Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here is my frugal confession of the week: Last week Paul and I and two guests were invited to a prescreening of Rio in 3D. What a great movie, and the free 3D tickets saved us a combined total of $45. What is your confession of the week? I’d love to [...]

Direct Selling: The Potential to Increase Your Bottom Line and Your Cupboards

Visualize this scene: I am sitting with my sister at a Tupperware rally (aka, a revival for consumerism). There are streamers, there is glitter all over the berber carpeting, and there are spray-tan women with microphones. As an early-twenty something still in college I don’t quite have my footing in life, nor do I know [...]

Extreme Frugality: 9 Unbelievable Frugal Stories by Everyday People

I love to read about people’s extreme experiments with frugality. These are stories of people just like you and me making the impossible an actual reality, and saving a bundle in the meantime. Even if you never dreamed of recycling enough cans to pay for your wedding (could you imagine how many you would have [...]

Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here is my confession of the week: I am super happy to report that after several weeks of diligently hypermiling (not in a dangerous way), I have increased the Mustang’s average miles per gallon from 21.6 to 22.2!!!! True, this does not make a huge difference, but I am optimistic that [...]

Get Rewarded for Your Efforts to Lessen Your Carbon Footprint

Have you ever heard of the Cap and Trade program? It is a program that sets a maximum amount of emissions of a certain pollutant (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc.) that each regulated facility can emit, and then allows facilities to sell any amount of that pollutant that they manage to reduce below their maximum [...]

Denmark: Highest Tax Rate and Happiest People

Most of us don’t like paying taxes because it is more money out of our pockets. This can be especially true if we do not believe in the types of policies or programs our tax money is funding. Because of this, you would think that the country with the highest tax rate in the world [...]

That Most Overpriced of Foods: The Hot Dog

With July 4th quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to write an article about a food pivotal to any picnic, party, or barbecue: the hot dog. It’s a simple, great tasting finger food enjoyed by kids and adults alike, and relatively cheap. What could be more American than the hot dog?…how about taking [...]

2009 Spending

Frugal Confessions Friday!!!

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers, and Happy Friday! For those of you new to this series, check out the introduction here. Here’s my frugal confession of the week: There are lots of baby showers coming up for me, as well as probably for some of my readers. In the past week I found some great ways [...]

Options for Selling Your Car

When I wanted to sell my car a year and a half ago, I knew that I didn’t want to go the traditional route. I sold my beautiful (tears are welling up) 1997 Chevy Cavalier through Craigslist. In October 2009 it failed for any number of reasons, and we decided that we needed to part [...]

keep looking »