Wisebread, one of my fave personal finance blogazines posted: THIS LIST a while ago of 25 Frugal Changes You Can Make Today. Then I saw it the other day on another of my favorite personal finance blogs Free Money Finance. Let's see how we rate:1. Reduce/Eliminate Daily Luxuries - That's probably the best tip. Those things really add up. I do this now, thank goodness, but probably not as much as I could. If I ever hit dire financial straights I could tighten my ...
Better World Books
OMG yall.... I just binged again. A couple weeks ago it was clothes...gulp...last week it was books.At the end of my binge I had 28 books in my cart. but I pared it down to a reasonable..... 13 lol.OK. I gotta testify.www.BetterWorldBooks.comIf you're not a new book snob like I used to be (tho they do have new books there) and are OK with used....you will want to shop here.Oh where do I begin?Picture it. Sicily. 2011.* It was 9:30pm on a rainy Sunday.I'm online shopping ...
Million Dollar Club: To Do List
Holy Ship. I'm going to kill myself. So....I did a very conservative calculation using CNN Money's Millionaire Calculator This is what it told me: ...
How to Save Money Buying (almost) Anything
I am not ashamed to admit that I am somewhat frugal and love getting the best deal possible. I love to shop, which doesn’t really work well with goals of frugality, so I try my best to get what I want for the cheapest price around.My top 4 steps to saving money on almost anything you want to purchase are below.1. Use the internet – This is the natural first step to savings. Comparison shopping online is easy, fast, and extremely helpful, saving you gas money, time, leg work as well as cash. ...
Frugal or Not?
So I got this question in an email this weekend: In your description you describe yourself as frugal and in your post you mention you were shopping for clothes all the time. Which is it? I hope this question was sent in love and not as a jab, but I'm answering in love either way: It's both. Everything's relative, so this is all by my value system and what I consider "a lot" and "frugal"…even though it is just normal for me now. I shopped for clothes a lot. At one ...