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Another school year is around the corner. That means catching the bus, making lunches, after-school drop offs & pick ups—and, of course, back-to-school spending. According to the National Retail Federation, the average family with children up to 12th grade will spend $606 on back-to-school items such as clothing and supplies, up from $548 last year. But you don’t have to break the budget setting the little ones up for success. Here's a short list of ideas to save some cash—and some sanity—when back-to-school shopping.
Shop at home. Have your kids really outgrown all of their shoes and clothing? Do you have an abundance of pens, pencils, folders and rulers? Take an inventory of what your family already owns to
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First off, let’s make it perfectly clear that here at We, the Savers, we typically try our best to steer clear of issues related to bad dates, lovers’ quarrels and other battles of the sexes. But being a Saver is smart, emotional and (to some) sexy—and we wanted to find out how that compares across gender. So we recently asked 1,000 Americans, ages 18 and up, for their take on how money affects romantic desirability. Think you know all about how much money it takes to attract a mate? And how it makes them feel when you spend too little (or too much)? Test your financial mojo with this quiz. Have fun and good luck—your next relationship could hang
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How often do you think about money and saving? Do you ever escape it, or is it always lodged in your subconscious? "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford I think about money all the time, I’m not going to lie. Right now, I’m thinking about money all the time because I don’t have any. We are broke, with Bear still unemployed. It has been a long 8 months, let me tell you. We thought he had a job at the
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Today’s flying machines would amaze and delight Orville and Wilbur Wright, no doubt. But the fares, fees, long lines and increasingly bad service? Probably not what the Wright Brothers envisioned 100 years ago at Kitty Hawk. So, to help celebrate our love of aircraft—and our nostalgia for that bygone era when flight meant no fight — we came up
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How often do you think about money and saving? Do you ever escape it, or is it always lodged in your subconscious? August is always the worst. Not only is it the hottest month of the year. I’m seriously sitting here hoping for a heat index of less than 105 degrees so I can go for an evening run tonight. It’s also the worst bill month. It’s the one regular time of year I transfer money from
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We asked our Customer Bloggers to share how often they think about money and saving. Nancy reflects on her life as a single mom and the money concerns that accompanied it. Click here to read her previous blog posts. 
How often do you think about money and saving? Do you ever escape it, or is it always lodged in your subconscious? “There is only one class of people that thinks about money more than the rich, and that is the poor. In fact, the poor can think of nothing else.” -- Oscar Wilde In the early years of living paycheck to paycheck, money was always on my mind. I remember crying myself to sleep over lack of money, resources, and hope of ever being able to provide adequate food, clothing and housing for my three girls. In the
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We asked our Customer Bloggers to share how often they think about money and saving. Matt, father of two with a third on the way, reflects on his preoccupation with money. Click here to read his previous blog posts. 
How often do you think about money and saving? Do you ever escape it, or is it always lodged in your subconscious? There was a time when I didn’t think about money. I didn’t have any, so why bother thinking about it? I lived simply and if I couldn’t afford something, I must not need it that bad. I didn’t have much but as long as I could put gas in the car and food on
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The following post was originally published on www.odemagazine.com. I’m no better off than when I last wrote about the
relationship between money and happiness, so I don’t have any personal insight into whether greater wealth brings greater wellbeing. But as the debate goes on, I can share this: in a
paper just published in the journal Psychological Science, a team of academics has found that earning more than someone else makes us happier; simply earning more, on the other hand, does not. In an analysis of 12,000 Britons, the researchers found that
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This is Alicia's first post in our Customer Blogger series. Over the upcoming months, we'll be following Matt, Alicia, Nancy, T.J., Susan and Alison on their savings adventures. 
Alicia Starkville, MS Age 26 Bio: I'm a college graduate with no debt! I took an office job to pay off my student loans and have been slowly saving for no particular goal other than to have a savings. My husband is pursuing a PhD, so as of right now I am the breadwinner, and English majors were never meant to be breadwinners. Our income and savings while meager allows some travel and indulgences such as our two pound puppies and two indoor rabbits. I live in rural Mississippi, and I like to be anywhere else. The Mis(sissippi) Adventures of a Born Again Saver: Flashback: I am 8. My brother is 16. I have saved
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If you want to own a home, save for it. It’s a simple concept, one your parents most likely subscribed to. Sadly, it’s a message that has been
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This is Alicia's second post in our Customer Blogger series. Read her first post here. Bio: I'm a college graduate with no debt! I took an office job to pay off my student loans and have been slowly saving for no particular goal other than to have a savings. My husband is pursuing a PhD, so as of right now I am the breadwinner, and English majors were never meant to be breadwinners. Our income and savings while meager allows some travel and indulgences such as our two pound puppies and two indoor rabbits. I live in rural Mississippi, and I like to be anywhere else. A different kind of savings: Until summer of 2007, I lived a fairly miserly life, constrained mostly by graduate school
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