Frugal Tips

There would certainly be many different reasons as to why you would want to get a lump sum money for the structured settlements that you have. You may wish to have the cash in order to pay for your health and medical bills, or perhaps you may want it so you would be able to [...]

Gardening is a, “Frugal Approved,” activity! If you find yourself with a bit of extra space in your backyard, a garden is an excellent way to fill it. You may end up with a great hobby, and produce delicious food from your own backyard. If you’re a fan of fresh cooking and in particular, great [...]

I’ve talked about the solar panels in a couple of my previous posts, and I never got around to talking about the wind turbine. The reason is that the wind turbine is a totally different entity – in approach, practicality, and difficulty – when compared to the solar panel. So before you jump into the [...]

Weddings are some of the grandest occasions out there. It is the time when the love between two people is at its peak, and they decide to hold a big ceremony for it. With that said, a wedding is almost always an extravagant affair. This means that you will be spending quite a bit of [...]

The fact that we are paying for a lot of things means that we have a lot of things to start being frugal with. For instance, if you are smoking two packs a day, you can always cut that down to one – although quitting altogether is much better. Vices aside, three of the most [...]

If you live in an apartment or a studio, where you don’t have any space for a real garden, then a mini garden is for you. What probably comes to your mind is why you would want one anyway. Well, mini gardens can serve two main purposes. First, it serves as an ornamental earthly piece [...]

exceptions.   There are two types of people when it comes to free food. For this, let’s take the example of two guys walking into a store – no, this isn’t a bar joke. There’s a little booth that offers free hotdog samples. The attendant offers both men. One guy takes the sample while the [...]

In whatever aspect of life, timing is essential. For instance, if you want to get into frugal living, you have to set a good timeframe for when you reap the rewards. It can be short term, such as not buying lunch at work so you can throw a banquet for your daughter’s debutante party. It [...]

Personally, I’m the type of person where I don’t really care how much money I make or how lacking I am in terms of luxuries, as long as I can sleep at night on a full stomach. However, there are times when this ideal is just inappropriate. For one, I have a family, and I [...]

Frugality is a lifestyle; an uncommon and misunderstood one, and as we all know, humans fear what they do not understand. Make no mistake, when you come out in the open and tell everyone that you’re starting to observe the frugal life, some will pat you in the back while others will look at you [...]

“Elementary, my dear”, as Sherlock would always say, and to heed those words would prove really useful when talking about living frugally. One of the things that we learned in elementary was the basic needs of man. There are three – food, clothing, and shelter. Whether you are going for extreme or moderate frugality, you [...]

I’ve posted a few posts about free MMORPGs a while back, and I feel like it’s time to feed you a little news about the new and/or upcoming ones. Why games? Well nobody said frugal living meant you had to live like a hermit. We all need a little entertainment, and frugality is about finding [...]

Frugality is something that is really easy to get into as long as you have a good reason why you should do so, and you are prepared to make a few sacrifices in your daily routine. It’s all a loop, really, since your reason to live a frugal life is what should keep you living [...]

A frugal shopper is usually described as those who buy only what they need and never what they want. Of course, that’s not true. A frugal shopper buys what he needs but also buys what he wants – albeit he does so less frequently than others. Frugality is not about being an elitist and only [...]

I’ve mentioned getting a bigger freezer for frugal cooking quite a ton of times in my posts, and I usually say that it is for storing a lot of food that you buy wholesale. This is for two purposes – to reduce the frequency of trips to the grocery and for you to be able [...]

I’m going to sound like a broken record here, but frugality has a lot in common with going green; perhaps not in principles, but in practice. Frugality’s main objective is for its practitioner to live with minimal income through minimal expenses, but a good practitioner of frugality does so not at the expense of health. [...]

This article is called how to cut your own hair for men. It’s not called, how to recreate every style known to man and woman. The main focus here is more to inspire you to take the plunge rather than provide comprehensive details to cover all styling angles.  So without much further ado, let’s hop [...]

Mother’s Day may be over by the time some may read this post, but this can still come in handy for Father’s Day. I know it is a little too far away, but it’s better to be prepared. In both occasions, you have to remember one thing – big things come in small packages. To [...]

Frugal living and green living have a lot in common, and it is easy to take steps in “going green” to be more of a cheapskate than you already are. However, the devil is always in the details, and when you get carried away with going green, you may find yourself spending more than what [...]

