DIY
Jump Start Your Savings
Back in April, I wrote an article about Jump Starting Your Frugality, and it has seemingly been well received. Now we are going to approach this from another angle: Savings!
Getting your savings in order is a tricky thing…It’s just enough ‘out of sight, out of mind’ that you can easily dismiss it throughout the day [...]
How to Reduce Your Car Insurance Payment
As the price of gas gets worse, food prices rise out of control and finding a reasonable mortgage gets more and more difficult, we need to find a better way to save money. One way is through our car insurance. My significant other and I both have USAA and we both love it. But I [...]
The Art of Hypermiling
One of The Washington Post’s most esteemed writers, and coincidentally, one of our favorites, has written a nice piece on hypermiling. Before we go any further, lets first define what hypermiling is…
Essentially what it entails is altering your driving behavior to get better gas mileage. Sounds simple right? Well there is a lot more to [...]
Be Your Own Expert
“Do it yourself,” a frugal man’s favorite words. If you are anything like me, you might take this to the extreme. I attempt to do most everything myself, whether its home improvement projects or automobile repairs, I’ll give it a try. However, before starting a new project, I’ll be the first to tell you that [...]
What is a Staycation?
While a few of our compatriots within the Money Life Network have written a few articles about their experiences on vacation, I have an article that I have been meaning to put together and hope that I am not being contradictory. I don’t feel too bad suggesting an alternative due to the fact that I [...]
Do It Yourself Auto Maintenance
Nobody likes to take their car in for repairs or general maintenance; it seems it’s impossible to leave without shelling out a couple hundred bucks. But what many people don’t know is that many of the common problems associated with cars as well and nearly all general maintenance, can be done by you, the owner. [...]
5 Quick Tips For Milking Your Money in the Market
As we move ahead with this diabolical ARS issue, its becoming more and more clear to me that the way Americans might be best suited for investing is a little more robotic and a lot less emotional. At least on some level. I am guilty of making decisions within my portfolio that are [...]
Earth Day: Make Every Day a Frugal Day
As we can see from Google’s page, it is officially Earth Day 2008! This is a good time to address the environment and within that vein to address the savings that go along with that. More and more products are becoming increasingly available for consumers to both save the environment whether its by [...]
Visa Gift Card Lab Has Custom Logos
As we see, quite a few of our colleagues have had contests on their blogs, we thought that now might be a good opportunity to present an interesting idea…Give away a visa gift card with your blog with your websites logo on it! This would provide the winner to have not only a tangible thing from winning, but it [...]
My Dumbest Purchase Ever
Today I would like to reflect on one of my most infamous purchases. This was a long time ago and has since drilled some nice principles into my spending habits and the way I spend money. I still make mistakes now and again but this was one of the first that really hit home that [...]
