Pride is a funny thing. People often spend money to impress people they don’t even like, based on their pride. They want to feel superior in some way, but in the end, pride is about insecurity. When it comes to making returns at a store, there are some people whose pride won’t let them do […]
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Home Improvement Projects for a Faster Home Sale
Home sales are picking up in many parts of the country. Areas hit hard by the Great Recession of 2008 such as Arizona and Florida are doing particularly well. Nevertheless, even with buyer interest on the rise, it still helps to make some home improvements to make your house more attractive and sell your home […]
How to Use Coupons and Coupon Codes to Save Money
This is a guest post from Jon Lal, founder of coupons and cash back website BeFrugal.com. BeFrugal.com offers cash back for online shopping at 3,000+ online stores with a current average rate of 7%. Wouldn’t it be great to pay less than sticker price on everything you buy? You can do so by using printable […]
Pennywise and Pound-Foolish
There’s a tendency on the part of humans to think in terms of proportions. It’s easy, for example, to think you’re doing a great job saving $3 on a $8 package of paper towels — and then turn around and fail to save $300 on a $27,000 new car because “what the heck, if I’m […]
What Crazy Frugal Habits Do You Have?
Do you ever find yourself doing silly things that others might find crazy in the name of being frugal? I know I do and it’s usually not about money as much as it is just the satisfaction of the act. This morning, I experienced one of these as I was looking at the near empty […]