5 Fees I Hate to Pay
As companies, states, and local governments are scrambling to make up for shortfalls in profits from sales taxes (because people are not spending themselves into the red as much anymore—hurrah!), new fees are popping out of the woodworks. No one likes to pay fees, but there are some that have become mainstream that I find [...]
5 Breaches of Frugality: Do These and Consider Yourself Cheap
fru⋅gal /ˈfrugəl/ [froo-guhl]: economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful cheap [cheep]: stingy; miserly Something that bothers me is when someone uses the word ‘cheap’ and ‘frugal’ interchangeably. I am a frugal person, and proudly so. I am not cheap, and when I sometimes cross the slim border between the two [...]
