All Entries in the "Save Money" Category
Cooking at Home with Basic Kitchen Staples Saves You Money
This is a guest post by Dr. Yakini, publisher of Girly Home Webzine, an online lifestyle magazine for ladies. Girly Home Webzine is devoted to providing readers with fresh and unbiased information about all things chichi! Dr. Yakini is a clinical psychologist and freelance lifestyle writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She owns and edits Girly [...]
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 completely? And best of all save [...]
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 an extra check from [...]
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 because we planned to pay it off in full in [...]
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 we battling ourselves in this area (buying things [...]
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 which leads to sleepless nights which begins the cycle [...]
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 program has been stripped to:
3% down
620 credit score (Wasn’t credit [...]
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 semester we fell off the menu planning [...]
