Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category

Buy a huge gift card with your rebate?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Retailers are lining up with carrots to help you put your economic stimulus check to good use. For large gift card purchases at stores like Kroger, Sears, KMart, and others, the retailers will kick in extra value on the gift card: up to 10% above what you pay for. Is ...

This stuff was made for yard sales

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Our Lions Club had a community yard sale a couple of weeks ago. There used to be a bigger selection of things to choose from but we don't have the same space available to us that we once did, so there aren't quite as many bigger items.We still get ...

Ragging on free stuff lacks class

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

One of my daily break-time reads is Coding Horror. Jeff Atwood is almost to 100k subscribers on that blog; it's quite popular.Today Jeff's post rags on WordPress, the blogging engine that powers this blog as well as all the others my wife and I have. It's free to ...

The day that green sunshine was blown around the world

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

(Fair warning: rant ahead! Check out some really cute puppies or join MyPoints if rants aren't your thing.)I think I knew that Earth Day was coming up but the real reminder came when I checked Google today. They changed their logo's primary colors to a happy, huggy lush ...