Category: Frugality
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101 Ways to Save a Buck (or Two or More)
I got an email the other day from Rich over at CareOne letting me know of a recent article they posted called “101 Ways to Save One Dollar a Week”. Now I don’t have any personal experience with CareOne so I can’t comment either way on their services, but I thought the article and topic…
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The Money Value of Yoga: Are Classes Worth the Cost?
My previous yoga article was essentially a primer for this, oh… let’s light-heartedly call it an embedded journalism piece. What I really want to uncover is the real value of yoga. At the time I wrote, Ironing is the New Yoga, Sort of, I was enrolled in a Yoga 101 workshop that was to commence…
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Ironing is the New Yoga, Sort of
I’m often rewarded with serendipitous discoveries when browsing the internet. Case in point: Garmentcare.info. But we’ll get to why I love this site in a bit. First I need to tell you about my obsession with yoga. No, I don’t do yoga often, or ever, actually. I’ve done it once many months ago, for about…
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A Costco Fable: The Day Money Became Real
Sometime last year, one of my co-workers purchased an iHome clock radio for his office. He kept raving about how perfect the playback was for an office setting. I agreed. The music played audibly, but not so loud as to disturb others. I sort of wanted one too, but to shell out $89 just to…
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When to Replace a Computer: A Buying Guide
I have exciting news to share. I recently discovered that at the rate I’m paying off my credit cards, I’ll have a $0.00 balance on all of them in 6 months! That’s assuming I don’t keep adding to my balances. There is one purchase I’m dying to make that will certainly set me back: a…
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There’s Money in the “Monthlies”
Gentlemen, if the functions of a woman’s body make you queasy, avert your eyes now. You have been warned! And ladies, if you would like to know how anti-gay and anti-women Proctor & Gamble (P&G) is milking you out of thousands of dollars in your lifetime, read on. While some of us may view our…
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Sleep in Truck: Student Pays Off Credit Card Debt
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” — H. G. Wells Here’s some financial news of the strange just the down road from me. On Monday, Seema Mehta at the LA Times reported on how Andy Bussell is living in his truck in her feature: Homeless by Choice, O.C. Student Learns Self-Reliance.…
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Rich and Rob Go Furniture Shopping
I have a terrible, terrible confession. I’m on the Pottery Barn mailing list, and I absolutely lust after the things I see in their catalog. Their items are rather pricey, in fact not at all frugal. And yet I can’t help myself, I love what I see. In the words of Absolutely Fabulous, “they have…
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When Life Gives Hurricanes: Make Hurricane Aid
“Who practices hospitality entertains God himself.” — Proverb Lewis Routh and his long term partner lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. This is their story about how they lost everything but found kindness and hospitality through the queer community in Galveston Island, Texas. This experience gained them a new life, a…
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