Category Archives: Getting Ahead

10 Incredibly-Fun Things About Living Below Your Means

May 9, 2012 at 22:56

Kraig Mathias

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funlivingbelowyourmeans

Last week I crabbed a little about my frustrations of being a cheapskate and on all the things I feel like I miss out on by living this way. Yes, at times it gets quite rough. Sometimes, you just have to talk about it and let go of some steam. You know what I figured [...]

Carnival of Retirement – 17th Edition

April 30, 2012 at 05:00

Kraig Mathias

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Senior couple on cycle ride

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Retirement! Here, you’ll find tips on personal finance and on preparing for retirement financially. If you want to submit a post for next week’s edition, please use this submission form. Next week’s edition will be hosted by Simple Finance Blog. Enjoy! *Note: The links before are to articles written [...]

Inspiring Reasons to Live a Debt Free Life

April 21, 2012 at 07:22

Kraig Mathias

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inspiration

This is a guest post by Carrie Smith, the blogger behind the Careful Cents personal finance site. She’s a Certified Bookkeeper who blogs about all things money, career, debt and travel. She regularly writes for Yahoo!Finance and PerkStreet Financial. Follow her on Twitter @appleCSmith. Hello Young, Cheap Living readers! My name is Carrie Smith and [...]

When Life Gets You Down, Get Fired Up

April 14, 2012 at 18:09

Kraig Mathias

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2

Lately, I seem to be seeing it all over the place. I even feel it happening in me a few times every day. What am I referring to? Self pity. Life Is, And Always Will Be, Hard Life is hard. Is there’s only one lesson I’ve learned so far in my life, that’s the one. [...]

10 Personal Finance Tips for Young Adults

April 9, 2012 at 21:05

Kraig Mathias

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Beer

After turning 28 last week, I’ve realized that my twenties are mostly behind me. I’m finally able to look back on adulthood with 10 years of life experiences as an adult behind me. Would I do things differently? Yes and no. If I did things differently, I wouldn’t be where I am today and I [...]

Why You Won’t See Ads for Loans, Debt or Credit Cards on This Blog

March 7, 2012 at 21:03

Kraig Mathias

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nodebt

This awesome and one-of-a-kind (hehe) blog officially passed its 3 month birthday 3 days ago. I’m still figuring out what to do and what not to do on a daily basis. I don’t have a strategy for how I’m going to make money yet with this thing, although I think there are opportunities. Even if [...]

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