Archive for the ‘Budgeting’

  • Most Frugal Cities of America in the Past One Year>
    Most Frugal Cities of America in the Past One Year
    I must say the leading financial website Mint Life comes up with many interesting comparisons that let us know how we’ve been faring in comparison to our neighbors in this nation. This morning I saw this map that tells you about the most frugal cities of America in the past one year and how the spending differs on various categories. You can take a look at the map here. This map has been made after a survey on 1 million Mint members and it has been made analyzing 20 cities over twenty spending categories. The analysts made groups of 5 of cities which were spending less than the national average for the last one year in specific categories in which they were cutting the most. The expenditures shown below are the average monthly expenditures made by people belonging to 5 cities in the least  [...]
    at September 17th, 2009 at 04:09 am
  • Why Should Recession Make Your Wedding a Seasonal Affair?>
    Why Should Recession Make Your Wedding a Seasonal Affair?
    Marriages are made in heaven. But sadly enough we don’t live in heaven after that. We come to this earth where money rules and we’ve got to plan our weddings once more according to our financial capabilities. No more is it like in God’s land where marriage is a matter of two compatible souls. It’s more a matter of compatible wallets today! Apart from gifting your partner there are a lot of expenses involved in the celebrations! Well we don’t mind that actually because it’s a once in a lifetime, oops sorry…a supposed-to-be once in a lifetime occasion (these days rising divorce rates have made marriage a multiple times affair!)! But when you’ve suffered the recession, do you think you have enough money to host a gala event for the occasion? If you think you don’t, no need to  [...]
    at September 15th, 2009 at 04:09 am