Posted August 10, 2008 - 16:04 by Jason White
Frugal Living, Lifestyle
Ah, Friday nights. A time when we can relax and unwind without worry of going to work the next day (or the next). You walk in the door from work ready to kick off your shoes and enjoy a quiet dinner at home when the kids meet you ready to go out and have some fun! Besides being tired from the long week at work there is this other little problem with your entertainment budget envelope--it's empty. Here are a few ways our family has fun on the cheap spending a Friday night at home.
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Posted July 28, 2008 - 11:09 by Lynn Truong
Art and Leisure
This will the be first in our new series of open group writes. It's a chance to showcase great bloggers in the Wise Bread community and provide more resources for our readers. To participate, post an article on the designated topic and send us your link. We'll post an article with links to all qualified articles in a few weeks.
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Posted January 28, 2008 - 16:52 by Xin Lu
Frugal Living, DIY, Art and Leisure, Health and Beauty
Origami is a Japanese word that means "fold paper", and it is a very popular pastime around the world. I enjoy origami because it is a very cheap hobby that requires only your hands and paper. I like to reuse magazine paper and left over wrapping paper to make my projects, but origami techniques can be applied to anything that is foldable to create amazing results. Here are some fun and frugal ideas for using origami in your life that goes beyond folding a simple crane!
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What can a dollar buy you these days? Certainly not a gallon of gas, which it could have done 6 years ago. Anyway, this idea actually came out of a lunchtime chat with some friends. I’m a sucker for writing lists and I wondered how many different uses I could find for your humble $1 bill. Some are fun, some are silly, some may actually be useful. The list took me a whole week to compile. Enjoy.
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So, I can think of a few ways to turn a $1 into a $100 bill in a few minutes.
One would be to back a winning horse that has ridiculous odds. Another is to steal it. You could always ask your kind folks or other relatives for the money. Or perhaps pull a con or scam on some unwitting passers by.
But this way seems the easiest. If only I knew how he did it.
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None of these will make you independently wealthy or even allow you to quit your day job (unless you get a serious dose of luck along with your ingenuity), but they just might let you get enough cash to fund something special.
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Hey, it's Friday. I thought I'd post this one to give you all a chuckle into the weekend. And I seriously want one of these. Not the paperclip, the packaging. How cool is this? Ahh, MacGyver...the things that guy could do with chewing gum and string would make James Bond feel inadequate. Happy Friday folks.
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