Article Round-up: Get Out of College Debt-Free Edition

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! I graduated from college in 2005, and wow I wish I had known all that I do not about ways to save money, stay out of debt, and to make money. If I had known, I would have come out of college with much less than my $36,000 in student loan [...]

$5 Left at the End of the Month: A New Campaign

Winner of Christian Finance Carnival 2. I come from a divorced family. Wait, that doesn’t even tell half of the story. I come from a divorced family, who then divorced separately again and who are now on their third marriages. My familial connections seem to connect and divide like a sluggish strain of bacteria.                 [...]

Liquidate Your Past and Invest in Your Future

Please note: If you are my ex and are reading this, then it is not your jewelry I pawned! Ever since being engaged (we are E+ two weeks now, as my fiancée likes to keep track of time after the big day), I have had this consuming desire within me to organize, de-clutter and simplify [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! For those of you new to this series, check out the introduction here. Here is my confession of the week: I am a member of Cashbaq, a site that offers money back for making purchases at a ton of different sites. I only buy rock-bottom bargains online, and so the cash [...]

Food Experiment: My Trip to Wal-Mart

Check out my original article in this series here. Wal-mart happens to be a fascination of mine. Any business that can start from a small store on the corner of a rural town and grow to practically encompass every small and large town across the U.S. is a topic of interest in my book, regardless [...]

We Are Not Going to Help Them Make Vegetable Soup out of a Stone and Water

Read the original Timeshare Story, as well as Timeshare Part 1 posted earlier this week. Talking with the agent from Casablanca Express was a little like the folk story of Stone Soup. Here’s the synopsis: a hungry foreigner comes upon a village with only a pot and no one will share their food with him. [...]

Article Round-up: The Timeshare Edition

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! In light of my timeshare themed week, I’d like to roundup some articles dealing with timeshares and other blogger’s experience with them. Invest it Wisely shares his timeshare experience in Southeast Asia where he was almost scammed out of his money from a woman with scratch-off cards on a scooter. Canadian [...]

Deal or No Deal or Which Deal?: Our Timeshare Update

Featured on Eventual Millionaire for the Carnival of Money Stories. Read about our decision on the Timeshare Prize here. Do you ever get that feeling that you don’t quite know if you’ve been snowballed or not…but you suspect that you have? Let me pose the scenario to you. On a Friday last fall, I became [...]

How to Save Money on Your Wedding—Part II

Check Out: How to Save Money on Your Wedding Part I.   Our wedding was on April 17, 2010, and we were thrilled with the results. Here are some additional ways we have managed to save money on our wedding (remember from the first article that average costs are from the book Bridal Bargains): Music/DJ for [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! For those of you new to this series, check out the introduction here. Here is my confession of the week: I have been really curious about trying the Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter (you’ve probably seen it on television or at the store). Of course, I didn’t want to pay the $19.99 [...]

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