Liquidate Your Past and Invest in Your Future
Please note: If you are my ex and are reading this, then it is not your jewelry I pawned! Ever since being engaged (we are E+ two weeks now, as my fiancée likes to keep track of time after the big day), I have had this consuming desire within me to organize, de-clutter and simplify [...]
How to Save Money on Your Wedding—Part II
The first article in this series is available here. Our wedding was on April 17, 2010, and we were thrilled with the results. Here are some additional ways we have managed to save money on our wedding (remember from the first article that average costs are from the book Bridal Bargains): Music/DJ for Ceremony and Reception: [...]
From Wedding World Back into Reality
Registries, gowns, the best cuts of meat, champagne, and the finest sheets with high thread counts: weddings are a far cry from reality. Everything is delicate, brilliant, and made to be consumed as if it were the last you would ever experience in your entire life. Weddings are so different from weeknights with leftover meals [...]
Possum Living: A Book and Honeymoon Review
I wake up in between a set of sheets so old and worn from washing (the thread count must be around 27 at this moment) that I might as well be lying on the 20-year old mattress below. There is no heat in this cabin, and so we’ve taken two sleeping bags leftover from when [...]
One of the Luxuries Money Can Buy: Sanity
For those of you who have never had a wedding, let me explain the mindset that I am in. Our wedding is less than two weeks away, and while all of the large details are taken cared of, there are about 30 smaller details still left. These details include anything from tux pickup, marriage license, [...]
Honeymoon Savings Goal: March and Final Tally
Since September of 2009, I made a goal to put $2500 into savings to be used for our honeymoon using as little of our own 9-5 paycheck money as possible. I am happy to report, just 22 days away from leaving on our honeymoon, that we have succeeded in doing this. We thought outside of the box, and [...]
Honeymoon Savings Goal Update: February
Our honeymoon is getting awfully close. I set a goal starting last September to raise $2500 for our honeymoon with taking as little money as possible out of paychecks to do so (instead using bank offers, rebates, side income, etc.)…and as of last month we were at $1670. In other words…another $830 still to save! [...]
Honeymoon Savings Goal Update: January
Hello Everyone! We were able to add $301.99 to our honeymoon savings goal this month, bringing the total to $1,670.78 (check out progress bar in right hand column). The breakdown is below: $121 from ING Checking Account Opening Bonus $120 from Freelance Writing Income $11 Hasbro Rebate $9.99 Oil of Olay Bodywash Rebate $10 Gas [...]
December Savings Goal Update: Honeymoon
Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! If you check out the progress bar for paying cash for our honeymoon, you will see that we are now at 54% of our goal! While that is wonderful…I realized the other day that our honeymoon is just three and a half months away. Needless to say, we need to get [...]
How to Save Money on Your Wedding—Part I
According to Bridal Bargains and various other sources, the average 150-guest wedding in the United States costs around $30,000!! Ofcourse, this number is an average, so it includes the million dollar weddings as well as weddings that are $500 (as pointed out by the authors of Bridal Bargain). But based on this average, where is [...]
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