by Brian Carr on August 12, 2011
Share Apparently lots of people still don’t trust banks and financial institutions nearly three years after the financial crisis, which, to be perfectly honest, leaves me shaking my head. In an article entitled “Stashing Cash in Tampon Boxes – And Other Sneaky Spots” published on CNNMoney, author Blake Ellis writes about all the weird places [...]
by Brian Carr on August 11, 2011
Share Penny wise and pound foolish sounds like a funny saying, but it’s actually a pretty important concept when it comes to living a frugal life. For those of you who don’t know what the phrase means, it more or less means you sweat the small costs so much that you either end up incurring [...]
by Brian Carr on August 9, 2011
Share It’s no secret that saving money requires some degree of sacrifice and, many times, sacrifice is far from fun. That being said, living a frugal lifestyle doesn’t have to be synonymous with living a dull lifestyle. If you can spice up the ways you save money and take a different approach to frugality, you [...]
by Brian Carr on August 8, 2011
Share This morning I read a great post on Get Rich Slowly that posed a very interesting question: why pay for something if we could otherwise do or get it for free? In the article entitled “Paying for What you Could Get Free,” April Dykman writes why she chooses to pay someone – whether it’s Italian classes, [...]