How Much We Earned From Recycling

May 13, 2009

Today I went to the recycling center with a car full of stuff. 34 pounds of glass, a few pounds of aluminum cans, and a whole lot of plastic. Total earned: $9.18. It didn’t feel like all that much given how long it took to accumulate that many containers, sort them, and take them down [...]

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Spending (and Saving) Money on Swimsuits

May 5, 2009

It seems as though swimsuit season is right around the corner. The options for most of us are either to:

wear the old one in our closet that either doesn’t fit any more or is faded from years of washings, or
go out and search and search for one that fits our body and our budget, only [...]

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The Frugal Couple – Episode #4 – Our Parents’ Role in Our Financial Development

April 22, 2009

David Podley and clinical psychologist Dr. Joe Dilley talk about the effect our parents’ had on our financial development and how we choose to pass or not pass these traits on to our children..
This episode can be downloaded through this link, or you can subscribe to our podcast updates through iTunes (for free) by clicking [...]

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Saving Money on Groceries – Tip #2 – Don’t Look at Eye Level

April 18, 2009

It may sound funny, but if you were only to buy items that are on the bottom two shelves or the top two shelves in the grocery store aisles, you would save quite a bit.

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College Costs Calculator

April 16, 2009

I put up a rather detailed calculator that helps parents understand future college costs. You can find it by clicking this link.

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Saving Money on Groceries – Tip #1 – Take a Calculator

April 13, 2009

I’m a bit of a numbers nerd. Long before groceries began placing the cost per unit size (cents per ounce, dollars per pound, etc.) on price tags, I took a calculator to the market when I shopped. I’d gotten out of the habit because of the convenience of the help the store provided, but I’ve [...]

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The Frugal Roundup – April 13, 2009

April 13, 2009

Here are some posts out there you might be interested in.
Trent at TheSimpleDollar wrote a post about 50 Side Businesses You Can Start On Your Own. (He doesn’t mention my side business – starting a letterpress printing business in your garage, but that’s for a different day.)
I found an interesting series of comments on vacuum [...]

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Save That Lamp – Instructions on How to Fix a Broken Lamp

April 10, 2009

This is somewhat off-topic, but it has to do with being frugal, so here we go.
For some reason, a bunch of our friends have had broken lamps lately. The switches for the light sockets have stripped on many of these and it’s a simple fix if you don’t mind getting out a screwdriver and [...]

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The Frugal Couple – Episode #3 – Figuring Out How to Assign Expenses in Your Budget

April 9, 2009

David Podley and clinical psychologist Dr. Joe Dilley discuss how to categorize expenses in your budget when you and your partner don’t see eye-to-eye.
This episode can be downloaded through this link, or you can subscribe to our podcast updates through iTunes (for free) by clicking this link that will take you to The Frugal Couple’s [...]

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