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Frugal Living: The Where, Why and How of Couponing 2008-07-24 11:22:00 Ok, so I've been hearing a lot of methods about couponing: where to get them, when to cut them, how to store them, etc. Now for little, old me to weigh in (**announcer voice: 'at 105lbs...Alison 'The Femme' Frugal
!! crowd: cheers**).
The Where: Everywhere--duh! I cannot tell you how many deals I would have missed out on if I had not been cutting coupons from the Smart Source and Red Plum circular Read more:Living
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Free Sample Roundup, Coupons, Amazon, and a new Frugal Service! 2008-07-23 18:47:00 Free Sample
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Free sample of MultiGrain Cheerios from Walmart here. This isn't new, but a re-stock and I was able to sign up again.
Free Kotex sample courtesy of Sam's Club here.
Free sample of Oatmeal Crisp cereal from Walmart here.
Free sample of Stayfree products here. This is another one that isn't new, but I was able to sign up again.
Free sample of Health ToGo drink mixes here.
Fr Read more:Frugal
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, Amazon
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Sample Roundup and Some Great Frugal Articles 2008-07-22 11:34:00 Free Sample
s!Free sample of GLAD ForceFlex here
Free Obama '08 sticker for those inclined here
Free Obama button here
Free sample of Tide TotalCare here
Free sample of Kotex here from WalMart
Get a coupon booklet worth $27 here
Get a free sample of BeneFiber here from WalMart
Free sample of Mosturizing Renewal Creme here
Get an Orajel coupon here
Free sample of Neutrel Heartburn Relief bar he Read more:Frugal
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The Benefits of Frugal Living 2008-07-19 15:46:00 Katharine here. Just wanted to introduce our first guest poster, Miranda from DestroyDebt.com! One of the personal finance trends gaining popularity right now (especially with the current economy) is frugal living. Frugal
living is a lifestyle in which you spend much less than you earn, and take steps to avoid excessive consumerism. And, increasingly, frugal living is becoming tied to g Read more:Living
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Frugal Cooking: Practicing What We Preach 2008-07-16 16:47:00 Part of what we've been addressing in this blog is how going green and being frugal can go together. Its a great experiment that, I think, so many people are getting interested in because of the environment and the economy. Not to mention the average person's hectic life, where its hard enough to make time to eat food, let alone make it. So really, what we are suggesting is a win-win: cook once, e Read more:Frugal
More Technical Difficulties 2008-07-16 11:36:00 Unfortunately, my internet is down again. Apparently it is not an outage this time, but a problem with my connection. I should be up and running again tomorrow, but may not post again until Friday.Stay frugal!~Katharine Read more:Technical
Frugal Shopping: Shaws and Stop & Shop 2008-07-15 10:12:00 Shaws has Rice-a-roni and Pasta-roni on sale this week for $1 a box. There is a printable at Smartsource. When I clicked on the food category, it was at the bottom of the first page. Since Shaws doubles your $.50 off coupon, you get them free! Stop and Shop also has Rice-a-roni on sale for $1 a box this week. Does anyone know if they double?
Other good deals are Wish Read more:Frugal
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More Freebies 2008-07-14 16:49:00
Free sample of Degree for Men deodorant here. Click on the Hand, enter your zip code, hit submit, and then click 'get a free sample.'
Free sample of Clorox 2 Color safe bleach here.
Free sample of Zim's Freeze It - Advanced Therapy Pain Relief Gel here.
Free CFL bulb here.
Cheerios is offering a reminder to get a free box of Cheerios here.
~Katharine Read more:Freebies
Freebies are the most Frugal! 2008-07-14 10:31:00 I talked about updating with freebies daily last week, and then I didn't sign up for any for a few days. Here's what I signed up for this morning:
Free Bath and Body Sample here.
Rumor has it that if you sign up for the Tazo mailing list, they send you free samples of tea. Go here and click on Be Enlightened.
Get a free sample of Playtex Sport, OB Tampons, Kotex sample pack, and Read more:Frugal
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Frugal Habits: Get the most for your money! 2008-07-14 09:50:00 Provident Smart Checking promises a 5.01% APR interest rate (up to $25,000) on their free checking account!
