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America's "Cheapest Family" Wants To Teach You To Live "Debt-Free"

America's "Cheapest Family" Wants To Teach You To Live "Debt-Free"

Meet Steve and Annette Economides. They are raising a family of 7 in Arizona on an annual income of about $44,000.

Surviving On 99-Cent-Store Food For A Week In NYC

Surviving On 99-Cent-Store Food For A Week In NYC

Henry Alford of the New York Times writes that sometimes he will “plop a can of chicken broth down on the checkout counter and think, ‘$2.19? For someone to boil chicken bones? I want that job,'” so he decided to try going a week with food from 99 cent stores in New York City.

It’s Science: The Brains of Spendthrifts Fuction Differently Than Tightwads

It’s Science: The Brains of Spendthrifts Fuction Differently Than Tightwads

We are a definitely a tightwad, but what does that mean, really? That we avoid buying things, even if we know we need them? That we still don’t own a microwave? What’s wrong with us? The New York Times has the answer, via Stanford and Carnegie Mellon Universities.