Pecuniarities

By giving up chocolate and ice cream for one month as part of our “Financial Lent”, we will save $14, which could potentially add up to 140 servings of one of our frugal recipes.

An introduction to frugal living with basic tips for saving money in everyday life.

Favors for Nice Customers Here are some examples of our experience in dealing with customers in our business where we, as a business, decided to do one of our customers a favor in return for niceness on their part. Example #1 We have a customer who has ordered costumes from us for her Great Dane [...]

For some reason, Daylight Savings Time seems to have advanced by a month and begins today, March 9, 2008. So make sure all your clocks are advanced by 1 hour or you might be late for work or an important appointment tomorrow. One of the great things about modern technology is its ability to implant [...]

I recently learned a very important lesson about the pitfalls of complacency. Since June 2004, we had been with an auto insurance company called South Coast Auto Insurance/Anchor General, which we had chosen for its competitive rates in the Los Angeles area. When we moved to a more remote area in December of 2005, we [...]

While generic brand items, especially groceries, seem to have improved in recent years, there are still many things that you need to watch out for that may seem to save you money at the time of purchase but may end up costing you more in the long run.  With the advent of the Dollar Store, [...]

Money on the Mind: Social and Psychological Ramifications I came across an interesting article on MSN Money last night titled Does money make you mean? which described a study conducted on a group of subjects who had been preconditioned to have money on their minds when various experiments were conducted. The study found that those [...]