If you’re like me, you love a discount where ever you can find one. But are you aware of all of the places to look for these discounts? For example, do you receiving a telltale blue-and-white postcard from home accessories store Bed, Bath and Beyond in the mail on a regular basis? Is there even [...]
So in my quest not to spend money haphazardly, I’ve managed not to go food shopping for almost two weeks. This morning, there were such slim pickings for breakfast and for packing the girls’ camp lunches that I was shaking crumbs out of the cereal boxes into their breakfast bowls and reaching all the way [...]
Last weekend we threw an at-home birthday party for Annie, who turns 10 in a few days. For many years running, we would outsource the her and her sister’s birthday parties. Sure, these were expensive endeavors but it made our busy lives easier. One year Annie had her party at The Little Gym. Another we [...]
Now that I’ve been keeping a closer watch on our expenses, I’m amazed at how much money we’ve spent getting sucked into “conveniences.” Before we moved we had a cleaning lady, which was a wonderful convenience (in that I could count on my home being spotless every Monday). But thanks to the home organization site [...]
One of my favorite shopping inventions in the recent past is the gift card. I love to give them as a gifts and I especially like receiving them for birthdays, holidays and other special occasions. There’s nothing like the joy of shopping on someone else’s dime. For a long time, though, I would get a [...]
One of the cool things about our new house is it is around the corner from our public libary. Literally, around the corner. I just measured the distance with my car’s odometer (I was running a non-walkable errand and figured I’d see exactly how far away the library is from the house), and it’s 3/10 [...]
When we were getting ready to move from our old place, we knew that there was a ton of stuff that we wouldn’t need in the new place and/or didn’t want to bring with us. These were things both big and small, and not quite right for selling on eBay. However, before I put everything [...]
In my opinion Payless Shoe stores are the best thing to happen to girls who like shoes (me!) and who don’t want to pay through the toes for fashionable footwear (me again!). Sadly, though, I cannot partake of Payless’s bounty because while they carry wide shoes, Payless does not carry double-wide shoes. I am a [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post how we were running out of milk, and I was going to use this “I need to pick up milk” experience to see what kind of bargain I could find on milk. Turns out I needed to pick up a few other things, and so I was able to [...]
So we’re running out of milk. There’s probably enough fat-free milk in that gallon container in our fridge to eek out one bowl of cereal tomorrow morning, but with two kids to feed before the 8:20 a.m. bus, I’m going to have to go out and get milk tonight. Mary Hunt, the Everyday Cheapskate, recently [...]
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