Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category
Friday, September 18th, 2009
OK, so I'm reading the July, 2009, issue of U.S. News & World Report that my mother-in-law left the last time she visited, and I happen on an article called "Frugal Forever?" written by Kimberly Palmer, senior editor at U.S. News and blogger at Alpha Consumer. (She had several articles ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Shopping | 25 Comments »
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Dawn over at Frugal For Life discusses some of the ethical implications of stockpiling foods. She gets into a few rules of thumb for testing to see whether stockpiling has crossed into greed, or just plain inconsideration. Talking to the store to have them do a special large-quantity order is ...
Posted in Economy, Frugal Living, Shopping | 10 Comments »
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Over at the MBN Forums there was some discussion about a short video presentation called Drive Free, Retire Rich over at Dave Ramsey's website.
The first part of the presentation (up through Slide 11) was very well put together, and showed perfectly the value of buying used over borrowing and buying ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Investing, Retirement | 6 Comments »
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
The Frugal Duchess offered up a reader's question for comments. The reader was concerned that she was spoiling her son with garage-sale toys:
... I am concerned because I finally realized how spoiled my kids are. I've been buying them whatever they liked, although it's from thrift stores and yard sales. ...
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