Category Archive for: ‘Save Money’

• Save Money By Sharing One Car

  Wisebread published an article this week which detailed in part the expenses incurred when taking on a second car: According to the American Public Transportation Association, replacing one car with a combination of walking and public transportation saves a household $8059 per year in reduced [...]

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  Menu Planning: 6 Tips To Get Started and Recipes From The Kitchen Staples List

  Click the image to enlarge Let’s face it, school starts in a few days, the summer is coming to a close and you need to get back into a routine for the fall and winter months. Why not make it easier by getting started on [...]

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  Whole Foods On The Cheap? Tips On Shopping At Your Favorite Organic Food Destination

  The Whole Foods gods must have been listening this week as we adjusted our food budget to only include organic foods.  This means only shopping at Whole Foods and after reading this article, it cinched the decision as the following statement blew us away because [...]

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  Quarter Life Personal Finance: 5 Tips To Manage Your Money In The Midst Of Chaos

  If you recently graduated from college then you’ve been hit with the task of managing your own finances.  You may now have a job with a decent paycheck and along with that comes bills, unplanned expenses and learning to balance your checking account.  During this [...]

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• How To Save Money On Your Summer Family Vacation

  Amidst rising prices on pretty much everything you can think of these days, how are you planning to save money on your family vacation this summer? Are you planning to stay home in favor of a staycation or will you chance it and have fun [...]

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• Money Saving Tips For College Students Living on Campus

  photo credit: ycr  More than likely you know someone graduating high school and heading off to college this fall. After getting over the shock of the first year’s tuition bill, they’ll be in need of some frugal tips to get by while living on [...]

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  Bulletpoof Your Finances with Lessons from the Recession

  photo credit: uberzombie Have you been depressed around the impending recession or how we’re stuck in stagflation? What if there was a way to bulletproof you finances with lessons from the recession? Well, if you ever wanted to get tips on how to solidify your [...]

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  8 Frugal and Cost Cutting Tips for the Newly Independent

  photo credit: CarbonNYC May is around the corner which for some means graduation from high school, college or graduate school. I remember the feeling well. And, while it meant being released from the bosom of self discovery into the arms of adult responsibilities, I looked [...]

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  Cheap Alternatives for the Must Haves in your Life Pt. 1 of 3

  Admit it. Being frugal isn’t something that you look forward to, after all it means that you’ll be giving up or cutting back on some or all of your favorite activities. What if you found a way to cut back without giving up those things [...]

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• Free money? What shall we do?

  I’ve gotten a few emails and chatted this up somewhat ad nauseum with friends about the money coming our way from Bush’s economic stimulus plan. *sigh* Let’s be real here folks. We are in a recession. However, remain optimistic and protect yourselves. If you get [...]

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  Beat Finance Companies Skunk Drunk On Their Own Kool-Aid

  (Photo: Istockphoto) ABC finance company called early this morning to inform us that we were late on our first payment for a recent furniture purchase. We apologized for the late payment and explained that we thought that the terms included no payments for 12 months [...]

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• Groceries Busting Your Budget? Take a Seat.

  The Wall Street Journal has a great article-Higher Food Prices Start to Pinch Consumer, and while it seems rather dismal there are things we can do to reduce the rising costs of food prices. To some this may seem pretty simple but not only are [...]

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• Eating Junk is Expensive!!

  Eating junk now leads to chronic illnesses later which means trips to the doctor, time off work which then means losing wages if you end up exhausting sick leave. This leads to stress about missing work due to illness which then leads to lower productivity [...]

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• ACORN changes

  I talked with our former ACORN representative today to get up to date information on how the housing crunch has affected their program. Prior to the recent sub prime issues ACORN had a pretty decent program, here are the details in a snapshot: Now the [...]

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  Menu Planning: Save Money, Time and Lose Weight!

  My husband and I are pretty busy during the week. This makes it hard to come home from a long day at work and classes to cook a healthy meal. Especially one large enough to last for the next day or two. This past fall [...]

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