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20 More Signs That You Were Raised by Frugal Parents

Were you were raised by frugal folks? Here are 20 more tell-tale signs that frugality is in your blood.

Save Time and Money With a Monthly Assembly (or Bulk) Cooking Weekend

Imagine all your weekday meals prepped and ready after your commute — and still homemade and frugal. Make it real with your own home-cooking assembly line.

How Much Will Life Insurance Cost?

Life insurance may not cost as much as you think it does. Jeff Rose, CFP, explains the factors that affect how much you pay for your life insurance policy.

The Basics of Asset Allocation

Once beginning investors move beyond indexes and mutual funds, they start to hear about asset allocation. Learn the basics and how they apply to your investment decisions.

Ask the Readers: What Are Your Favorite Healthy Snacks?

Tell us about your favorite healthy snacks and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

4 “Secret” Ingredients for More Delicious Dishes

Check out these four uniquely affordable ingredients that can covertly jazz up your dishes for mere pennies!

Save Money on Baby Goodies With Daily Deal Websites

Babies cost a fortune, but you can find inexpensive baby goodies for less when you look for them on baby-oriented daily deal websites.

Your Website Sucks: Here's What to Do About It

A review of the e-book "Why Your Website Sucks — and How to Fix It," plus other resources to help your website move from sucking to shining.

Diagnose and Improve Your Financial Health: A 10-Item Checklist

If you resolved to take better care of your finances in 2011, learn what to fix first — and how — with this checkup list.

Free Online Tools That Help Organize People

Organizing people ought to be easy, but there's good reason why the phrase "like herding cats" is so popular. Make things run smoothly with these tools.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Big Back-to-School Savings

It seems like back-to-school "must buy" lists get longer every year, but that doesn't mean this end-of-summer shopping tradition has to empty your wallet.

Defining Success: If You Don't Know What You Want, You Won't Know When You've Gotten It

When it comes to your life, what do you want? If you can't answer this question, you won't ever know when you've been successful.

Real eggs

Have you ever eaten an egg from a chicken that lives outside, eating bugs and worms and grubs instead of just chicken feed? You notice the difference as soon as you crack the she

6 Ways of Improving Your Lottery Odds

We're not fans of lotteries — you're more likely to get struck by lightning — but if you must, try these hacks to make your odds less minuscule.

8 Alternative Gift Ideas for Chanukah

From giving handmade items to sharing experiences like storytelling nights, discover wonderful and different ways to celebrate the spirit of Chanukah.

TurboTax: New features, and a chance to win a copy

The kind folks at Intuit have given us some free copies of TurboTax. I snagged one that I'm going to use to do my taxes, and once I'm done, I'll post a review and tell

Change Your Life With a 30 Day Challenge

Self-improvement can be hard, especially if we imagine making a change that will last the rest of our lives. To make a change stick, try it for 30 days first.

Translating Volunteer Experiences to Workplace Credentials

Need ideas for parlaying volunteer hours into skills and experiences valued by employers? Even if you haven’t received a paycheck in exchange for creative ideas, event planning, or

6 Moves to Make Before Cutting Up Your Credit Card

Put the scissors down! If you haven't taken these critical credit card steps, don't cut up your plastic just yet.