Entries from May 2010

Monday, May 31st, 2010

4 Options for Getting Rid of Old Phone books

Those ubiquitous yellow bags started showing up on my street last week–the ones that carry this year’s batch of new phone books. Of course, with the advent of online directories, such as Switchboard.com and plain old Google, sometimes you really don’t need a phone book anymore–except if you have a small child come to dinner [...]

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Freebie Friday (May 28-June 3, 2010)

Some non-Memorial Day freebies for you to enjoy in the coming week and, in some instances, all summer long! Get a free vanilla cone at Sonic when you print out this coupon and bring it with you on May 29th! Kids can hit the lanes for free games this summer at all 93 Brunswick Zone [...]

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Memorial Day Freebies

This Freebie Friday post focuses exclusively on free things to do, see or get that tie into the Memorial Day holiday weekend here in the United States. Enjoy! Free Stuff for the Military and Men/Women in Uniform From Memorial Day, May 31, 2010, through Labor Day, September 6, 2010, active duty military personnel and their [...]

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Don’t Forget to Stock Up with Memorial Day Deals

I was scanning the supermarket fliers from the two grocery stores in my town, something I always do before I grocery shop. For the first time ever, the stores had comparable–if not exactly the same–prices on many of the items I keep on my master grocery list. Then it dawned on me: what I like [...]

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

5 Financial Suggestions for Surviving Kids’ Sports

This past weekend had at least two members of our family at a basketball tournament. Last weekend it was volleyball. If you have kids like I do who play sports, then you know that your weekends and free time are often spent shuttling kids to games, practices and tournaments. And in the process you could [...]

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Freebie Friday (May 21-27, 2010)

Hoping to put together some awesome Memorial Day freebies for you for next weekend. In the meantime enjoy this week’s Freebie Friday roundup. Enjoy some fun and food, all for free, at Bass Pro Shops’ “Free Family Fun Weekend (May 22 & 23). (Thanks to Frugal Fritzie for a heads up on this fun event.) [...]

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

How to Talk Money When the Kids Move Back In

It isn’t just the boomerang generation that’s moving back in with their parents after college. In this day and age, many family members are moving back in together to make everything affordable for all involved. And when you put related adults under one roof–after they’ve lived apart–well, things could get dicey, especially when it comes [...]

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

3 Ways Twitter Can Save You Time and Money

Signed up for Twitter yet? In case you don’t know Twitter is the microblogging social media site where you post messages that are 140 characters or less. These are called tweets. I’ve been on Twitter for about three years now, and I definitely go hot and cold on it from time to time, as far [...]

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

7 Travel Essentials You Can Find in Your Trash

I’m all about finding creative ways to reuse items on my quest to live frugally. I know I get that from my mother, who still saves plastic containers that something store-bought came in so she can reuse them for storage. Take one look at my rag bins and you’ll see I have a hard time [...]

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

5 Ways Not to End Up a Statistic on Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial beginning of summer and, as I know from a trip one May weekend a few years ago with my daughter, a busy time for emergency rooms nationwide. (The triage nurse congratulated me for getting to the ER before sundown, because it seems that after dark is when most of [...]