With coupons, you did like I did tonight and save a few bucks on a variety of different grocery items. Groupon let’s you save real money on some really great stuff that you’d like to do, but you didn’t want to spend the full price on it to do it.

Groupon was started by some folks in Chicago, just a short drive to north of Indianapolis and they did it so they could “enjoy all the great stuff in our hometown of Chicago”. Sounds like a good enough reason for me.

Groupon has grown to over a million users who have collectively saved more than $25 million with the service. That’s a pretty good track record for a site that hasn’t been around very long at all.

Have some fun, save some money. Groupon continues to expand, soon it will be in your city if it’s not already there now: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Nashville, New York, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, and Washington DC.

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A friend of mine has recently started blogging as The Queen of Free and she’s knocking it out of the park for being a new blogger. There’s a focused niche of people that are really on fire in this arena and the Inexpensively website puts many of them together into a network and brings you the best of their information and their posts.

Inexpensively gives you opportunities to save, the latest alerts on great deals available both online and off, getting the most out of your grocery budget and capitalizing on coupons. You can also see frugal bloggers organized by your state.

It’s hard to change a behavior that’s been cultivated in your life over a period of years. It’s even harder when you realize that just about everything you read, watch on TV or see on the Internet is trying to sell you something.

Getting into the habit of seeing things a different way and saving money is what needs to happen for you to change your life. The Inexpensively website will keep feeding your some of the antidote for the consumer mentality.

Uncover some more of your own money with Inexpensively.

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Here’s another online contest where you could win $250,000 to pay off your mortgage. In economic times like these, getting rid of that house payment would really come in handy wouldn’t it?

Just to give you an idea of the scale, that $700B bailout we all just paid for would have been enough money to award $250,000 to 2,800,000 homeowners. I’d say that would have helped the economy a bit too. That would have been an Extreme Financial Makeover: Home Edition.

Since that didn’t happen, the next best thing is to enter the contest and see if you can win your own mortgage getting paid off. I’ve got to read the instructions though, if I won that money, I’d pay of this house, sell it at a loss and go buy us a bigger house a big discount with the housing market the way it is. Wonder if I can use it for that.

Just follow this link to enter the contest. You are signing up for a free trial subscription for Popular Mechanics magazine. I’m a subscriber and love it, but I also know this is one magazine that makes it easy to cancel your subscription if you want to after the trial.

Uncover a paid off mortgage with Popular Mechanics Payoff Your Mortgage Sweepstakes.

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1. Teach them how to not make the same mistakes that I have as a child, teenager, college student and now an adult.
2. Teach them how to be flexible and understand how to adjust what they know and learn to the current financial situation.

I came across this article from GreatSchools entitled "Smart Money: Seven Ways to Raise a Financially Literate Child".

Some of these items may be obvious, others may share a nugget of additional thought or detail that maybe you haven’t thought about until this point.

1. Encourage a work ethic
2. Get your money stories straight
3. Facilitate financial reflection
4. Become a charitable family
5. Teach financial literacy
6. Be aware of the values you model
7. Moderate your extreme money tendencies

Be sure and read the entire article for all the details and strategies on how to raise your child to be financially smart.

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