The True Cost of a Coupon
Like many frugal femmes, I love to clip coupons. Every Sunday I relax with a cup of tea, a sharp pair of scissors and the Sunday paper. I flip through all the coupons and clip any I see for products that I regularly use.
Recently, I’ve noticed many stores pointing consumers toward the use of online [...]
Financial Impact of Moving from New Jersey to Virginia
Though we have been in our new home in Virginia for only 5 days, I already noticed a few money related impacts the move had on us.
The move was mainly because of the relocation of my wife’s job at her employer’s request. But she didn’t get any adjustment of her salary. Of course, in this [...]
Tips for Embracing Green Frugality
There are many different reasons that people opt to live a frugal lifestyle. The main reason, of course, is that they wish to save money. However, people also adopt frugal lifestyles because they wish to reduce waste, live more simply and pursue higher goals than consumerism (such as living a creative life or engaging in [...]
ServiceLive.com: Name Your Price and Get Repair Jobs Done
If you have a home improvement job that you are not able to do yourself, or need a fix of your car, what would you do? I would have to go through my local listings such as Yellow Page to find a qualified contractor, like I recently did when replacing our oil furnace. I guess [...]
Shop for an Oil Furnace
When we bought our house five years ago, we replaced the refrigerator, the stove, and the dishwasher. The water heater and air conditioner were relatively new, so we left them as were. The only item that should have been replaced at that time but we didn’t was the furnace. From the outside, the furnace looked [...]
Got Flu Symptoms? Google Flu Trends Help You See Flu Activities This Season
When you show any symptom that you may catch a flu, do yo go online to search flu-related terms, such flu symptoms, flue shots, flue vaccines, or flu activities in your area?
If you do (apparently many do), then the terms you searched help Google makes its own Flu Trends, which Google claims can “estimate flu [...]
First Snow of the Season
It’s not even November yet, but we already have our first snow of the season! I don’t remember when we had the first snow last, but sure not this early.
I am staying at home today with the kids to help them recover from the heavy jet lag. It’s so cold both outside and inside the [...]
Avoid These Unhealthy Kid Foods
Our 3-year old daughter just loves the Fruit by the Foot snack we bought her at Costco. It’s the kind of happy food that she wants to have coming back from school, before going out for a walk, or every time we take her to the playground or out for a trip. The reason the [...]
