Frugal Confessions – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! My friend snagged a social buying site deal for half off four admissions to the Cockrell Butterfly Center. She invited Paul and I, and we all enjoyed a beautiful Sunday afternoon this past week in the tropics surrounded by colorful butterflies! It is one of my favorite places in Houston. The [...]

The Big Reveal: Did We Meet our Goal of Saving 50% of Our Take Home Pay in 2011?

In a word, no. But what a great experience! I always believe that you should shoot for the heavens because when you miss you will still fall among the stars—and the stars are a beautiful place to be. Here is a great example of this in action: in 2010 we had a personal savings rate [...]

Get Out of the Land of the Conditional and Own Your Resolutions

When I was in my early twenties I went to an acupuncturist who quickly caught onto my limited vocabulary of should, could, or would. Almost every sentence I used then had one of these words in it—a thought accompanied by a heaping side of guilt. It was so bad that my homework after one session [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here is my frugal confession of the week: I have mentioned here before one awful consequence of the severe drought in Houston this year: foundation problems. We were quoted a staggering $7500-$9000 in order to fix our foundation from several different companies. Well, for the last two months our area has [...]

Save Money on DVDs

This is a guest post on behalf of Tesco Entertainment. There are many ways to find cheap DVDs on the internet and in the shops, but there are also many other ways that you can cut your DVD expenditure. With lots of other movie lovers out there, you can find hundreds of ways designed to [...]

Donate Money by Giving Your Time on Your Computer

The end of the year is a popular time to make donations. Not only is almost everyone feeling warm and fuzzy from the holiday season, but with tax season looming many would rather donate money to organizations than to pay a large tax bill. If you are feeling the warmth of the season and would [...]

Homemade Holiday Gifts that Won’t Collect Dust Part II

We are less than one week away from Christmas! Each year I stumble upon some neat homemade gift ideas from bloggers, companies, magazines, etc. and I thought this year I would take some time to share some of these great finds with you in case you have a few people (or a lot) left on [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Here is my frugal confession of the week: Remember a few weeks ago when I scored 40 free digital prints for my grandmother from Walgreens? Well, I found a coupon from RitzPix in the Sunday paper that week for a free picture book (typically $19.99). I was able to take photos [...]

Text Spamming: Does it Cost You Money?

I’ve been ignoring text spams on my phone for too long. It started out with just one text spam out of the blue that I quickly erased. Then I began seeing them every other month. Now I am receiving text spams about once a week. The most recent one was from Sender 42227 and read, [...]

Legacy Gifts Will Last Longer and have More Meaning than Store-Bought Gifts

Paul and I usually spend Christmas in PA with my family and will be doing so again this year. One of our favorite things to do is get up early on Christmas morning and walk/drive over to my sister’s house to watch our niece and nephew open their gifts from Santa. Everyone is in their [...]

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