Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category

Nine frugal last-minute Halloween costumes that rely on puns

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Halloween is Sunday, and you don't have a costume yet?  Fear not!  Here are nine quick and easy Halloween costumes that won't break the bank, and will at least give you a few groans from incredulous passersby.  To make it a little more fun, I'll post the answers in the ...

Meal planning for plugging budgetary holes

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Chief Family Officer and I go waaaay back: we both started blogging in 2005.  She, being the consummate CFO, has been far more regular with monitoring her routines than I have.  (By contrast, if you were to count the number of times I start something up on here, and then ...

Know what you’re saving yourself from

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

A colleague at work was twisting my arm to get an Xbox 360 so that I could "play with all the cool kids" and get my butt handed to me in the new Halo game.  This was after telling him that I already had a Wii.  As a parting shot ...

Tangible peace of mind for living more frugally

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Beks over at Blogging Away Debt is now officially finished with a self-imposed 60-day-long moratorium on dining out. She had a few hiccups along the way but overall had great success with the program.  Even as early as week three she was getting into full swing of the new meal regimen, ...