a key topic on Wise Bread, and for good reason--finding a great price may make something you want affordable and make it easier to stretch your resources to cover your needs. There's a lot here about the tactics of finding good prices--knowing where to look, knowing how to negotiate, being willing to wait, and so on. This post, though, is about four other tactics for frugality--tactics that, for me, make a much bigger difference than finding deals.

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