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.  You will also have “prepaid” every month directly toward [...]

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 [...]