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Grocery Bill Doubled In 9 Months: We Have A Problem

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Today we went on our biweekly shopping trip to Trader Joes.
I am pissed!
Our grocery bills have been inching up for a little while now but dammit if this didn’t take the cake!  Now, granted we have been out of town so we didn’t go food shopping for a week or so before [...]

Stay At Home Wives: The New Status Symbol?

Add this to the list of decisions that women are now criticized for with regards to their life decisions. If it isn’t the Mommy Wars between the stay at home and working moms, then before that it was the women who chose to get an education and work for a living instead of choosing to [...]

Too Educated For Entry Level? Why Having A Master’s Degree May Be To Your Detriment

The Washington Post published the article Too Educated For Entry Level, and I was actually excited to see that they’d taken on this issue, especially here in the DC Metro area. With more women going to college and then going on to obtain master’s degrees, this is a relevant article for so many of [...]

Are We Giving Up Too Much: After A Baby Full Time Or Part?

This is an old post but I thought I’d bring it back with some new information gleaned from the Washington Post’s article, After A Baby, Full Time Or Part? This is something I struggle with being a newly wed with the expectation of children on the horizon. We are both just getting started in our [...]

8 Frugal and Cost Cutting Tips for the Newly Independent

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May is around the corner which for some means graduation from high school, college or graduate school. I remember the feeling well. And, while it meant being released from the bosom of self discovery into the arms of adult responsibilities, I looked forward to it with enthusiasm.
I moved [...]

Cooking at Home with Basic Kitchen Staples Saves You Money

This is a guest post by Dr. Yakini, publisher of Girly Home Webzine, an online lifestyle magazine for ladies. Girly Home Webzine is devoted to providing readers with fresh and unbiased information about all things chichi! Dr. Yakini is a clinical psychologist and freelance lifestyle writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She owns and edits Girly [...]

Personal Finance Tips For Newlyweds-Part 2

Part one is here at The Frugal Law Student.
Brett wrote an awesome post about Personal Finance Tips for Newlyweds and I wanted to add a few more to the list. Believe it or not this was one of the more challenging issues when we got married. Since I was always reading the Suze [...]