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How To Haggle For A Bargain

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If you like saving money, haggling for a better price should become a habit for you, a habit that can easily save you thousands of dollars over the next 10 years. So haggling for a better price was born out of necessity. Hopefully this advice can help you save some money as well and turn the art of haggling into a habit.

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

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We don’t know those neighbors very well, don’t know their cell phone numbers or how to contact them. How does a person extend empathy in these types of situation? Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes.

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Friday Links – Colder Than Mars Edition

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If so, don’t miss Lisa’s post about how to Use Your Personal Network to Save Major $$$ on Your Wedding at Lisa Vs. The Loans. Ben’s post from The Wealth Gospel is a must-read: How to Waste Time and Kill Productivity. PET Archives : How To Haggle For A Bargain. Here are some great articles from this week.

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Learn to Negotiate Better Prices

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Americans historically have not haggled for better prices on most items. To keep up we need to learn that negotiation (aka haggling) is acceptable, expected and useful. We need to practice haggling. It was humiliating to have to haggle. Start the Haggle. Subtly mimic the person with whom you are haggling.

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Friday Links – Too Swamped Edition

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Figuring out a budget and how to meet those goals? Read See Debt Run’s post about how to handle an epic failure for some much-needed inspiration to keep yourself on track. PET Archives: How to make your own clothes. How to conduct an effective family financial analysis. How to haggle for a bargain.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

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Each clip corresponds with one of the blog posts included this week. Drew from Objective Wealth tells us How To Manage A Windfall , and says, “The last thing you’d want is for the money to slip through your fingers – something that happens all too often!” Make sure you know how to capitalize on this.”