Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here is my frugal confession of the week: The previous owners left us their kegerator in the garage. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work. It will only cool if it is on the highest possible number of cooling; otherwise, the whole thing doesn’t work. So, we unplugged it, called up a company, [...]

Top 10 Frugal Confessions Posts of 2010

2010 is coming to a close, and what a great year it has been! I’d like to take a moment to showcase some of the most popular articles on Frugal Confessions this year in case any of you have missed them. Preparing this list was also great inspiration for me to continue writing content you [...]

Surprising Fees While Traveling Abroad

In a nutshell, Austria was expensive. We truly enjoyed our time there (photos are up on my Frugal Confessions blog), and most importantly, our time together, but some of the costs incurred were quite surprising. I’d like to share them with you here in case you are planning a trip abroad. Luggage Fees: Perhaps I [...]

Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! And Merry Christmas Eve. Here is my frugal confession of the week: The Green Team at our agency organized a “Pump-a-Thon” to make sure our vehicles’ tires are inflated to the correct pressure. There are many reasons for doing this that range from environmental reasons, the health of your vehicle, etc. [...]

How to Find the Best Annuity for You

This is a guest post from Annuity.com. When you are looking for an annuity to sign up for in order to provide yourself with the funds that you need in order to retire, it is important to ensure that you are getting the best annuity rates that you can from a reliable insurance company where [...]

Our $300+ Pile of Laundry

Featured as a Carnival of Money Story. We don’t own many clothes. While this may be clear to others upon first entering our sparse walk-in closets, I only recently realized this while packing for our 12 day trip abroad. Turns out that I don’t just enjoy doing laundry like clockwork on Friday mornings, but I [...]

Our 2010 Energy Consumption and How We’re Set to Save $171 Next Year

The average U.S. household spends $2,200 per year on energy consumption. Of course average oftentimes does not tell the whole story: this number includes 8 person and 1 person households, 5,000 square foot homes and 500 square foot apartments, all regions of the US, and the whole gamut of household incomes. When we fell in [...]

Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here’s my confession of the week: I took advantage of the Target deal on the Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush. The sale was for $37.99. I used a $25 coupon from the 11/21 Smart Source, then I used a $10 target printable coupon. The total came to $3.24. To top it all off [...]

Forced Donations: A Nuisance or a Necessity

Charities have taken quite a hit in the last few years. As American’s wallets became more and more pinched, donating to the Salvation Army at Christmas time or to the food bank became a luxury item. What is the result? While alcohol consumption remained largely unchanged throughout the recession, charitable donations decreased by 3.6%. On [...]

Sales Pressure Tactics

I dedicate this article to a person I can only describe as “the Mattress Man”. A few weeks before graduating college, my mother and I went to a local mattress store to start shopping for something I would need for my first apartment: a bed to sleep on. We entered one of those strip mall-mattress [...]

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