Institute a Month of Free Entertainment

“The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom” - German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer I remember in my early teen years when my mother and my then-stepfather used to take me and my five other siblings (two from our family and three from his family) out to dinner and a movie. About once a month [...]

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 [...]

Freebies and Discounts on Veteran’s Day

Paul is a Veteran; he was a cryptologist in the Navy for six years. So Veteran’s Day in our household truly means something. As a thank you to all of you, I’d like to do a post on freebies that you can enjoy today for serving our country. Grace For Vets is Offering Free Car Washes [...]

What to Do With Free Samples

I don’t need much of an excuse to send away for free samples. My obsession with doing so began back in high school with my friend Aurora. One night during one of our sleepovers, we were looking for fun things to do. We decided to send away for lots of free samples. We made a [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday

Happy Friday Frugal Confessions Readers! If you are new to this series, check out the intro here. Here is mine for the week: The previous owners of our home left a cloth shower curtain (as well as the plastic inside one; we used that as covering for the carpet during painting in the last few [...]

Spending Lockdown: When Your Stockpiles Come in Handy

Our hiatus on spending money began Friday night. The reasons are twofold. Number 1: our mortgage broker sent us an email that said we basically have to report to them anytime between now and closing when we move money around between our accounts, charge more than $500 on our credit card, or breathe. And Number [...]

Free Living

Sometimes using free tickets, eating leftovers, and taking advantage of giveaways seem to not really amount to anything. Maybe once a month you go to a free museum opening, and one night a week you have leftovers. This does save you money, but it doesn’t seem to add up quickly enough because it is spread [...]