It’s not about the latte
Giving up your daily latte may not be the path to instant riches. But it might still be a path worth taking.
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Be Frugal With Your Money: Not Your Words
If you’re like most of us, you’re probably not in sole charge of all the spending in your household. While it’s easy for singles to keep complete control of all their spending– it’s not quite as easy for the rest of us to keep control of spending when one has a spouse who needs to [...]
Read More >>Conquering Clutter: How to Clean Up Our Homes (And Make Some Money on the Side)
Admit it — decluttering the house is perhaps one of our least liked activities. There’s a kind of love-hate relationship between us and our stuff which we refuse to confront until we can no longer open our basement door because of all the “junk” that’s sitting there. But how did we really get to accumulate [...]
Read More >>Budget Vacations, Here We Come!
School will be out soon and while most of us are raring to go on that family vacation, sadly, not all of us can afford to. Or if we choose to go through with it anyway, some of the fun is taken out of the supposedly stress-free vacation because we have to compute and then [...]
Read More >>Hi, my name is Dave and I’m frugal
As the title of the post says, my name is Dave and I’ll be blogging for you today. I’m a stay-at-home Dad and freelance writer. My partner works outside the home and I stay home and look after the kids; her two teens and our daughter who will be seven next week. It’s probably no [...]
Read More >>The power of planning
Photo by NURR You should always have a plan when you are going to spend money. Consider just three areas where we regularly save by planning. Groceries. Planning the meals to cover a week or two weeks will help you stick to a budget. Instead of buying food on impulse, you can plan each meal [...]
Read More >>Frugal vacation
Photo by wild friday First and foremost, plan well in advance. Survey a few different places to go, and do some quick online searching to get a feel for the costs. We went to Park City, Utah last summer because summer is their off-season, and had a great time in the sun. Check the hotel [...]
Read More >>How to find an affordable vacation rental
I’m writing this from an affordable vacation rental, which happily came with wi-fi—hence the reason I feel free to dole out advice on this subject. Here’s what worked for me: Be as flexible as possible. Originally we were thinking about going to Yellowstone. I’ve never been, and we were going to be in the general [...]
Read More >>How much do you have in savings?
I’m curious: I’d expect the readers of this blog, as a rule, to be more financially savvy than the general public (not because I’m so brilliant, but because you obviously are interested in making good money choices or you wouldn’t be reading about personal finance). So here’s a poll, and I’m hoping you’ll weigh in. [...]
Read More >>New online personal finance software
There are a limited number of good, free personal finance programs available, and less that are web-based and platform independent (meaning I can recommend them to anyone). So it was with great interest that I read a press release today announcing a new online personal finance budgeting application: MySpendingPlan.com. A first glance at the site [...]
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