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We love to save money. Finding the best value for less is basically our obsession. We'll show you how to start saving more money on everything so you can achieve financial independence faster. Every financial freedom journey starts with a dollar saved first.

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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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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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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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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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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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