When all you need to do is some simple photo editing, or quick graphics, monster programs like Photoshop are overkill, hogging your system memory and your financial resources. But for all of you frugal photo editor’s tired of being abused by Adobe’s (and its various clones’) hard hitting prices, a new photo editing application has come to save the day. And yes, thrivers on thrift, it’s a deal you can’t refuse.

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The first step to becoming financially stable and in turn wealthy, is not to budget or cut coupons, but rather to first identify the problems from within. Once you’ve taken a look at the root of your money problems, you can begin to address them one by one. In Part 1 I talked about some of the common causes of “money chaos” relating to a lack of education, guidance and experience. In Part 2 we’ll take a a look at more common causes relating to emotional problems and insecurity in dealing with money, social status, and financial institutions
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I’m always seeking out other people’s opinions when I’m trying to learn something. 1mil asks Yahoo! Answers users: What’s a good way to start investing?
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To introduce the formal subject of investing on Millionster and to contribute to the writing contest on My Money Forest, we begin with a fundamental question of investing: Are you ready? We will also introduce what we believe to be general rules of investing as we progress throughout the series. — As a matter of fact here’s one to start you off:
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Welcome to Step 1 of the Money Boot Camp Preliminary to Becoming a Millionster

Before you take a strangle-hold on money, it is prudent to analyze the situation you’re in and recognize the things that have brought you to be in a state of “money chaos.” In the financial blog community you’ll see a number of tips telling you to track your spending and build a budget, but really none of that is going to help you UNTIL you understand the bigger problem: You

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You’ve heard all kinds of ways to save on gas, but you’ve never seen anything like this!! It’s a guaranteed way to save you on gas, but a hell of a way to get your butt kicked up and down the boulevard. Why didn’t I think of that?

Watch the Flash Movie Clip!

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One of my gripes with WordPress is that it “provides” the ability to move the core files into an alternate location other than the root without devising a way to fully support it. The caveat is if you do this, the cookies used to manage your authentication on the site break because of the way WordPress stores sessions. This in and of itself is not entirely the problem, but rather when you go to find information about it, what you find says more or less: we provide the ability to do x, but if you use it you break y and z, oh well. People seem resigned to not being able to solve the problem, which is silly, because it can be solved. This is more so for people looking for an answer…
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It’s been a very cold weekend in the Bay Area with near freezing temperatures. I’ve definitely had my heater on, so I was inspired to find some frugality points for you. Check out some of the tips below about heating and insulating your home. You can also try out the Home Energy Saving Calculator

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In Secrets of the Wealth, Linsey Mills challenges listeners to alter their thinking to become wealthy. What are the 7 characteristics of the wealthy? What are the top 3 investment priorities of the wealthy? Memorable quotes help the list of ideas sink in. He recommends listening to this video 2 or 3 times a week; there’s a lot of ideas here! A nice motivational video, from Simply Outrageous! Check it out:
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I spent the last two hours looking for my exported posts and no luck, so I did the unthinkable — I conjured up the forces of darkness to get in touch with lost souls. Ok no, really I did a Google Desktop search, and lo and behold I found nothing more than scraps. So alas, while I wanted to bring you back the great posts from last year, I cannot recover many of them, but I did find a few! Ah well. Back to work!
(Oh btw, my good friend Foro Juan is going to find some his old posts, so hopefully I’ll get those soon)

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