Besides grave risks to your health, smoking poses a big risk to your pocketbook. On average, a two-pack-a-day smoker will probably spend $400 or more on cigarettes each month. Along with other potential reasons to switch to vaping, you might have heard that vaping is cheaper than smoking cigarettes. If you choose your vaping device and vaping juice right, replacing
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Credit Score Rankings Explained Certainly, you’ve heard people mention a bad credit score or a good credit score; however, you may not know what these actually mean. Even more, you may not know how you should classify your own credit score. Most of all, you might not understand how landlords, lenders, utility companies, or even insurers will view your
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The Importance of Family Budgeting Here at Frugal Pig, we find that most people or families don’t suffer from gigantic financial issues. Instead, they suffer from a multitude of small budgeting issues that accumulate into large problems over time. Very often, problems managing cash flow or debt start with small lapses in discipline that can easily be corrected by preparing
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Obviously Diets Make People Fatter There must be dozens of popular weight-loss diets on bestseller lists or the top ranks of Google search. Sadly, the National Institute of Health found that one-third of us qualifies as obese and two-thirds of us are at least overweight. Here at FrugalPig.com, we don’t like to see people wasting their time and money on
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The Backsliding or Mostly Vegan Diet Cure It’s been a couple of years since the Frugal Pig urged readers to consider celebrating Meatless Monday. While we haven’t talked about it much, a lot of us here have slowly been switching over to a vegan or semi-vegan diet. Some people call this being a flexitarian, which sounds better than semi-vegan or
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