Frugal Confessions Friday!!!
Posted on | February 26, 2010 | 7 Comments
Hello Frugal Confessions Readers!!!
I was supposed to be flying out in 15 minutes up to PA to take care of more wedding details…but my flight was cancelled, so I will *hopefully* be flying out tonight. d
Here’s my confession of the week:
This actually was pure dumb luck…but it definitely saved us money! I was ready to purchase our one-way tickets up to PA for our April wedding two weeks ago. Southwest Airlines was having a sale, so it seemed like a good time. However, the price came to $279 for both of us, one way, including taxes. This seemed quite expensive to me.
Anyway, I held off on buying the tickets until yesterday when my new credit card cycle began. The total this time? $186!!! That includes taxes and everything–that was a $93 savings for something we were going to buy anyway!
What are your frugal confessions of the week? I’d love to hear them.
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February 26th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
That’s awesome y’all were able to save that. Okay, what I did truly was miserly but it was more a result of boredom than anything else. I rented a movie at Redbox the other day which I’ve been doing quite a bit lately because they placed one about two blocks from where I live. Anyway, I took one back late and looked at the receipts for it since they’re so good about sending them and what I saw was that they were both for $1.08 which didn’t make sense to me. My thought has always been that goods and services are taxable but fees are not. I understood the rental charge being taxed because that is a service but taxing the late fee? I didn’t get that at all. Redbox was kind enough to school me in sheistiness: it all depends on what you call it. They don’t charge “late fees” they said. They charge “additional rental fees”. Hmmpphh. Whateverr.
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February 26th, 2010 @ 12:50 pm
I keep an off-brand Ramen noodles bowl (SunLee) in my desk at work for days I forget to pack a lunch. I add in hot water from the coffee machine and voila.
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February 26th, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
crystal – I do the same thing! I like to keep cans of soup or packets of oatmeal in my desk for days when I forget (or am too lazy) to pack my lunch.
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March 1st, 2010 @ 9:51 am
Aurora – I have oatmeal in my desk too since I stopped eating cereal at home every morning.
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March 4th, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
I love Southwest! I was helping plan a bachlorette party… plans were not going well. Back several months ago when they were having their $25 sale we decided to take advantage of it and get tickets to NOLA for $70 round trip! Instant bachlorette party and girls weekend and we had blast!
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March 4th, 2010 @ 1:59 pm
I cancelled my cell phone in order to switch to a cheaper plan which only allows three phones – DH, my son, and my daughter got to keep theirs. In all, it will only save my $22/mo., but I can always use my son’s phone when I need one and we still have a home phone. I also decided if I should end up regretting the decision, I will go and buy an inexpensive tracfone w/no contract.
This is a confession because I haven’t told anyone yet…I’m too embarrassed that my kids get to have phones of their own and I am not ‘important’ enough to keep mine
The funny part was that my son begged and begged and BEGGED for a phone last Sept. for his 12th birthday. I finally relented, even tho’ I knew it was going to send the bill thru the roof; the other day he said to my DH, “I think it was a really great idea mom had to cancel her cell to save $$.” Hilarious!
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March 8th, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Holly, you poor thing! I hope you barely miss it.
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