Buying the right product can be tricky if you have never done it before. Lots of people go to the internet to research their purchases before they buy. No one wants to be put on the spot to make an…
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Top Ten Family Finance Articles #2: Slimming my MII Addition
I’m in the 10 pound challenge that Newlyweds on a Budget is organizing for the winter and I can’t wait. I put on roughly 10 pounds since graduating college and another 10 pounds since meeting my wife all those years…
Smart Family Finance Update: Happy 6th Anniversary to Me, Mrs. Smart Family Finance
Confession. Six Years ago Mrs. Smart Family Finance and I exchanged vows and officially added the word Family between Smart and Finance. Ever since then, life has been amazing. We started careers, we bought a house and have two amazing…
Average Family Debt: The Average Family has Over $100,000 in Loans
According to recent information released by the Fed, the average family has roughly $100,000 of debt. I decided to write this post when the Fed released their quarterly results on household indebtedness. Frugal Toad had an interesting take on the…
Is Your Budget Easy to Beat? You are Probably Budgeting Wrong!
If you are constantly beating your budget, you need to set more challenging goals. The Smart Family Finance family budget is getting a tweak. For the last two months our family has managed to come in far under budget. It…
The Average Family Can Save Thousands by Cutting Back on Just Three Bills
Economics will put you to sleep; just ask my wife. Merely editing a ten page paper I wrote in college on the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system put my wife into a long, mid-day slumber. Caffeinated tea was…
Buy This, Not That at the Grocery Store
You need to eat or you will die. That’s the state of our existence, which is why being frugal at the grocery store is often more about substitution than it is about eating less. There are many good shopping rules…
