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Money Saving Ideas

How’s Your Hair?

by Crystal August 25, 2010 Mission Organic
no-poo hair

Are you taking the no-poo (no shampoo) challenge with us?  Here’s your chance to check in and ask your questions.  You can see my hair in the above photo.  I’ve been no-poo for a while now.  I use a part baking soda/water wash, with part apple cider vinegar/water rinse for my hair.  And if I [...]

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Ebay: Free Auction Listings through September 7

by Crystal August 17, 2010 Income Earning Ideas

Until September 7, 2010 you can list on Ebay for free.  Normally you have to pay a listing fee on top of the percentage Ebay gets when your item sells, but now you can list it for free.  You only pay Ebay their cut if the item sells.  If it doesn’t, then you’re not out [...]

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Ready for the No-Poo Challenge?

by Crystal August 13, 2010 Health and Wellness
No

Depending on who you talk to, experts will say that the average woman exposes herself to anywhere from 130-600 chemicals during her morning routine.  Many of these chemicals are carcinogenic, too.  Just in the shampoos and conditioners there are chemicals like propylene glycol and sodium laurel sulfate.  Even if you don’t consider the other chemicals [...]

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Are Movie Club Offers Worth It?

by Crystal August 12, 2010 Money Saving Ideas

We’ve all seen these movie club offers where you can get so many movies for $1 or something like that.  But then we look into it and read the fine print that we have to buy a certain amount of movies at full price later in order to get those deals now.  So I decided [...]

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How To Shop With Ebates

by Crystal August 10, 2010 Income Earning Ideas

Ebates is partnering with Blog Frog, eight other bloggers and myself to have a Frugal Living Community available for people to connect and talk about all things frugal.  I’ve never really done a “how-to” post for Ebates, so this seems like a great time to talk a little bit more about how it works and [...]

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Free Online Tools for Setting and Tracking Personal & Financial Goals

by Crystal August 5, 2010 Money Saving Ideas

One of the books for the The Thrifty Mama Book Club this August is Your Money, The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth.  J.D.  talks about the importance of setting both personal and financial goals.  If you never set goals for your life, you’re liable to wander around aimlessly and never do anything.  If you aim [...]

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Frugal Living Community from Blog Frog and Ebates

by Crystal August 4, 2010 BlogFrog

Blog Frog and Ebates are teaming up to create the biggest Frugal Living Community on the web.  They’ve partnered with myself and eight other bloggers, to create something that we hope will be a valued resource for all things frugal. If you’ve been around my blog for a while, you know that I love BlogFrog. [...]

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Free Money Management Software from Mint.com

by Crystal July 21, 2010 Freebies

Mint.com is a free money management software available HERE.  With it you can do the following: Understand your money. Have all your accounts in one place. Set goals and budgets. Find instant savings. If you’ve been afraid to budget, or aren’t sure where to start, this might be worth looking into.  Have you used Mint.com [...]

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Ways to Save and Give for Back to School

by Crystal July 21, 2010 Money Saving Ideas

Back to School season is upon us, and that means stores will be clamoring for our business. Once again, those awesome freebies and penny deals are back!  Last year, for about four or five weeks straight, companies were practically giving stuff away in hopes that we would choose their stores over others.  Here’s how you [...]

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