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7 Long Term Bonding Things We Do As Newlyweds (To Ward Off Divorce)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

“Ah. Passion, puppy love, promise...” I had an outing on Sunday with my friend Valerie and I gushed on and on about my husband (he stayed at home to diligently do taxes like a good boy.) Valerie ...

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How Rich People Think: Why Penny Pinch When You Don’t Have To?

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Ever wonder where the penny-pinching millionaire trope came from? Or how rich people think about frugality when they don't have to be frugal?In her usual guileless way, Soap (a good friend of mine) ...

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The Costs of Sperm Banking (And How We Saved Money On It)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

It's a pretty awkward financial topic today guys. Feel free to read this under the guise of night.I told my husband yesterday morning that I was planning to write an article about our plan to freeze ...

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11 Perks of Growing Up Poor (Growing Up Poor Chinese American)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Poverty sucks. Don't even start saying I'm making light of the topic. I can't even begin to rant to you how much being poor sucks and changes things for the worst in almost every facet of the human ...

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The Gray Area of Making Financial Decisions In a Marriage

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Balancing money and marriage is hard work. I think hubby and I have it figured out together pretty good. Even so, no marriage is airtight when it comes to money and squabbles. When we got married, we ...

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11 Punchable Financial Crimes According to Me

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I believe most people are good by their default switch.Although I cannot argue the validity of that in particular, it is a subgenre of philosophy that people much smarter than me argued over for ...

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Financial Pros and Cons of Autonomous Self Driving Car Technology

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

The last time mankind did something indisputably significant was sending the first signal from UCLA to Stanford via ARPANET (the original birth of the Internet). That was in 1989; 2 years before I was ...

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9 Big Reasons Why You Should Choose To Live Without a Car

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I never really mentioned why we personally chose to live without a car. Not that it's much of a mystery. We don't even have frugal clunkers to brag about.To be perfectly honest, I see the stats ...

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Everything You Need To Know About Those Safeway Monopoly Games (2018)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I’ll try to hold back the fact that Safeway owns Albertsons as a monopoly joke. We’re talking about the real (and very tempting) monopoly games these grocery giants host every year!(McDonald's hosts ...

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7 Reasons Why We Should All Hate Valentine’s Day (For Anti-Valentine People)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

According to Nicholas Sparks (American romance novelist), “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” This quote has seen reoccurrences each year during Valentine's Day. People who ...

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