Frugal is In Vogue After the Recession

This is a guest post from Squirrelers who blogs about helping you save, protect, and grow your hard-earned money. Do you consider yourself to be a frugal person? If you enjoy reading about frugality, and living happily and responsibly within your means, it’s ok to label yourself as frugal. Go ahead, you can do it:) [...]

Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here is my confession of the week: My father-in-law is taking us to the airport and picking us up (thank you very much!). This will definitely save us a boatload in parking charges. If you don’t have someone to help you in this way, you can also try something I did [...]

11 Inexpensive and Unique Stocking Stuffer Ideas

Stockings are fun to fill. What can you fit inside? How can you keep your family and pets guessing? Okay…perhaps your pets aren’t as excited as a person would be, but having stockings for them can add to the character of your family’s holiday. We have a fireplace and so as soon as we return [...]

Frugal Confessions is On the News!

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! I am pleased to announce that I was featured on Channel 13 news in a segment based on my article on the Cheapest Store to Buy Your Thanksgiving Meal. As always, thank you all for your continued readership, support, and comments!

The Anatomy of a Coupon

Featured in the Yakezie Carnival at Money Reasons. I use coupons like money. When I enter a store I have my wallet clutched under my arm to free up both my hands so that I can thumb through my stash of coupons (which I store in a used junk-mail envelope). The more coupons I use [...]

Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here’s my confession of the week: About six months ago we had an estimate done on our fireplace/chimney for a chimney cap installation and and the re-mortaring of our firebox. The quote was for $1,000, which we both thought was obscene. Paul took it upon himself to purchase heat resistant mortar (up [...]

Birthday Freebies II

This is my birthday month and the free deals have all ready started rolling in. In my mailbox last week was a free $5.00 gift card to Academy Sports, and in an email I received a coupon for a free $5.00 to spend at Jason’s Deli. These free deals are a result of signing up [...]

What are Your Thanksgiving Plans? It’s Off to Austria For Us

Remember when we had our bags packed and were ready to go to Europe to honeymoon for two weeks? We were like those two kids on the Disney commercial who pack their bags late at night in anticipation of the magic to come. Well, several days before our honeymoon a volcano in Iceland erupted, sending [...]

Which Store has the Cheapest Thanksgiving Ingredients?

I recently read an article stating that 40% of Americans are going to cut their Thanksgiving costs considerably from years past. This inspired me to go on a three-store shopping trip to figure out which store has the cheapest prices on Thanksgiving ingredients this year, and to share my findings with you all to hopefully [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here’s my confession of the week: We have not turned on our heat yet! In the mornings our home is around 62, and by mid-day it heats up to around 72-75 degrees. Since our summer A/C electricity bills were so high, we are determined to tough it out in sweatshirts, blankets, [...]

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