Make what you can. Some people cut their milk ½ and ½ with powdered. (I do this only for baking—the family won’t drink it. Some make bread (though for $0.89 at the Win-Co, I can’t justify this). There are some things that can be made without a loss of quality, or even better than if [...]

Sorry for you non-cat owners. Today won’t be especially relevant. I’ve got to tell the cat owners out there about something I’m a big fan of. It’s a product called “Worlds Best Cat Litter” (yes, I just blogged my cat litter). The stuff is made of recycled corn cobs diced into tiny bits. It’s very [...]

Yeah, I really said that. Take a good hard look at everything you throw out for a week. Why are you throwing it away? It didn’t come into your house for free—have you used it to the full extent of its life? Can you re-use something one more time? Every day our daughter brings in [...]

Now that you’re acclimated to some extra frugal ideas, here’s something else to try out. Say no. Or even just think about it. What would happen if you say no? What’s the worst? What’s the best? Try “no, I’m not buying everyone a holiday present—we’ll do an exchange” or “no, we’re not going to eat [...]

That might just be the most outrageous title I’ve ever written for a blog post. The more outrageous thing is that it’s completly true. This is a trick we learned from our oldest daughter’s Girl Scouts Camp this summer. The kids were asked to bring a five-gallon-bucket with a lid to camp each day–with their [...]

I’ve been using Inksmile.com to buy toners for the laser printer that I use in my small business. Filling up all toners on my printer costs about $450 at Office Depot, so I’ve been searching for a better way. Inksmile.com is doing the trick and I ordered three $144 toners the other day for $87 [...]

I was braiding my ten year old daughter’s hair tonight and I asked her what event she’ll be running in Thursday’s track meet. She told me she’ll be running the 401K.

Dear Readers, Perhaps you’ve seen the annoying “powered by Google” ads running all over this site. The AdSense ads are an alternative way to get this blog to continue to pay for itself. However, it’s ugly, irritating and I wouldn’t endorse most of the products if my life depended on it. This blog is about [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of Mint.com. I’ve mentioned that so many times that last time I had to have other people do the mentioning for me. I like mint because it’s anonomyous and totally private. However, some people are socially-motivated to stay plugged in to a Web site. That’s totally [...]

Now that I’ve wasted a week thinking about this idea, I’m beginning to think it’s feasable. I’m going to post daily a *free* financial literacy resource that I’ve found on the Web. The topics will be grouped 4-5 days at a time focused on the following topics: Debt Budgeting Investing Saving Services Kids and finance [...]