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This year, Americans are expected to drop $5.8 billion on Halloween, with most people spending $66.28 per person. About 1/3 of that is candy. Zombie Girl The rest? Costumes and decorations. $4,000,000,000 on costumes and decorations. That’s a lot of freakin’ money. Over the years, I have certainly spent more than my fair share on building that number. [...] September 27th, 2010 | Tags: Craigslist, Halloween, holiday | Category: Finance | 2 comments | Subscribe |
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Image via Wikipedia This weekend marks the beginning of Halloween at Casa del Myhouse. We’ll start setting up our yard display tomorrow. If we’re lucky, we’ll be featured on TV again. Don’t miss a thing! Please take a moment to subscribe to Live Real, Now by email. The Best Posts of the Week: Bill and Ted is coming [...] September 25th, 2010 | Tags: Festival of Frugality, Halloween | Category: Finance, Life, Misc | 2 comments | Subscribe |
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Image via Wikipedia One of the first steps in clearing up your financial mess is to set up a budget. You need to figure out how much money you are making, how much you are spending, and what you can do to keep one of those numbers smaller than the other. If your income is smaller than [...] September 24th, 2010 | Tags: budget, Dave Ramsey, iPhone | Category: Finance | 13 comments | Subscribe |
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Image by Paul Vivier via Flickr Investopedia ran a post on 20 lazy ways to save money. I thought it was worth sharing my take on the post. 1. Schedule automatic payments. I do this obsessively. I run all of my regular payments through my bank’s online bill-pay. I think there are 2 bills that get paid manually; [...] September 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Balance transfer, credit card, Links, Money, Television | Category: Finance | 5 comments | Subscribe |
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