Save Money on Food Part 4: Dinner

We are all at various stages with our food expenditures. Perhaps you have mastered the art of grocery shopping but are still managing to bust your budget on restaurants. Or maybe you brown bag all of your lunches but can’t seem to get your monthly grocery bill under $400. Do you eat out for every [...]

Save Money on Food Part 3: Snacks

photo credit: rwhgould If I could snack all day and not eat meals, I would. In fact, I eat light meals and then snack in between—it’s just how my body works and what makes me feel most satisfied. I always carry snacks around in my purse, and have purchased a few Tupperware containers so that [...]

Save Money on Food, Part 2: Lunches

I have a confession to make: I ate out lunch for every work day over the last two weeks. I could say that it was some great pre-meditated money experiment that I had budgeted for in order to show others how much it truly costs to eat out for lunches instead of packing a lunch [...]

Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here’s my confession of the week: Paul attended a beer brewing class several months ago and really got into it. I have decided it would be super cool if he were to brew a batch of beer and then we could have a beer tasting party with friends and family. Ingredients [...]

Save Money on Food Part I: Breakfast

We have arrived at the category of how to save money on food, one of the most talked about subjects in the personal finance realm. To make this part of the Save Beyond Your Means Series helpful to as many people as possible, I am going to list each category of food spending on a [...]

Save Money on Gas

Sticker shock: I pulled into the gas station one week ago. It was like any other Thursday with the sun shining a buttery color and tinting the whole upcoming weekend with beautiful prospects. And just as I was beginning to let my workweek unwind, replacing my shallow breathing with deeper, life-affirming breaths, the pump stopped [...]

How to Donate for Free to Japan Tsunami and Japan Earthquake Relief Efforts

Donate to Japan: Even you can afford to help in the aftermath of Japan’s Tsunami and Earthquake because you can do it for free. My longtime readers know that Japan holds a special place in my heart: my husband and I met there 8 years ago. Paul was a cryptologist in the Navy working on [...]

Not-So-Green Confessions

This is a Guest Post by Sustainable PF who writes with his wife, Mrs. SPF, at Sustainable Personal Finance where they discuss balancing their financial goals with their lifestyle and beliefs regarding sustainable living in Ontario, Canada. Psst.  I have a not-so-green confession to make.  Actually, make that five.  Mrs. SPF and I don’t do [...]

That Six Letter Word: B-U-D-G-E-T

For most people budgets are a drag. They represent constraints and being an adult. The word itself conjures up images of spreadsheets and the Grinch. But let me ask you this: have you ever gotten into a fight with your loved one over money (I have)? What about that feeling in the pit of your [...]

Physical Restraints to Help Shopaholics Stop Spending Money

For some of us, spending less than we earn does not come naturally. We spend when we are bored, when we want to reward our efforts, when we are feeling depressed, when we have a new date or an important upcoming event, when, when, when…do you get the picture? For some people, every occasion is [...]

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