Today's 365 frugality tips, as part of my Year of Renewed Frugality (or YRF), focuses on why it makes sense to start consigning your clothes. Trust me--you can make some decent money from selling clothing and accessories you're not longer interested in wearing or keeping. I tell you how.
I am participating in the 2012 version of Women’s Money Week, which is all about encouraging women to speak up about money, take control of their finances, and reshape their financial futures. Women’s Money Week is a first annual event running from March 5th-11th, 2012 — coinciding with International Women’s Day. The organizers of Women’s Money Week have identified topics that bloggers like myself should be covering each day. Today is Day 1, and the topic is either entrepreneurship or making money. I’m choosing the latter, because in the past I’ve offered my Suddenly Frugal readers lots of ideas...
(Here is the text version of the tips I offered earlier this week on the 10! Show.) The best way to live frugally is to stock up on stuff when it’s one sale. And in March you’ll find deals on lots of things worth buying, if not stocking up on. Here are the five frugal deals you can find next month. 1. Winter gear like skis Regular stores will be marking down the winter sports gear but if you head to a shop like Play It Again Sports, where I got my cross-country skis, you’ll pay even less. Even...
Frugal fatigue seems to be setting in across America, or at least that’s what an expert in a recent Associated Press story “Shoppers Stay Cautious” said. This article, which focused on a slight bounce back of retail sales, seemed to indicate that people were beginning to shop again, much to the relief of retailers. “The 31 retailers that Thomson Reuters tracks reported same-store sales were better in March than analysts expected,” the article read. “And Gallup estimates that the average daily consumer spending it tracks rose from $53 in mid-March to $71 by the last week of the month.”...
Now that we’ve embraced frugal living, I’ve learned to fall in love with thrift-store shopping. It’s a love that I’m passing along to my own daughters, ages 11 and 13, as I wrote about in this back-to-school shopping post. And when I say thrift store, I’m not just talking about a clothing collection in a church basement (though you can find some rare gems there, too). What I’m thinking are consignment shops, resale chains like Plato’s Closet and well-known stores like Goodwill. Recently, I was reading a piece over at the Simple Mom blog on thrift store shopping tips....
