Posts Tagged “money saving”

5 Cheap Ways to Eat Out

By | October 14, 2010

You need to be smarter about the way you eat out, because it can be done cheaply, and you don’t have to compromise on any of the quality or the experience.

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The Only Thing You Need to Know:

By | October 5, 2010

How do people accumulate millions, billions, gazillions of dollars? In many different ways: they inherit, they win, they gamble, they take out life insurance policies and hire hit men (JOKE). But for the most part, “rich” people become rich by saving and investing.
Here is the easiest thing I know about saving.

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Why Diets Fail & Saving is Difficult

By | September 30, 2010

On nearly every New Year’s resolution list out there you’ll find some variation of “lose weight” and “save money.” Do you see a problem with either of these goals? Clearly there is one, because so frequently people fail to achieve them.

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What I Wouldn’t Do for Frugality

By | September 23, 2010

Our goals define largely how we view every single expense and our frugal mindset should be linked to these goals. It’s very possible to spend hardly any money at all. It’s even easier to spend all of your money at once. Neither would make much sense without considering how you envision your financial future.

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Home Economics: Beer Brewing

By | September 3, 2010

This guest post from Trey in New Mexico goes with the theme of the week: living thrifty does not equate to joyless living. The Thrifty are not an unhappy, deprived people. They simply know how to weigh their wants against their really-wants and are able to set the former aside. Read how Trey was able to turn a passion into a hobby, and a hobby into a way to save some cash.

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Value Size

By | September 2, 2010

The so-called value meal touts more bang for your buck, but only if you shell out a little more buck. Who asked for more bang? Maybe the bang-to-buck ratio was just fine.

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