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Can You Cut Expenses by a Half Million Dollars?

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262,032 Food Preparation. By using generic or store brand groceries instead of name brand, you can save 3.7 % of your food budget each month (per the Journal of Economic Perspectives article: Consumer Shopping Behavior, How Much Do Consumer’s Save ). Do it yourself home repair can really go either way.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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Budgeting and Economics. It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. Even professional bond market money managers do not beat the bond market.” Welcome to the April 6, 2012 Edition #231 of the Carnival of Financial Planning.

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