Young and Frugal

Business and Personal Finance for Millennials

Entries for February, 2008

What Credit Crunch?

Welcome to Young and Frugal! If you like what you see please consider joining the 300+ other subscribers by subscribing via RSS feed or E-mail. Thanks for visiting!I got my first credit card when I was 19. It was a Citi American AAdvantage card. As I got older I slowly accumulated more credit cards, and [...]

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My $500 Lesson

As long as I can remember my parents always taught me to brush my teeth at least twice a day.  This is something I have done religiously for over the past ten years.  I brush my teeth as soon as I wake up, and it’s the last thing I do before I go to bed, it’s [...]

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Frugality Increases Earning Power (And Saving Power!)

I want to share a story about how being frugal can help you make more money, and not just help you save it. 
Ever since Mary and I decided to build our new house we have been living frugally for the first time, and I feel that it has opened my eyes.  I’ve always hated inefficiency [...]

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Planning Ahead

Not planning ahead can get expensive. This weekend we went on a ski trip with my family, and I didn’t adequately plan ahead. I assumed everything was taken care of (which it was for the most part), but I missed the opportunity to save my family at least $20 a day on lift tickets (we [...]

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Sorry!

I’ve been sick and out of town (without internet!) for the last few days and I haven’t been able to do any updates!  I will be updating more this week (hopefully with more posts than usual to make up for it! 
-Daniel 

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TV…It’s A Trap!

As I watched the Super Bowl the other week, I was reminded how much I hate commercials. I have Tivo, and so I usually fast forward through commercials, but it was the Super Bowl, you are supposed to watch for the commercials.  Anyway, I really haven’t been watching TV much in the past months due to [...]

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2 Week Anniversary Update

Young and Frugal is officially 2 weeks old today, and I haven’t provided an update, so here it goes in a very random and unorganized fashion… 
First off, I would also like to thank you for stopping by, it’s been two weeks, and I have had over 250 page views! OK, I really don’t know [...]

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