Frugal

A Little Investigation And Elbow Grease Saved Us Over $150

by Glen Craig
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My wife was vacuuming the house. She notices that the vacuum isn’t picking up as well as it should (this has happened before and we had discovered that the hose was backed up).  No big deal.  Then we smell a real nasty smell of rubber burning.  And the vacuum stopped picking up dirt.  Oh no.  [...]

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Need A Last Minute Gift? Amazon To The Rescue!

by Glen Craig

It happens all the time.  You think you covered gifts for everyone and without fail you find you need one more at the last minute. Or a person you didn’t expect got you something and you want to return the gesture.  What to do?  Do you try to run out to a store last minute, [...]

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How Some Readers Stretched Their Gift Budgets (And The Gift Card Winner)

by Glen Craig

We had a total of fifteen comments that qualified for the Marshalls/TJ Maxx gift card giveaway.  I used Random.org to generate the winning comment (each comment is numbered).  Comment 12 from Sarah R is the winner! Congratulations Sarah!  I’ve already sent an email to get mailing info to send out your card. I loved all [...]

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$5 Dinner Mom Cookbook Giveaway

by Glen Craig

There’s a new cookbook that’s come out that sounds like it’s great for families and the frugal-minded.  It’s called The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook.  The book is written by Erin Chase, author of the popular site 5DollarDinners.com.

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Saving At The Supermarket Is FUN!

by Glen Craig
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My Money Blog posted an article a few months ago talking about the theory of “price targeting”, where companies try to sell the same product to different people at different prices, hoping to come as close to an individuals’ target price as possible.  In the use of price targeting, shoppers are generally broken down into [...]

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Go To The Museum For Free – Bank of America Museums on Us

by Glen Craig

What a wealth of culture and learning we have here in NYC! The only thing holding us back from taking in all of the museums, gardens, zoos, and whatnot is time and money.  We’ve been trying to make the time to take the kids out and do things with them whenever we can. That leaves [...]

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Frugal Shopping With BJ’s Wholesale – Trial Pass

by Glen Craig
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Do you want a free trial membership to shop at BJ’s Wholesale? BJ’s is offering a free 60-day pass for new members if activated by July 7th, 2009 (click on link and print out the coupon). Why try out wholesale shopping? Because it can save you money! You have to know what you want and [...]

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Take Up A Sport And Become Good At It

by Glen Craig
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Take Up a Sport and Become Good at it This is a guest post from the blogger behind Studenomics, a personal finance blog that offers common sense advice for college students and recent graduates.  Studenomics is the ultimate resource for young people looking for advice on  how to survive this current recession, grow their careers, [...]

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Way’s To Save On Mother’s Day

by Glen Craig
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Mother’s Day is quickly approaching!  It’s easily a day you can go crazy taking care of the moms in your life.  But there are ways you can be frugal for Mother’s Day! Here are some frugal Mother’s Day ideas: Cards – You must know you don’t have to go to the local card store and [...]

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Frugal Ideas To Help Your Home Sell

by Glen Craig

We recently put our home on the market to sell. Man, do we have a lot to do to get the place in ship shape!  We have been busy for the past couple of weeks doing what we could to make the place look more appealing to a potential buyer.  Living there for so long [...]

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