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New Money Saving Method – A Roommate!

I’ve been kind of out of the blogging world for the past week.  I had a big presentation to give for work (which went well, thank you very much) and I was working on cleaning my apartment.  Why?  Because I’ve decided to get a roommate!  Sort of, anyway.

I have a friend who has moved to [...]

Spare Change

Since changing the name of this blog, a number of people have stumbled across the site by searching for things such as “what to do with pennies” and “where can I deposit pennies?” (There are also some other… more interesting searches. People. Pennies belong in banks, in pockets, in drawers, in jars, [...]

How to make more money

(Apologizes to anyone getting this twice on the feed- upgrading WordPress caused a small hiccup and all my scheduled posts posted at once)

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of chatter about alternate income streams.  This is probably partly due to the current state of the economy, but I think people that read and write personal finance [...]

Snowflaking your life

If you’ve been reading finance blogs for a while, you know about the idea of debt snowflaking, and probably about its younger cousin, savings snowflaking. The theory behind the snowflaking method is that no amount is too small. Find a dollar on the floor? Put it towards your debt. Make $3 [...]

Couponing

When I lived in St. Louis, I was obsessive about coupon clipping. Mainly because I subscribed to the Sunday paper. But I quickly realized that while I was using the paper for coupons, I was never actually reading the paper, so it started to feel like a waste. The papers would start [...]