Pecuniarities

Madoline and I lived in Los Angeles (in the San Fernando Valley) for a year and a half, during which time we went through a shopaholic phase followed by a phase of extreme frugality (described in Our Family Financial History). When we decided to be frugal, I learned a lot about free and low cost [...]

Use your brain to help you save money. Take a few moments out of your day to think about the things you do and what you could change or do instead to save money while still accomplishing the same or improved results.

Many of us who have been practicing the frugal lifestyle already know about the ability to borrow books, audiobooks, movies, music, software (maybe not all libraries), etc. for free from our local libraries. But it occurs to me that fewer people might be aware of the many more resources available online through our libraries’ websites. [...]

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.

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 [...]

Having a mini home gym can save you hundreds of dollars a year and get you more exercise in the long run.

Our cousin, aunt and uncle are a loyal patrons of the Taiwan lottery. (Or at least my cousin was until a recent tarot reading convinced her to cut back on the lottery purchases.) But when she first arrived in April, she purchased 2 or 3 California Mega Millions lottery tickets and convinced me to do [...]