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Spend Nothing Month

Thanks to BlogHer, I just discovered Owlhaven, an amazing blog by a woman with 10 kids! 10! And I think I have trouble balancing my budget with just one mouth to feed (well, 3 if you count the cats, who do very much like being fed).

This month, she’s doing an experiment called 30 [...]

Britain returning to wartime frugality?

Over the weekend, I stumbled across this article:  Britain urging return to wartime food frugality.

There is growing concern that affordable quality food will become scarce, not due to war, but due to the rising costs of both food and energy.  Of course, this is a problem around the world, but until this article, I hadn’t [...]

What would you save?

It seems like there has been a lot of disaster and destruction in the news lately. Earthquakes, wildfires, flooding, tornadoes, and smaller scale events like the fire in Mapgirl’s neighborhood earlier this week.

Before I even begin talking about the subject, I want to reiterate Mapgirl’s statement that you need to make sure you are [...]

How frugal is too frugal?

Everyone has their limits of how far they will go in terms of frugality. Sometimes it’s just because we refuse to do something, sometimes it’s because we just don’t want to do something.

For example, we all hear about how much money we could all save if we bring our lunch every day. But if you’ve [...]

Can you spend irresponsibly if you’re rich?

I have a friend who occasionally comments about how things are expensive and how she is working to pay off her credit cards. This friend also has a tendency to drop $20 on “whatever” around five days a week. In my opinion (and the opinion of some of our other friends), this [...]