Frugal
America’s Cheapest Family Saving Money
Monday, June 9th, 2008Annette and Steve Economides are known as America’s Cheapest Family. They currently have a book out called America’s Cheapest Family, Gets You Right on the Money, which shows how they live, raised five kids, paid off their first house in nine years, and never had a car payment. You can find their website here and [...]
U.S. stamp prices raise to 42 cents
Sunday, May 11th, 2008On Monday, May 12th, the price to mail a first class letter will raise a penny to 42 cents. If you have have Forever stamps you won’t have to worry about anything since they are not affected by price increases. It has been reported that 6 billion Forever stamps have been purchased since they went [...]
Cutting expenses while cutting hair
Thursday, April 24th, 2008To save money on hair cuts I’ve been cutting my own hair for the last 5 years. I’ve only had it professionally cut twice in that time. Once for a job interview and the second was for my wedding. I bought a hair cutting kit for about $30 from Conair and it came with everything, [...]
Recycling Refund: April 2008
Monday, April 21st, 2008Every few months we make a trip to the recycling center and drop off our card board, paper, glass, metal, and plastics. Some of the items earn us money, it isn’t much but it’s better than nothing. This time we had a grand total of $5.80.
Glass: 1 bottle for $0.05
#1 Plastic (PETE): 5 lbs for [...]
Lowering your cable bill
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Here are a few alternatives for watching TV shows to avoid paying for high cable bills. I have started to turn the TV off and be more productive rather than being glued to the TV for hours everyday. Since we no longer watch as much TV, we are only subscribing to the basic cable package. [...]