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Value Laptops 2022 Want the best value for your money on a laptop in 2022? This is targeted mainly at students and bloggers; people who need...

Link roundup September 2020 Are we still in a recession from COVID? https://earlyretirementnow.com/2020/08/25/the-shortest-recession-ever-my...

Due to severe budget problems, Puerto Rico will have to slash its budget, as announced in February 2017 (see http://www.businessinsider.com/...

Grad Student Blues  How I live on less than $10,000 per year

Your Next Smartphone What to get for your next mobile device? With so many choices, it can be tough to make up your mind! When you consid...

On the website Pretend to Be Poor, Neil and Kalie Brooks advocate the idea that contentment with one's life is the secret to financial f...

Value Laptops 2015 This is an old article and will no longer be updated. Please see my latest version here . It’s no sec...

Froogal Consumption As promised in my previous article on Why Being Cheap Costs More , I expound here on how to shop frugally. Whereas ...

Think being tight-fisted will save you money? Think again! The difference between frugal and cheap is all in your head. Well, more ac...

Froogal College Hacks to Save Money Did your jaw drop when you looked at your bill for the semester? Have you wondered how you can save...

I want to take a moment here to defend the  Millionaire Mindset that I've described before . The point of this approach is to be sa...

Keira Knightley apparently understands the Millionaire Mindset . According to an article at (of all places) Us Weekly, she only pays herself...

Since the recent acquisition of Beats Audio by Apple (a perfect marriage of too-expensive, overhyped consumer products!), Beats is once agai...

This SNL skit is both funny and accurate:  https://screen.yahoo.com/dont-buy-stuff-000000884.html I'm tempted to say things are more c...