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I’m still in the middle of reading Countdown, so you get a reprieve from the boring-ass book posts.  Instead, I’ve got a couple of cool things to share with you.
First, you may recall a while back I was plugging for my brother since he and his fiancé were finalists for a free wedding from Bloomington, […]

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Spend all my money

Spin a friend into a chair whilst swing dancing (concussions are bad, mmmkay)

Take 4 different cabs in one night

Hang out with your mom

Stay up till 5am only to wake up at 7:30am only to go back to bed at 9am

Lock myself out of my house

Yeah…did most of that last weekend, so definitely […]

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So I’ve, in general, been exteremely happy with TurboTax, I’ve used it the last 5 years to file my taxes. Sure, I’ve had a hiccup here and there with it importing things from the previous year, but in general those had to do with big changes in my life, like getting married.
Before I filed […]

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Joining dining or store clubs can really be a beneficial thing. Peronally I belong to a few, the one I’ll talk about today is Rock Bottom Brewery’s Mug Club. I’ve been a Mug Club member for a while, though I don’t go to Rock Bottom often (despite it being right next to work). […]

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So Chris and I met with a financial planner last night and it was both interesting and informative. The most notable thing I think we learned is that first time homebuyers can help finance their home through their IRA retirement fund.
Typically when you make an early withdraw from an IRA you are subject to […]

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Kind of crazy that we’ve been able to avoid going to the grocery store since last sunday at this point. We’ve managed this primarly through 2 means. The first is great friends like Clint who cooked for us twice last week. The second is through eating out. I know what you […]

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Chris and I have been watching the housing market with bated breath for the last few months, and will be over the course of the next year, since we hope to buy a home next year. So as opposed to most people, i.e. those who already own property, we are always looking for what […]

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If you live in a city, you should probably invest in a bike. I’m not saying go sans-car…lord knows that my wife and I couldn’t do that. However, having a bike can equal some significant savings in the long term, and a substantial return on investment.
Lets say that you take some form of […]

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Ate lunch today at Pizza-Ria, and I had a 10% off my purchase coupon. That was great, it saved me $0.90! So lets add that to our total coupon savings for the year!

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I neglected to mention a couple of key items in the previous post. First, our total bill, after coupons, was about $44. So we essentially saved 50% off of our total bill ($22.71). Another thing to remember, is that does not include items that were just on-sale. For example, we got […]

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