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Personal finance-related blog posts told with real-world, first-hand experience from two hard-working, hard-hustling millennial super savers.

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5 Amusing Stories As Stealth Wealth Aficionados

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I don't know about you but I'm extra stealthy because I get a huge kick out of it. I think it's hilarious. That or maybe because I've been dirt poor most of my life so I don't have any other ...

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Master List of Budget Categories + FREE Google Budget Download – Version 2

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Budgets should be free. Like fresh air, choice of religion, and water cups at the food court. - MeWe have been using our old Google Docs spreadsheet for over a year now and slowly improved some of its ...

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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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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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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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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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