Category: Frugality
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Buy a Plastic Grocery Bag
Hefty ® has outdone them selves this time. They have taken something that we get free and have an overabundance of and boxed it up 10 to a pack for your convenience. How do these companies do it? Yet, somehow Hefty ® seems to think we need to buy these bags because there are ‘œ101…
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Laziness and My Lamest Money Drain
I absolutely love to cook. I always have, but since moving into my own place and having my own kitchen I’ve sort of exploded. This weekend, I successfully navigated my first solo pot roast and made bagels from scratch. Cooking, especially the kind of extreme cooking you associate with grandmothers or holidays, feels at once…
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WWYD: Gifts that keep on giving; the art of regifting
Regift: (verb) To give an unwanted gift to someone else; to give as a gift something one previously received as a gift. ‘“ Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition Jeanine and I recently received a lovely hostess gift and after realizing ‘“ what it was and where it came from ‘“ I said,…
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Reducing, Re-using and Re-claiming
How are you reducing, reusing and reclaiming your life? The documentary ‘œAn Inconvenient Truth‘ helped me understand my impact on the world around me, the documentary ‘œAffluenza‘ helped me understand the amount of waste I have in my life, and the many documentaries I have seen about the poor conditions people live through in other…
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Saving Money on Christmas Trees
‘œThe perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!’ ‘“ Charles N. Barnard When Jeanine and I try to cut corners and save money, it typically is a disaster. Like the time we canceled our cleaning service at the house. This money-saving experiment lasted about two minutes and the ironic part of the story was…
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The Elite Shop at Costco: Learning from the Scandal of 2007
The older and more conservative about money I get, the less interested I become in trying out all the newest restaurants. Perhaps I’ve lived in the same city too long and find scarce distinction across menus; maybe I’ve dined out so much that the novelty has worn off. Whatever the case, a dinner at home…
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Git’˜er done for Free
There are a lot of places online to get things done’¦and many times you won’t have to shell out a dime. I remember back in the late 1990’s coming across a website called Craigslist. Anytime I have moved, I have used Craigslist to sell those things that I didn’t want to haul to a new…
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“Housing Starts” Curb Affordable Luxuries: the Venti of Economic Indicators
‘œStarbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.’ ‘“ Howard Schultz Back in college (circa 1986), I was hired one summer by a small marketing firm in Ohio to do research on housing starts. Even though I was majoring in marketing and had just completed a Statistics and Research Methods course the previous semester, I…
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I moved to Indianapolis for the money!
I’m very excited that I have been asked to be a contributing member of Queercents. I’ve never been a writer, so I ask that you excuse any mild grammar errors. My interests are in real estate, debt reduction, and tax reform (including FairTax). The vast majority of my posts will tend to fall in these…
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Save Money and Landfills with Canvas Grocery Bags
‘œYou see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.’ ‘“ Anthony Robbins On Blog Action day, I wrote that I was tired of the plastic bags piling up after our grocery visits and finally was going to…
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