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Get Rich Slowly
Getting out of town.
I got back from BlogHer 2011 late in the evening on July 9. Since then I’ve been hitting MSN Money and Get Rich Slowly deadlines pretty hard, and spending time (including a day in Vancouver, B.C.) with an old friend who’s here in town.
Just before midnight tonight I get on a plane for the East Coast, where I’ll be spending just over a month:
The $9 airline ticket, and other frugal travel hacks.
My current piece at MSN Money won’t show up in the RSS feed. That’s because it’s a slide show rather than a column.
“$9 airfare and 9 other travel hacks” offers the skinny on things like “news flash” alerts (e.g., a $9 flight from Boston to New York), ways to get a free flop anywhere from Anchorage to Amsterdam, and how to spend just $1 to journey from Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia.
The winners.
I wish I had unlimited prizes so that everyone could be a winner. I don’t. Is it too corny to say I think you’re all winners?
(It is? Well, too late. I just said it.)
Here’s how the first-anniversary giveaway turned out:
Anniversary giveaway update.
There’s still time to enter this much-larger-than-usual giveaway — and in fact, it just got a little larger.
When the back 40 is the back yard.
The urban homesteading movement is a growth enterprise (sorry) in the United States. My current column at MSN Money shows why.
“A chicken in every condo?” details some of the ways that let people with small urban properties — or those who don’t own property — produce food.
Resist the ATM! Here’s how.
Your ATM card is a tool, just like a credit card — or a hammer. The powers of all three can be used for good, or they can land you (or maybe just your thumb, sometimes) in a world of hurt.
The “Coupon Mom” book winner. Also: Emergency prep on a shoestring.
The random number generator loved Sheryl the best this week. Sheryl: Please respond to my e-mail with your address and the book will wing its way to you.
In other news:
“Time to plan an egg-based meal,” my weekly post at MSN Money’s Smart Spending blog, was chosen for the Festival of Frugality at Stupid Cents.
“Emergency preparedness on a budget,” my latest work at Get Rich Slowly, is an Editor’s Pick in the Carnival of Personal Finance at Funny About Money (even though the post contains the word “poop”).
The article is about meeting basic needs in an emergency. Such as: