The latest Festival of Frugality is up at Gather Little by Little. It includes my post on Frugality and Location. A couple other posts I like are “10 Surprising Things You Can Turn Into ... 5 Freebie Websites” from FIRE Finance. There are many other good posts so be sure to check out the entire Festival of Frugality for yourself. Related Posts:Festival of Frugality #72 Is UpFestival ...

... Hits 52-Week High! We just thought that deserved announcing. Now, on to frugality! America's favorite thing! The WSJ tells us ... paper or dog food in anything less than a 50-pound pallet, for frugality's sake, I will smack myself right across the face and look around for the god damn Candid Camera. It simply is not happening, friends. Frugality means saving money, and saving money means ...

... -fix extreme measures that... like a crash diet... can't be lived with for very long. Extreme frugality sets up feelings of deprivation that almost always lead to bouts of spending... the money that you gave up ... square one. To me, that yo-yo cycle of deprivation/splurging, deprivation/splurging is playing at frugality, not living it. Oddly, finding a level of frugality you CAN live with for the ...

... extreme? Isn’t that like ice cream being too smooth and creamy? My frugality has been mostly well received, but there are those who complain that I’ve gone over the edge. This bothers me not one ... venti hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha! An example of the degree to which I’m willing to go in the name of frugality happened just today. I was helping my mother clean out two of ...

... and to mingle with people. A lot of the ideas I got from learning about frugality I learned partially from my stay in Okinawa, Japan and from ... .e. video games, wastefulness, and textbooks) And this is when I came out with the golden frugality rule. Pick one luxury and budget accordingly. ... month and eat out less. So when I called my blog, Food, Finance, Frugality I meant "food" is 9 times ...

... the upcoming week, I’ll be posting a series of articles on the ethics of frugality. How far can you take things without crossing an ethical line or diving into seriously socially ... I found that the information was accurate and useful. This leads to a bigger question about frugality: when is it okay to sample content without buying? Take, for example, music. Some people find it completely ...