Posted September 21, 2009 - 06:00 by Vincent Scordo
My immigrant parents have taught me many lessons about saving money and leading a high quality life via being practical, but the following ten lessons were most influential in shaping how I lead my life as a thirty-something today. Some of the lessons are what would be described as old school and some may be overly simplistic, but the hard truth is that each lesson works!
Posted September 21, 2009 - 05:00 by Nora Dunn
Check out your thesaurus, and you may discover that “frugal” and “miserly” share many of the same words as their cousins. Let this be our warning; take frugal too far, and we can become miserly before we even know what hit us. This article explores my own personal struggle between spending and saving – while living on the road. And I need your help!
Posted September 9, 2009 - 08:00 by Xin Lu
In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue is a book that explores the morality and practicality of being frugal from the beginnings of America to 2009. The author Lauren Weber identifies herself as a cheapskate who learned her behaviors from her extremely cheap economist father. Here are some strange and surprising highlights from the book.
Posted September 8, 2009 - 11:00 by Linsey Knerl
When it comes time for you to think about getting your seasonal flu shot, there are a few ways to go about getting one – each one with a different price tag. Before you run out and schedule that doctor’s appointment, check out the many ways to snag a vaccine, for less than you’d expect.
Posted August 25, 2009 - 12:02 by Philip Brewer
The web is full of advice for starving writers. And why not? Any writer has heard the advice "Write what you know," and one thing many writers know is about being a starving writer. Oddly, most of their advice is on writing. A couple of truly great writers, though, have left us advice on the much more important topic of not starving.
Posted August 24, 2009 - 08:46 by WC Porter
Most people think saving money has to be fun and exciting in order to work. Not so. I took The Boring Challenge and saved over $2,000. How much money will you save?
Posted August 18, 2009 - 05:00 by Philip Brewer
Why would someone choose to have less than they could? Lots of reasons. There are as many ways to live large as there are people who refuse to think small. Over the time I've been writing for Wise Bread, I've expanded my list of reasons by quite a bit.
Posted August 14, 2009 - 12:00 by Paul Michael
They say a change is as good as a rest. Well, they're right. My wife and I have had the same living room layout since we moved into our home. As our home is small, we just assumed it was the best arrangement for the space we had to work with. Then, one night as I steam-cleaned the carpets, my wife had a moment of inspiration that made all the difference.
Posted August 4, 2009 - 10:00 by Linsey Knerl
I’m a work-at-home, home-educating, mom of 4 little ones. I can rarely find time to sweep and scrub, much less create 30 days’ worth of frozen meals on my days off. Here is how I’ve achieved basically the same results as a traditional batch cooking plan, with the spare 30-minutes to an hour I have each day.
Posted July 30, 2009 - 04:00 by Silicon Valley Blogger
We all have our own ways of handling our finances -- and that's why it's called "personal" finance. What works for one person may not necessarily work for someone else, and this is why I find it highly interesting when people get into debates over the different ways to manage money or handle debt. Is there really a right way and a wrong way to do things?
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