Make Saving Money Part of Your Travel Adventure
According to Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler: Three hundred years ago, wealthy young Englishmen began taking a post-Oxbridge trek through France and Italy in search of art, culture and the roots of Western civilization. With nearly unlimited funds, aristocratic connections and months (or years) to roam, they commissioned paintings, perfected their language skills and mingled [...]
Live Small To Live Large
There’s a live simple movement underway in America and there are as many expressions of this ideal as their are individuals living the dream. Peter King in Vermont, for instance. He doesn’t pay rent and he doesn’t pay a mortgage. I like this man’s spirit and his way of thinking. The country needs more citizens [...]
Like Quicken But With Community
Kathryn at Million Dollar Journey suggests that we write it all down—what we eat and what we buy. When you write down what you spend and what you eat, it’s easier to see when and where over-spending and over-eating occur. It also provides accountability when you know later that you’re going to have to write [...]
Get An Education In “This We Can Afford”
There’s no doubt that millions of families who have been saving diligently for their kids’ college tuition are finding their accounts woefully short of the insanely high costs colleges are charging for a B.A. these days. A fact which has sent applications (and thus competition for a spot) at state schools sky high. Thankfully, there [...]
Freeing Yourself From Debt Is Personal Empowerment 101
I’ve Paid for this Twice Already is a blog about one family’s journey toward financial freedom. I like the spirit the writer—a 30-something married mom of two with a PhD in Genetics and a 3rd degree blackbelt in taekwondo—brings to the project. For instance: Debt used to be a very basic part of my life. [...]
Frugality Hype Can Overshadow Meaningful Financial Discussions
I find it amazing that many of us go to bed earlier than we want, get up way earlier than we want, travel further than we would on a day off, all to get to get to some place we would generally choose not to be—work. We then spend the majority of our waking day [...]
Things that Make You Go Hmmm
A penny saved is a government oversight. Birds of a feather flock together and crap on your car. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is [...]
Amazon Deal: LOST Blu-ray Box Sets
Until July 16, 2009, Amazon has a deal going where you can get 30% off boxed sets of LOST on Blu-ray. I know that LOST can be highly addicting and if you happen to already have a Blu-ray player (or a PS3), you might want to check it out. Heres the link. There are also [...]
A Fine Example of Consumption
New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less This made me lol, and I wanted to share it with other…man I love the Onion.
Phone Carriers are Stealing Your Money
Tod Philips over at Geeks Are Sexy wrote up a great piece on how he is saving a ton of money on Skype and the unreal taxes being charged to his long distance account. Almost 30%!! Check it out.
