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$5 Deals on Select Taste of Home Cookbooks - Great Gift Ideas

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The first $5 cookbook is the Everyday Slow Cooker & One Dish Recipes 2010 Cookbook. Treat your family to savory entrees, amazing appetizers, hearty casseroles, fast-and-flavorful skillet meals, delectable desserts and more using your slow cooker, casserole dish or skillet-it?s Save 80% on Everyday Slow Cooker & One Dish Recipes 2010.

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Top 10 FBS Posts of All Time

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I posted just a few times a month back and didn't really get into a rhythm until 2010. How To Create Your Own Family Balance Sheet (02/04/2010) Free Template Offer is still available! Front Yard Landscaping: 15 Tips to Help You Design Your Landscape and Save Money (04/27/2010). Top 10 FBS Posts of All Time (most page views): 1.

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Top 10 FBS Posts of All Time

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How To Create Your Own Family Balance Sheet (02/04/2010). How to Grill Chicken And Not Dry It Out Like the Sahara (06/28/2010). Front Yard Landscaping: 15 Tips to Help You Design Your Landscape and Save Money (04/27/2010). Save Money on Groceries Without Using Coupons (03/09/2011). Free Template Offer is still available!

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Planning for Christmas 2011

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What makes me cringe is realizing how much we spent on Christmas in 2010. Since we use credit cards for almost all of our purchases, we are paying the bills now for our Christmas presents. I added up what we spent on gifts for the entire year in 2010 and reduced that by 20%.

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Thrifty Finds: Snow Gear

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Last year, we barely had any snow, but in 2010 our street looked like this: My kids LOVE to play in the snow, but I really hate to spend a lot of money on snow gear, because we just never know what kind of winter weather we’ll get here in the center of the state. It’s never consistent. Luck is definitely what I found!

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Merry 6 Months Until Christmas! Start Planning Today.

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Did you pay cash or use a credit card to buy gifts? If you used a credit card, when did you pay it off? We usually use a credit card to buy our Christmas gifts and then pay the balance off in January. This past January, I looked at what we spent on Christmas gifts in 2010 and reduced it by 20%.

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A Cash Experiment

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Apparently, consumers spend more when they use a credit card in place of cash. We use a rewards credit card for almost every purchase we make. Could I save even more money if we stopped using credit cards altogether and started using cash? How much money could we save if we start using cash?