Archive for 'Money Saving Tips' Category
How to Avoid Excessive ATM Fees
12 August 2006One of the easiest way to waste lots of money is with ATM fees. The sad thing is that it’s also one of the easiest ways to STOP wasting money. If you’re strapped for cash, your goal should be to never pay a single ATM fee. It’s a waste of money because with a little [...]
Get Free Stuff on Craigslist
11 August 2006If you’re a bargain hunter and you’ve never been to Craigslist.com, you’re missing out. It’s the single best website for classified ads on the Internet. One of the better features is that since it’s free, you see a lot of stuff you wouldn’t find in a traditional newspaper. The biggest of these is that people [...]
A Great Example of the Benefits of Negotiation
11 August 2006Over at Free Money Finance, there’s a retro post of a story of how a woman saved $1000 on a set of appliances by going back and forth between stores, asking them to beat her previous best offer. Discuss this on the Free the Drones Finance Forums.
Get free passes on Museum Day
10 August 2006Museum Day is coming up, which I’d never heard of, but over at the MomAdvice Blog there is a good reminder that you can get a free family day trip out of the deal. Museum Day is a holiday on Saturday, September 30th, where museums mimic the Smithsonian and let everyone in free. As MomAdvice [...]
Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipes
9 August 2006For the frugal among us, I thought I’d pass on these recipes for you to make your own laundry detergent. Via the Frugal Shopper, there are several ways to do it. The easiest recipe for powdered detergent is probably this: 1 Cup Grated Fels Naptha Soap 1/2 Cup Washing Soda 1/2 Cup Borax For light [...]
How to get Cheap Computer Software
9 August 2006From Then Things comes a tip on how to get cheap software for your computer: find a friend who’s still in college and have them use a student discount to buy it for you directly from their university. As she points out, there are some pretty heavy discounts at most colleges – to the point that [...]
Thrifty Tip: When You Change the Oil in Your Car, Use it to Clean Rust From Your Tools
7 August 2006Here’s a tip to clean rust off your tools for free: instead of spending $5 on some rust remover, wait until the next time you’re changing the oil in your car. Get a bucket and fill it up with sand. Put the oil in there, mixed with the sand – you want it to be [...]
Fatwallet – A great way to keep track of good deals
7 August 2006Via MyQuo, who posted about his experience with the site. Fatwallet.com is a site dedicated specifically to keeping track of deals, discounts, and special offers that various companies offer. It’s a forum where people actively point out special deals offered by various companies, combined with a program where if you shop at certain places, you [...]
How to Deal With Your Finances When You Hate Money
6 August 2006How could someone hate money? Well, people do, as this post by My Financial Awareness indicates. A lot of people have the attitude that money is something evil – and that to think about it or talk about it makes you greedy or some kind of heartless Scrooge. Some people think it’s almost virtuous to [...]
Thrifty Tip: Save Foam Packing Peanuts and Reuse Them
5 August 2006There are two basic ways to improve your financial bottom line: save more from your budget, or make more money coming in. From time to time the blog will include tips that help you pinch pennies – because over time they add up. Whether it’s a better idea for you to focus on scrimping and [...]