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Making Do

Frugal Foodie
Fri - Sep 18 09:45pm
Harvest is currently going on around us. We live in Central Illinois where the two main crops are corn and soybeans. It has b...
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A day in the life of Patient Saver

Save More, Spend Less
Sun - Sep 13 05:33pm
Today's been the kind of rainy day I like. Nothing torrential, just a nice, steady rain since early this morning. Like days o...
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When worlds don’t collide

Trying to keep Tabs on my finances
Sun - Sep 06 05:54pm
My life is a string of imposter syndromes.  I was a cop, but I never felt like one, nor quite fit in as one.  I pla...
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August 2026 Net Worth

Firefly's Personal Finance Blog
Tue - Sep 01 09:52am
My TSP hit $1.8m this month for a high of $1.827m, but dropped to just barely under $1.8m by the end of the month. No worries...
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How Smart Manufacturers Protect Capital:...

Arancia's Personal Finance Blog
Tue - Sep 01 02:19am
[b]How Smart Manufacturers Protect Capital: Lessons Investors Often Overlook[/b] Most investors focus on financial instrumen...
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The Latest From The Saving Advice Forums

when you started here...

LivingAlmostLarge • 19 Sep 2026 12:28:59
When you guys started here did you have debt? A lot? A little? Did you change? I was looking back at my Net Worth in 2007/2008 and that was when our debt was the highest. We had around $50k in student loans then in 2010 we got a ...
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Buy for Life Items

bjl584 • 18 Sep 2026 16:14:03
Here are some top items that people are willing to pay more for, as they are considered long term items Do you have anything you can add to this list? Buy-It-For-Life Items People Actually Buy Long-Lasting Kitchen & Cookwa...
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Buying Ford

james.hendrickson • 18 Sep 2026 12:23:15
I just wanted to inform the board that I picked up a few more shares of Ford this morning. I'm liking their new light truck - the Maverick. FYI people - buy those dips....
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$100,000 to spend

bjl584 • 18 Sep 2026 10:33:48
Something fun I saw online. If you are handed $100,000 under the conditions that you can't invest it, use it to pay off debt, or buy/renovate real estate, what are you spending it on? This was hard for me, as I am not a big sp...
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Offer accepted on another rental propert...

bjl584 • 18 Sep 2026 10:32:17
We just got some good news last night that an offer we made on a rental property has been accepted. It was a low-ball offer. The owner had passed, and the son apparently just wanted rid of it. We'll be spending the fall/winter d...
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