A superior baby gift
savingadvice over at Financial Baby Steps has great post called “A Perfect Newborn Gift – 529 College Saving Plan“. I think this is a great idea, and the newborns in my life will probably benefit.
Read More >>Archive for September, 2005
The trickle-down effect
I couldn’t resist the punny title. Today I’m talking about shower heads, specifically the low flow variety. I’ll keep it short: if you don’t have one, consider buying one. For around $20, you can get yourself this lovely device that will cut your costs (for water and the power to heat it) by about $175/year [...]
Read More >>The cost of brand buy-in
Driving around town this morning, I ended up behind a Nissan Xterra with two stickers on the rear window: an Apple sticker and a Patagonia sticker. None of these things are terribly remarkable on their own, but put together, it looked to me like a picture of brand buy-in. Let me say up front, I [...]
Read More >>Happy Monday!
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for the Carnival of Personal Finance and the Carnival of the Capitalists! Definitely worth looking through when you have some unallocated time.
Read More >>Save money with your change
I’m one of the millions who throw their change in a bucket at the end of the day, but I have always kind of avoided doing anything with it. Part of this is because my husband is enamored with the coolness of one day having a monsterous bucket full of change, but it’s also because [...]
Read More >>New (to me) investment
A few months ago, I heard about a type of investment that was completely new to me. I’m relatively investment-savvy (in theory, even if my practice is limited), so the fact that I hadn’t heard of it before got my attention. While undoubtedly some of you (who know more than me) have already heard about [...]
Read More >>Save on produce
Produce is wonderful and lovely, but I lose a fair amount of money on it because it goes bad relatively quickly. Part of this is bad planning on my part (buying more than we’ll reasonably eat in a given time period) but I recently found out that some of it has to do with how [...]
Read More >>The Carnival of Debt Reduction debuts
For some excellent reading, hop over to the the premiere installment of the Carnival of Debt Reduction on MightyBargainHunter.com.
Read More >>My debt-free dream
I have had the goal of being debt-free for a long time. I frequently state that I want to have the house paid off by the time I’m 30 (I’m 25 right now, so that’s asking a lot). Once the house is paid off, that puts us at mostly debt-free; our other current debts are [...]
Read More >>Consider using coupons
Some frugalites love coupons, and some consider them a waste of time. Both camps have good reasons for their convictions, and since it mostly comes down to a time vs. money priority, I think they can both safely assume that they’re right. However, there’s a full range of coupon use (definitely not all or nothing), [...]
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