Archive for 'Money Saving Tips' Category
How Do You Save For Retirement If You Barely Make Enough To Live On?
31 August 2006That’s what this Yahoo Finance article discusses. It’s a very difficult question to answer, because if you don’t make that much money, there’s not much left to squeeze out of the budget in the form of savings. The best advice is probably here:
The other side of the equation is to increase income. Take a second [...]
What’s Your List of Things You Get For Free?
31 August 2006Tired But Happy made hers after her son wanted to pay the librarians to check out books. It’s a good idea – just like making a budget in the sense that figuring out what you aren’t spending money on can show you what areas you have big holes in terms of being frugal on. She [...]
Recycle Your Old Electronics Through E-Bay Rethink
30 August 2006I’d never even heard of this, but FireFinance points out that E-Bay has a great program where you can make some money from the old electronic devices you have sitting around the house, such as cell phones and computers. They’ve partnered with a few other companies that will buy your stuff – generally you pick [...]
Tip to Getting Good Deals At Yard Sales: Go Late in the Day
28 August 2006Pretty much everyone knows the standard rule of garage sales and yard sales: whoever goes the earliest gets the best stuff. But they may not be getting the best deals, as Mighty Bargain Hunter discovered. He found that if you go to them at the end of the day, people are desparate to get rid [...]
Make Restaurant Reservations Online For Discounts
26 August 2006The Internet has all kinds of little hidden gems that you have to randomly stumble on sometimes, and here’s one that you might not have heard of: there are several sites that are trying to be the “Fandango” of restaurants, where you book a reservation in advance over the Internet. Many of them have some [...]
Watch What You Carry On A Plane
25 August 2006SMB’s Financial Coups has a good point about an easy way to waste money – carrying items in your luggage that are now banned under current flight rules. She was forced through a security checkpoint with a bunch of lotions, shampoos, and other banned items in a bag she planned to check – and had [...]
Car Maintenance Tips to Keep From Visiting the Mechanic
24 August 2006SmartMoney has an article on how to keep your car from needing to go to the mechanic as often. It’s got ten different tips for how to drive your car that will make a big difference on the wear and tear you put on the engine. Some of these are things that probably very few [...]
How to Dumpster Dive
23 August 2006From HollyRhea comes a post on her experience and advice on “dumpster diving,” which is basically just trying to get free stuff by jumping into dumpsters and digging in. I don’t know about the whole eating food you find in there idea – frankly, I wouldn’t be caught dead doing it. But to each his [...]
How to Buy Organic Food for Cheap Prices
22 August 2006Wenchypoo’s Warehouse has a good post on ways to get organic food for a lot less. I won’t get into the politics of it, but if you’ve decided to go organic, you should try to save as much money as you can when doing it. She buys in bulk, goes to farmer’s markets, and joins [...]
Thrifty Tips Thursday
21 August 2006For those of you into saving money by trying to be more frugal, there’s a good blog over at Momma and the Boys Living on A Budget that posts weekly roundups of various tips on being frugal from other blogs called Thrifty Tips Thursday. It’s something to check out if you’re living on a tighter [...]