People are Likely to Waste Money on Money Saving Gadgets
It’s as if being frugal means its ok or even necessary to waste money on gimmick products that claim to save you money. Perhaps, people who are historically conservative with their money feel as it is their obligation to purchase products like a plastic cap that keep soda cans slightly fresher or a gadget to [...]
Use a Cheap Candle Warmer for a Coffee Mug Warmer
Awhile back, I looked everywhere for a coffee cup warmer because I cant stand when my coffee gets cold at work. I was tired of pouring cold coffee down the drain or getting a buzz by slamming the cup before it chilled. After looking everywhere for a coffee mug warmer, I finally just settled on [...]
Don’t Let Advertised Savings Trick You into Spending
Don’t you love it when people go shopping and come home with bags of new merchandise and justify their budget busting spending by saying, “I saved more than I spent.” When I go to the store and get tempted into buying something that is on sale, but wasn’t on my original shopping list, that the [...]
Better Save Than Sorry
I saw this on an ING billboard on my way to work today and I love it. I don’t know about you guys, but the recession-like economy is starting to show its colors. At first, most of us just pretended it was bad, but didn’t really care. Then, maybe we heard of a friend or [...]
Invest in America’s Past Time – Beer
I’ve toyed with this idea for some time and recently started thinking there may actually be some validity to it. This idea that has had my head spinning (literally) for some time now is simple – invest in Americas past time, beer. I know what your thinking, Americas past time is baseball. Correct you are, [...]
Is Your Patience Tanking with the Market?
If you have been paying any attention to the markets lately, then you probably have noticed the huge fluctuations the past couple of weeks. Key market events, like the Fed’s decision to keep the interest rate idle, and the rise and fall of the price of oil, seem to mean more to investors than companies actual [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Things to Consider When Purchasing a Car
Many vehicle owners think they are ahead of the game when they trade in their car after 3-5 years of ownership. By doing so, the owner thinks they can avoid the high cost maintenance that comes with older cars. This thought process makes sense for a second, but that’s about it. Generally, [...]
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 [...]
United State’s Newest Epidemic – Insufficient Financial Literacy
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Congress, regulators, and the financial services industry are pointing fingers at each other in an attempt to pass the blame regarding who is at fault for our current credit crisis. In reality, everyone probably shares a piece of the blame; however, to leave a lack of sound financial literacy out of the equation [...]
25 Biggest Real Estate Mistakes
Right before I left work today, I read an interesting article at Bible Money Matters, that couldn’t have come at a better time for me. Peter expands upon the notion that purchasing a home, especially for first timers, is a long, complicated and inevitably full of hidden costs. Some of these I had [...]
If Its Not Broke, Maintenance It
As many of you may remember from an early posts, my wife and I commute into work together. We do this not only because of the substantial cost savings of only operating one vehicle, but we do this because we only have one vehicle. Our little car has been through a lot, to [...]
Cost Analysis of Bottled Water Versus Filtered at Home
Main stream media occasionally drives me nuts. So many times on the Today Show, they go on and on about a certain topic, and then right at the very end, they call in an expert who very succinctly, and sometimes, even intelligently explains how the previous 15 minutes of terrible gloom and doom are [...]
Monthly Round Up for March
Every month we will gather up some of our most well received posts and quotes, in case they were missed as well as to give some financial highlights to consider for the month ahead. We will also discuss some of our sites traffic activity. Have you subscribed yet?
So this is our second month [...]