Stand up comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham made a little point about Americans. He said that his teenage daughter, who was learning how to drive, didn’t know how to put gas in. When it came to paying for the gas, however, she was quick in swiping the credit card. While this is more of a [...]

In one of my previous posts, I outlined some of the things you’ll need to build a PC that’s just perfect for you. No computers built out of alien technology, just the right one that can cater to your needs; whether gaming or otherwise. This makes your PC cheap, but still kicking. First, let’s recap [...]

There are a lot of easy ways to save money, and most of them are right under our noses. Some of them aren’t that hard to do, but we find ourselves unwilling to do them because we’ve gotten used to certain luxuries. To counter this, you need to just reduce and not remove.   Learn [...]

Desktop computers usually have a year or two – three at maximum – before they go obsolete. This is mostly due to the video game industry, which pushes the limits of current hardware, and the hardware manufacturers pushing themselves to develop more powerful ones. While computer’s two to three year lifespan is a fact, it [...]

There are a lot of free massively multiplayer role playing games, and most of them take after the ones that aren’t. This makes it easy for those who live frugally to still play the kind of game they want without paying for a subscription fee.   Now, there aren’t a lot of articles cater to [...]

Part of being frugal is to try to get something for free as much as possible. While this won’t work as well in our daily lives, it works wonderfully in gaming. Most massively multi player online role playing games, or MMORPGs, require subscriptions. There are also those that do not, called “F2P” (standing for “free to play”). [...]

Nobody said frugal living is supposed to deprive you of anything you already have; you just need to cut down on some aspects. Since I’m noticing a trend in the video game industry, I feel like I need to write this here.   Video games have come a long way. From the simple Pong to [...]

While frugal living is never directly tied to living an eco-friendly life, you’ll always find yourself going green if you want to save some cash. So not only will you be saving a lot of money, you get to help save the planet as well regardless of whether or not you care for it; or [...]

There are two types of people that go on trips. There are those that just want to get there as soon as possible, and then deal with the headache borne out of wondering where their money went. There are also those that induce their own headaches way before departing, and go on their trip and [...]

There are tons of articles, blogs, and eBooks about frugal living but you have to admit they are oftentimes not as detailed as you want them to be. So to ease up on that a little bit, here are a few don’ts of frugal living so as for you to differentiate what you can do [...]

On the topic of thrifty living, do you remember being a kid, always being told by our parents that money doesn’t grow on trees. Whether you loved or hated those words, you have to admit that we would be doing much better these days if we heeded them. These days, most of us are being [...]

Traveling on a budget can be hard, but it’s all about prioritization. You simply have to choose where your money goes, and make sure that it is money well spent. Here are three things you might want to consider if you want to travel on a budget. Flights Switching planes is not a bad thing. [...]

You may see it all over the net – some people are simply blessed to be able to travel anywhere they want. However, most – if not all – of these people simply know when to grab the best deals. These skills aren’t learned overnight, nor are these deals easy to come by. All you [...]

We all have the tendency to buy out of impulse, especially when we have a small budget. Living like this, contrary to popular belief, this isn’t a bad thing. It is simply nicer to have more of that “little bit of cash to spare”, and you can certainly do so by knowing how to budget [...]

It’s the season of love again, and if you’re involved with anyone but maybe short on dough (who isn’t right!) you might be looking for some frugal Valentine ideas and that’s what this page is all about. Now if you’re better half is what you’d call “high maintenance,” then perhaps you’d be better off sticking [...]

Once the screw is out, you’ll be able to separate the two halves. The top half will slide back and the lower half slides forward. Be gentle though, the patient will thank you. The inside was bit cleaner than I was expecting for three years worth of dirt but what you can’t see is the [...]

The Wacom Intuos 3 Mouse sucks, so they say. A quick look over of Amazon reviews would have you believe that this mouse is a light-weight in terms of serious use. As an owner and daily user of the Wacom mouse for the last three years, I’ve been quite satisfied with it’s durability. So if [...]

What would you do if you won the lottery? Would you live an extravagant lifestyle or just pocket the money and go on with life? Getting a lot of money like that, isn’t a guarantee to spend the rest of your days living, “high on the hog,” as my grandma likes to put it. All [...]

Looking for frugal ideas? Well then hopefully this page will be pay dirt for you cause that’s what’s here. To get started, there’s a bit of a misconception of what frugality actually is. Rather than do the cliche’ dictionary definition, I’ll give you the thesaurus entry for frugal: Entry Word: frugal Function: adjective Meaning: careful [...]