Froogle Spending

As most of you know, my sister is getting married tomorrow so blogging has been on the very back burner the past few days as I’m knee deep (or maybe up to my eyeballs?!) in helping with wedding preparations, decorations, and so forth. I’m loving every minute of it, though! We just got home from the [...]

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Remember all those Kraft coupons which were available not too long ago? I used the $1/3 Jell-O pudding coupons at the Double Dollar coupon sale at our local grocery store to buy a number of boxes of pudding for pennies per box. In addition to making some yummy trifles, I used the pudding last week for [...]

This is the ninth of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramseys The Total Money Makeover, where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the tenth chapter, finishing on page 182. The next entry, covering the eleventh chapter, will [...]

A friend of mine who has published a small pile of books made a really good suggestion recently: why don’t you use Twitter to really practice your key phrases? In other words, if you’re trying to find a sharp way to say something, work on honing that sentence yourself, then toss it out there [...]

This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fools Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. I dont want to dump on your boss. She/he/it gives you a job (assuming you [...]

Photo: tannazie Dining out is one of the great pleasures in life. Fine food, great drinks, a meal with friends and the next thing you know you’re loosening your belt. But with a troubled economy everyone is tightening their belts. You can still enjoy dining out, even on a budget. Do you know the best days [...]

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In recessions and booms alike, stock markets are always at the forefront. Newspapers and financial publications are awash in headlines about the Dow Jones, S&P 500, NASDAQ, rising stock indexes, falling stock indexes, buying, selling, and so forth. And it is tempting to think of a stock market as an impersonal mechanism in the sky, [...]

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I love great deals on all-natural and organic products, but who can beat free? Whole Foods currently has Back to Nature Mac and Cheese on sale for $1 a box. Use the $1/1 printable coupon here (click on “eCoupons” and go to the second page) to get these free after the coupon! There’s also a [...]

There’s a new $1/1 Morningstar Farms product coupon here. Combine two of these coupons with the $2/2 Target coupon here to get $2 off each package at Target More printable coupons:$3/2 products from the Glade Fragrance Collection (Thanks, Amanda!) Don’t forget to print your $1/2 BIC coupons and the $5/$25 Rite Aid coupons here. The BIC [...]

Over the past few months, GRS readers been recommending two applications that I haven’t found time to mention — until today. These two utilities perform simple but important tasks. One is a password manager, and the other allows you to share your documents — including financial documents — across multiple computers. KeePass Here, for example, is an [...]

On our DVD shelf, which is admittedly quite thinner than it used to be, there are quite a few DVDs that we’ve watched once and are simply accumulating dust. Assuming a cost of $15 per DVD and a two hour movie, our hourly cost is about $7.50. On the other hand, we have our Pixar [...]

Guest Post by Meredith from Like Merchant’s Ships One ofour biggest frugal pleasuresis sharing our home and food with others. I can almost always whip up a neighborhood coffee or deliver a meal during hard times. But how are you supposed to budget for hospitality? Will your own family end up eating rice and beans because you sent too many chicken [...]