Road to Saving

The library’s not just for bookworms, Saver.

Since college, my library use has changed dramatically. Back then, I used it primarily as my study group meeting space and personal printing plant: Any paper over three pages long was packed onto a zip drive and printed
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A few of our favorite posts.

As always, We, the Savers is a place where you can share ideas, learn something new about money and, hopefully, smile. Here are a few recent posts we think you’ll enjoy: Cash diet: Cutting the credit to thin the debt. There are all kinds of crazy, expensive crash diets out there and most of them are useless. Read one Saver’s take on “cash” diets and how they can help us cut on credit, pay down the debt and live within our means. Your 2010 security resolution? Help us fight online bad guys. We want to
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Saver’s Resolutions

5. We will define and understand the “real” cost of borrowing. We’re all good Savers, but we could all learn a lesson or two about being better borrowers. Whenever you take on a mortgage, loan or finance a
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Have fun in the Here and Now.

In defiance of procrastination, an activity (or, um, “activity”) with which many of us are skillfully and intimately familiar, we are going to cut right to the point in this article: Have fun…now! It’s a not-so-novel idea that
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“Save” yourself from a gift wrapping rampage.

It’s crunch time! Less than 24 hours before Santa squeezes down the chimney. Haven’t wrapped a thing? Don’t worry. This article from Fox News offers some ideas on how to wrap on the fly and on the cheap.
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Season’s Gratuity: To tip, treat or simply thank?

Year ‘round, we Savers are faced with a near-daily dilemma: To tip, or not to tip? And if the answer is, indeed, to tip, we’re faced with another pickle: How much? Or rather: It makes us sweat.
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Need some tasty gift ideas? Check the cupboard.

You’ve crossed a few people off of the shopping list, but you still have your boss, the neighbors and the kids’ teachers to buy for. And there’s not much left in the holiday budget. Well, worry not. Put the
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Gift cards: Convenient stocking stuffer or lump of coal?

OK. Who hasn’t purchased a gift card for a friend, family member, or when you’re running late for a holiday party and need a last-minute gift? Been there, bought that, right? And as the holiday shopping season kicks into
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