The following excerpt with tips on how to cut your grocery store costs is from Recession-Proof Your Financial Life, written by Nancy Dunnan and published by McGraw-Hill. The cost of milk, bread, eggs, cheese, and just about everything else has gone up this year. Yet you, your family, Fido, and Kitty must eat. Here are…
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Category Archives: Frugality
Exploring a Financial Fast
There are always times in our lives where we have to scrape by with just a few dollars to spare. Whether it is sudden unemployment, or moving into your first apartment after college, it is often surprising at how far you can get by on just a few dollars. Just the other day I was…
How to Watch Cheap and Free TV in Canada
One day, when I was about 12 years old, I was watching TV with my dad on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The show we were watching ended so we switched to the television guide to see what was on. At one point, we saw a good TV show on one of the channels we didn’t…
20 Tips for Saving Money on Groceries
Groceries are something that we spend a lot of money on each year. We can’t avoid buying food so it’s important for us to learn how to save money at the grocery store. The following twenty tips can get you started saving money on groceries: 1. Buy in-season fresh produce. It is typically less expensive…
Do You DIY?
Ever since I was a little kid, I was always interested in building small things. Besides the usual Lego suspects, I also enjoyed making model planes and cars, piecing together little kits, and pretending that I knew how to build a tree fort. Even when I was a teenager, I was (and still am) very…
Building an Inexpensive Office Wardrobe
As I’ve mentioned before in Find Free Exercise, I’ve never worked in an office setting before. Since college, all of my jobs have been outside, so my daily “uniform” has drastically changed over the last few months. When I was working for an irrigation company, I could wear whatever I wanted, as long as I…
Find Free (or Cheap) Exercise
I’ve always been skinny. It’s not that I don’t eat a lot of food, or I always eat healthy food, and it is not that I hold to a rigorous exercise schedule. I was just naturally born that way. I’m also quite tall, I’m about 6’3″, so my skinniness has always been quite obvious. To…
