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How Much Money Does Our Brand of Frugality Save? (Spoiler: $56,000+/Year)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I’ve honestly wondered about how much our frugal living saved. Let's do the whole math breakdown and find out! Our brand of frugality is pretty typical (to a little extra strength) in the ...

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14 Inexpensive Wedding Ring Alternatives For Nontraditional Couples

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

The older I get and the more I learn about the world and other humans...the more convinced that there must be something wrong with me. Like I still think paying back debt, saving money, and taking ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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100 Free & Frugal Things to Do on Valentine’s Day

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

"I love you" may be a pretty powerful thing to say but gestures are even more powerful. Welcome to a list of fun, free, and frugal things you can do with your significant other. This was a ...

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We Saved $640 With a Money Jar! (And What We Did With Spare Change)

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Two years ago, I was shopping for our weekly groceries in the Asian grocer near our house. In one of the snack aisles, there were a bunch of adorable animal-shaped coin jars stuffed with ...

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Why You Still Need An Emergency Fund While In Debt

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I write these for my Soapy and all the Soapys we have in our own lives. You can read part of Soapy’s briefing here: Soaps is one of my best friends. She is a remarkable person and a free-spirited, ...

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40 Everyday Household Items You Should Buy Secondhand To Save Money

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

I never knew how many free and secondhand things we used as the family until now. As I took a stroll around my home after the Christmas holidays it occurred to me that a good percentage of our ...

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