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Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things: 2,317 Ways to Save Money and Time

Save the day with over 2,300 clever, ingenious, smart ways to use everyday household products—all guaranteed to save you time and money! Did you know that tea can hide gray hair? Or that aspirin can revive a dead car battery? How about the power of table salt to make panty hose last longer? Or that shaving cream can remove rug stains? Yes, there’s a treasure trove hidden in your pantry, medicine cabinet, garage, and basement. This remarkable book shares amazing secrets to save you time and money—and shelf space in the process.

How To Save Money & Organize Your Finances: Tales of an Urban Consumer

How do you survive the consumer demands of an urban lifestyle? We rise and shine, hop on the bus or subway and grab a newspaper, cup of coffee, and donut or bagel on the way to work. At lunchtime we dash to the deli to buy a sandwich and drop by the local neighborhood drugstore to purchase a few items. We're too tired to cook by the time we get home and therefore order Chinese take-out for dinner. Before we know it, we've spent 30 bucks, hands down, by the end of the day. Now multiply that by five workdays.

You Can Prevent Global Warming (and Save Money!): 51 Easy Ways

If you follow just the no-cost and low-cost tips in this book, you will save over $2,000 and prevent the emission of 25,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year! A new edition of our classic book with updated information on hybrid cars and a bold new cover.Gallup polls indicate that 70 percent of Americans are concerned about global warming. You Can Prevent Global Warming converts this public concern into positive action, providing simple, everyday things you can do to minimize global warming--and save money at the same time!

How to Save Money Every Day

Tried-and-true money savings techniques from America's Family Financial Expert® show how to painlessly save big bucks on everything from cars to canned corn.

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Internet Dating

For those people who don't have the time to socialize a lot or who don't have the dominant social skills, the internet comes to the rescue. There are a lot of internet dating sites including True.com, Match.com, E-Harmony, and so on. Now with this new found ease of meeting people, a good piece of the population is spending a ton of money for monthly fees when they don't even find the person they're looking for. Now wouldn't it be nice if there was a better way?

Harvard Business Journal

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/index.jsp

A lot of sites try to lure you in by providing articles online for free. The economist and Harvard business Journal are two examples. Both are great magazines and both post a fare amount of their magazine on line for free.

Give them a try,
I try to regularly read both the economist and The Harvard business journal online. A fair amount of the magazine's information is posted for free and you can skim through the articles much faster than the paper editions.

http://www.wikihow.com/Budget-Your-Money

http://www.wikihow.com/Budget-Your-Money

This is an interesting Wiki site that helps to people thinking about budgeting their money.

In very simple terms.
-Calculate your steady income...
-Identify any secondary incomes. bonus options etc...
-Identify your expenses, Fixed expenses and variable.

Tasks,
1. try to cut out your variable expenses... (no brainier, do you really need that Starbucks coffee?)
2. Try to reduce your fixed expenses. (smaller car or avoid new cars)

It's that simple. The money will stop flowing out.

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