Fireworks sellers hope it's a 'backyard' Fourth

Even in a scorched economy, there's still some money to burn.

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Shoppers feeling frugal fatigue splurge a little

As they watched stocks rally last month, Matt Rizzetta and his fiancee Daniela Papandrea loosened up their wedding and home renovation budgets.

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Americans' saving more, spending less

Americans are hunkering down and saving more. For a recession-battered economy, it couldn't be happening at a worse time.

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Revisiting a Classic: 'Your Money or Your Life'

There are countless personal finance books that advise readers on budgeting, investing and paying down debt. Few leave the tips aside and ask you to question your relationship with money and the reasons you spend what you do.

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Frugal farmer leaves $2M to his tiny Pa. church

It's like a gift from God. A tiny church in western Pennsylvania inherited more than $2 million from a farmer who lived in a mobile home. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Sunday that John Ferguson left his entire estate to Hopewell United Methodist Church near the town of Black Lick.

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The New Frugality: Americans return to thriftiness

Frugality is making a comeback.

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Is frugal the new black?

To get a sense of the American economy, consider what’s in for summer: house parties instead of bar hopping, thrift stores instead of mall shopping, gardening instead of gourmet restaurants.

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Learning to Live Frugally

Financial planner Stacy Francis, president of Francis Financial Inc. in New York, says frugal living requires that you minimize your spending, maximize your income and set achievable savings goals. Some strategies:

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Five years ago, the Hildebrandt family of New Richmond, Wis., was juggling more than $100,000 in credit card and personal debt. Through frugality, determination and hard work, they are now -- other than a mortgage -- debt-free.

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Baby Boomers Finally Achieve Their Potential

I am a baby boomer. I really embraced the values of the late '60's - peace, sharing, living within our means, rejecting the advertising hype that tried to dictate who we were.

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College life may look different in the not-so-distant future: Students squinting out dirtier windows, faculty offices with full wastebaskets and no phones, sporting events in which opponents never meet, and paper course catalogs existing only as artifacts of the wasteful old days …

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DELRAY BEACH - Sergio Santos is used to facing challenges as an architect. The 39-year-old Brazilian has designed college housing projects in England, two high-rises in Poland, an office building in Turkey and a mall in Germany.

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How many cleaning products do you own? Take a look under your sink and you may be surprised at the accumulation.

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The best wedding mail comes from frugal brides who are eager to share their fabulous ideas with future brides: *Fire festivities *Photo frugality *Biblio-bride *Balloon beauty *Designer deal *Perfect timing

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The boom years were a dizzying and often disturbing time, as globalisation and technology turned our world upside.

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Excerpt: Amy VanDeventer has always been a cheapskate. The recession is taking her to new extremes.

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How to Survive Another Great Depression; Lessons from the Past

Make it last, use it up, make do or do without. My parents lived through the Great Depression of 1929-1941. A few lessons about how to get by on less can be gleaned from their stories of living through that historic and traumatic period.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Recession-wary Americans embraced the virtues of thrift this Christmas, with stores reporting a clear rise in the popularity of piggy banks.

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THE faltering economy could mean renewed interest in coupons as shoppers refocus on the cost of the products they buy — that is, if they do actually buy anything these days.

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Have you been to the Blog Lately? The Hillbilly Housewife blog has a new look and there are quite a few new frugal tips and such on there. Mondays are now Frugal Challenge Days - Are you up to the challenge? Yes, you can organize your kitchen and pantry in just a weekend!

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Excerpt: SaveForHouse.com is the Internet's leading resource dedicated to free tips about saving money towards your first home down payment. Today Save For House is celebrating two milestones.

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USA TODAY asked four dietitians who blog at dietchallenge.usatoday.com to come up with creative ways to feed a family of four for under $10 — as healthful alternatives to the meal advertised on a new KFC commercial.

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Indulged. Entitled. Those labels have become hot-glued to middle-class and affluent teenagers born after the last major economic downturn, in the late 1980s.

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Stuck in a $14,300 debt hole, reader Trixare4kids was able to dig herself out using tips she learned about on Consumerist.com. Let's learn how she attacked her personal finances and learned to live frugally, and did it all in 20 months.

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A frugal man has declined an invitation from police to pay a €225 ($320) fine that would get his girlfriend out of jail. The woman is serving a 15-day sentence for fraud.

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Environmentalism and a tight budget

I became a better environmentalist when my income and expenses grew closer to together. It's easier to avoid waste when I have to be frugal to make ends meet. I don't buy too much produce and throw it away as often as I used to.

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Rik Wehbring, in his late 30s, lives on $50,000 a year in San Francisco. That's quite a feat in itself, considering the Bay Area has one of the highest costs of living in the country. However, that's not what makes his situation so impressive: Wehbring is a millionaire.

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Tips by 'America's Cheapest Family' See how this family of six keeps their grocery bill at $350 a month, which includes 4 teens. See more irresistible headlines

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She is very sweet. Almost kind of shy. And she's nervous. She's never been on television before and she didn't expect to be anytime soon.

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Help your kids learn to be frugal by teaching them from an early age

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Ingvar Kamprad, the reclusive Swedish founder of Ikea. And he is worth £15.7billion. That makes him the world's seventh richest man, but the 81-year-old admits he is still "a bit tight" with money.

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THERE'S a very fine line between tackiness and glamour, and in Miami Beach — itself a very fine strip of sand — that line sometimes vanishes.

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