Spending Wisely

The Key Components of a Cost Effective Car

Buying a car is a big commitment: make the right decision, and you will have a reliable, faithful companion that helps you make and save money. Make the wrong decision, and watch your cash spiral away. Here are some tips to help you choose a reliable and affordable car that’s cheap to insure and run [...]

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7 Killer Shopping Tips for Costco or Sam’s Club that Will Save You a Bundle

For some people, money is no object.  For the rest of us, money isn’t as available as we’d like.  We look for ways to make every dollar count, especially during times when the economic outlook isn’t particularly rosy.  By not spending unnecessarily and, when we shop, by spending wisely, we do what we can to [...]

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Buying for the Future: Do You Make This Mistake?

Have you ever found yourself buying something for the life you plan to have (or the life you hope to have) instead of the life you’re actually living?  Many of us would give a knee-jerk, “No, of course not!” response to this question without really thinking about it; but the simple fact is that many [...]

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Getting a Great Deal on Used Cars

In these pressurized financial times, many more buyers are scouring used car markets for a good deal. Wishing to avoid “first-owner’s loss”, many buyers are eager to find one-year-old cars that are still under warranty, although cars older than three years can still deliver good savings. A good starting point is online, where it’s possible [...]

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Your Cell Phone Bill Was What?! 3 Easy Ways to Reduce the Cost of Owning a Cell Phone

You can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. Nope, I’m not talking about your spouse. I’m talking about your smartphone. You can’t seem to get by without having a mobile phone these days. They do everything from keeping us connected to helping us better manage our lives, and you can’t help but [...]

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Couponing Update #2 – What I’ve Learned So Far

It’s been nearly 3 months since I embarked on my little couponing adventure. If you read my original post on extreme couponing you know that 3 months is the amount of time I committed myself to using coupons. Well, it didn’t take long for me to realize that couponing can definitely save us money and [...]

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Skip School Supplies in Favor of Android Apps that Do the Job Instead

The following post is by Taylor Spence. In spite of owning a smartphone myself, I would have never thought about this if my friend who recently received her nursing degree hadn’t mentioned it. According to my friend, even attending South University online involved having to buy plenty of notebooks and other classroom basics. That was [...]

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Is Extreme Couponing for Everyone?

By now you’ve probably seen or at least heard of the TLC show Extreme Couponing. Thanks to my DVR I’ve been able to watch it and I’ll admit, I’m totally addicted! I’d heard the stories before of people that used coupons to pay pennies on the dollar for their groceries but I never really believed [...]

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Using Your Credit Card To Be Frugal

This is post from Mr Credit Card of www.askmrcreditcard.com. Today, Mr Credit Card is going to talk about how to use credit cards to be frugal. Credit cards are a controversial subject among the frugal crowd. Many feel that carrying plastic is an incentive to spend more. Certainly both banks and retailers count on the [...]

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Is it OK to Splurge When You’re in Debt?

I’ve written a lot about our debt here and every month in my Net Worth and Goals updates. Paying off our debt is our top priority after establishing our Emergency Fund. The thought of being debt free makes me giddy and I’m pretty confident that if we follow our plan we will pay it off [...]

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