Mighty Bargain Hunter

Festival of Frugality number twelve!

February 28th, 2006 | by mbhunter |

Welcome to this week’s Festival of Frugality!

No messing around — here we go:

• Crayon on your linoleum? Hard-to-clean cheese grater? Some frugal and resourceful kitchen tips from Frugal For Life.
• There have been lots of posts over the past few months on how much pets cost. Free Money Finance passes on some tips for saving on pet costs. He also has a bunch of links to posts related to the cost of pets in this post.
• Profligacy with your home purchase can be devastating, as Don’t Mess With Taxes talks about.
• Fresh-made almost always is tastier — and cheaper — than store-bought. Salad dressing is no exception, and The Common Room shares some favorite recipes.
• Becoming frugal involves some meticulous analysis of where your money goes. Aridni outlines some how-to’s.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, originator of this Furstival of Fragility, uhh… Fraggle of Fertility, uhh… FESTIVAL OF FRUGALITY (whew!) chats about how you can save money by telling others what you’re going to buy.
• Is the cure worse than the disease? Sarbanes-Oxley compliance isn’t cheap.
• Mom was right – doing the dishes every night is good, and it can even save you money! Paranoid Brain explains.
• The sheer number of options for tomato products defies comprehension!!! But Adventures in Money Making, against all odds, perseveres, and lives to purée another day.
• Seven kids for the price of one? That’s the number of kids Life in a Shoe is raising and the price she’s paying. For real!
• Buy 39¢ stamps for 35¢, the Sound Money Tips way!
• And 5¢ Nickel wants to know the inner workings of your coupon habits!
• “If only we could do to our debts what NFL owners do to their players’ contracts,” we’d be doing pretty well!
• Every little bit helps when you’re scraping together an emergency fund. Young and Broke assembles her favorite resources for doing this.
• “Darn those socks!” A command from Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge.

That’s it for this week’s Festival of Frugality! It’s always a pleasure reading the posts. Simply Thrifty hosts next week.

Questions tagged credit-card at Cash Commons:

• Anybody have sucesss with 0% Balance Transfers on Credit Cards?
• Two of my credit cards got hit with fraudulent charges the same day. What gives?
• Where to rent a car without a credit card?