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Long before frugal living and keeping your finances tight became part of the daily life of making due during the recession, the Amish had it covered.They watch what they spend, learn to save at an early age, are entrepreneurs, and have a network of friends and family to help in emergencies.When is...

After career changes from farming to small businesses such as making heaters, more Amish workers are returning to their farms as the recession sweeps into their work lives.A Christian Science Monitor story details how more Amish are returning to the traditional Amish livelihood of farming, citing...

It's easy to get suckered into buying something from the Amish. They make great quilts, everything is made by hand, and their pies are to die for. No doubt they're great farmers and know their way around a workbench. Their latest item up for sale on infomercials and in newspaper...

The Amish use credit cards, just like the rest of us.If you just know a little of the usual stuff about the Amish, that sounds so hard to believe at first. After all, the Amish are known for living a rather quaint 19th century lifestyle. They drive horses and buggies. They eschew electricity. They...

You might think that by now, every angle of the gas price hike has been explored, but there are a couple of new nuggets out today. One, from Paul Kedrosky's "Infectious Greed," is a hard look at just how much driving has changed. He has numbers from the Union-Tribune on driving patterns in the San...

I finally figured out how I can save a lot of money.Become Amish.Or at least start living like the Amish. Now, hear me out for a moment. I'm not thinking I would do this forever, maybe just a year. I could save a bundle on electricity, and there would be no Internet, telephone or cable charges to...