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    Make smaller mortgage payments

    10.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

    This post can be found on Springpad’s new blog.
    Quick Idea: Make smaller mortgage payments every other week, shortening a 30-year mortgage to only 24 years.
    How it works: If your mortgage payment is $1500/mo, instead pay $750 every other week.  At the end of the year, you will have paid 1 full extra mortgage payment.  [...]

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    Shampoo every other day

    10.24.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

    I am going to try to only wash my hair every other day. Now, I do this with the full knowledge that I will have to suffer through a few greasy weeks as I adjust. I first got this idea when I read It’s Easy Being Green, but many a hairdresser has [...]

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    Keep your small car, use ZipCar

    10.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

    Quick Idea: Sign up for ZipCar & use it as your 2nd or 3rd car.
    Benefits include: Gas & insurance is included, you only pay for what you use (minimum of one hour in 30 minute increments), you get to choose the exact car & location you want to rent from, the entire reservation & pickup [...]

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    Eat more fruit for your health

    10.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

    If you’d like to improve your health & increase you energy level, try this idea:  Eat only fruit before noon.
    Here’s some advice to make it doable:

    Buy fruit every weekend – Now that it’s apple season, buy one of those bags of McIntosh apples.  When it’s avocado season, be sure to try eating one with a [...]

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    BlogHer ReachOut Tour: Boston & DC

    10.10.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

    The BlogHer conferences are all-around awesome events – I attended BlogHer ‘08 in San Francisco over the summer.  This weekend, BlogHer is taking both Boston & DC by storm with one-day conferences.
    Spring Partners will be there, talking about our awesome product springpad!  If you can’t make it to BlogHer this weekend, I sure hope you [...]


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