Young and Frugal

Business and Personal Finance for Millennials

Entries for June, 2008

Why You Need To Know Math

This week I overheard a conversation that made me ashamed of my generation.  I felt like I aged 20 years and was looking at two young people (roughly my age) in disbelief.
I was in a retail store with my wife, and I had a cashier call other stores to check stock on an item.  As [...]

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Falling Off The Wagon

Hi, my name is Daniel, and I… lost track of my finances. 
I write (what is for the most part) a personal finance blog, so you’d think that I would track every penney, but I don’t.  We budget to pay ourselves first (savings/retirement), pay all of our bills, and then everything else is give and take.  One month we might [...]

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The Next Time You Fill Up Your Tank

…Think about how many miles per gallon you get out of your coffee.
Your 87 Octane Gas costs about $4.00 a gallon, that “tall” Starbucks coffee in your hand costs about $18.00 per gallon.  Your mocha?… Closer to $30 a gallon.
Think About It.

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