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My Husband “Bakes The Cakes” and I “Make The Steaks”

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I write about marriage occasionally when I come up with something good while being handcuffed to Mr. Hippo. I proposed this post idea to hubby yesterday morning and he granted a ...

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What Fatty Fatty Fat FatFIRE Looks Like To Me

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

What is fatFIRE? What is fatFIRE vs leanFIRE? How about some morbidly obese FIRE?!This is a fun post where I let my mind run wild under all the different possibilities of extreme wealth. I got the ...

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Saving Money For College Does More Than Pay Tuition #FinHealthMatters

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

The Teen YearsSaving your own money for college does a lot more than just paying the tuition. Spending your own money teaches you about the value of money, provides a safety net, and gives you a ...

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Being Frugal is Easier When You’re Young & Healthy

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."Mark Twain was not addressing young people finances when he said that but he might as well be, it's true. It's easier to save money when you're ...

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11 Surprising Downsides of Being a Foodie/Travel YouTube Vlogger

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Imagine traveling around the worlds, for free, eating the best food out there for a living...that is what being a successful vlogger is all about right?! Mikey Chen, Mark Wiens, Andrew Zimmerman ...

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What’s In The Fridge? Our Discount Grocery Haul ?

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I wrote a pretty basic post on our approach to keeping our grocery bills super low almost 6 months ago. It’s how we approach shopping and it doesn’t necessarily follow all the standard ...

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The Quickest, Surefire Way to Be an Effective Personal Finance Blogger (Poll Results)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

OK, we are continuing into the last part of the discussion "Is Financial Illiteracy An Excuse?" (Go check out that if you've missed it...or don't because I'm not your boss xD)Here are the ...

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Is Not Having Financial Literacy An Excuse For Being Broke? – Read & Take Our Poll

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

A majority of Americans are financially illiterate. That means if you offered them an 8.56% interest rate on a used car, most of them wouldn't know enough be able to scream and run away ASAP.Is not ...

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How Soapy is Geoarbitraging in China

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

You know what they say: there's more than one way to skin a cat!(No one says this. Who says this? Why is this a saying.)It's a gross way of saying there's more than one way to reach your goal. So if ...

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Failure Resume? No. Cover Letter? No…More Like Confessional.

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I went down from posting 3 times a week two months ago to 2 times a week. It's not a big change, I never felt like I needed to explain my reasoning. After a ...

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