This seems like a great rate, and you have to meet 3 simple requirements to get it.
Make 10 POS transactions with your Visa Debit card per statement period. These are the signature based transactions
Receive one Direct Deposit or one automatic ACH debit per statement period Read more:Frugal
Frugal Shopping: "New" to Me! 2008-07-12 17:09:00 I thought this post might be a good time to bring up a favorite past-time shared by my parents and myself: giving a new home to previously loved treasures! We find them everywhere, from the street to tag-sales, flea-markets, and auctions. Originally, my mom started going to auctions because she is an art collector, but then my dad and I got on-board, especially with tag-sale-ing.I've learned a lot Read more:Frugal
, Shopping
Frugal Shopping: The Farmers Market and Recent Freebies 2008-07-11 20:41:00 Today I went to Haymarket. For those of you not from Boston, it is an insane Farmer's market that runs Friday and Saturday, all year round, rain or shine. My haul today was along the lines of the following:3 leeks for $1 - I love leeks. I made an Asparagus leek risotto before, and I think it would work without the asparagus. I've also checked out A Year of Crockpotting, and it looks like its n Read more:Frugal
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Frugal Idea: Complain! 2008-07-11 08:33:00 No Credit Needed just posted about his lack of internet at home. This reminded me about what happened to me last week. In an example of supremely bad timing, my internet went down for 3 days due to 'weather-related issues' when Alison and her houseguest... were MY houseguests. When it went back up, I called the customer service line, and politely asked for a percentage of my mont Read more:Frugal
Frugal Failures: Shopping and Dining 2008-07-11 08:25:00 Hello, everyone! So this is more of a post about frugal failures, unfortunately. Well, some successes, but in general, I think I got out of practice taking that vacation, haha.
So on Monday, I did a shortened version of my shopping rounds: Walmart, Stop and Shop, and Shoprite. Walmart was kind of a disappointment--the result was one tube of Colgate ($1-$1off coupon from P&G 6/29=free) and one Read more:Frugal
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Frugal Update: Where was I last week? 2008-07-10 12:03:00 Well, after such a long hiatus I've been dying to get my life back and get a chance to do an update! As Kathy mentioned in one of her previous posts, I spent a little more than half a week as her houseguest. Definitely the best frugal choice, as she was such a lovely, wonderful friend that she did not ask for any compensation from me and my friend from Toronto who also stayed with her! We enjoyed Read more:Frugal
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Soliciting Feedback 2008-07-08 10:46:00 In the little less than a month since we have started doing this, we have received almost 200 visitors. To be honest, a fair amount of these are probably myself logging on from different machines, and my family and friends, as I have shamelessly spammed them with the link to this blog. Today, I would like to talk to the rest of you.I've toyed with the idea of doing a post of all the freebies I'v Read more:Feedback
The Carnival of Personal Finance and Technical Difficulties 2008-07-02 12:42:00 We were listed over at the Carnival
of Personal
Finance! Take a moment to check it out. There are some great entries over there this week.Unfortunately, my internet is down, and Alison is currently my houseguest, so it does not look like there will be any more posts this week. Next week you can look forward to some great content though!~Katharine Read more:Technical
Frugal Learning: Languages 2008-06-26 10:56:00 Heres something that might be worth checking out. If you ever wanted to learn Japanese, Spanish, French, Hindi, German, or Mandarin Chinese - Check out LiveMocha.Found via this slickdeals thread, where it is immensely popular. I am checking it out and will be taking courses to improve my Japanese skills. Please do let me know if you use or sign up for LiveMocha!In other news, I got my free samp Read more:Frugal
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Alison's Frugal Food: Marinara Sauce 2008-06-25 08:32:00 I'm back! Well, where did I go? No where too far, but I thought I would give an update about the happenings of the week...I actually had a great experience doing some frugal cooking this week! I've accumulated a nice stash of Muir Glen organic tomato products (paste, sauce, and whole tomatoes) so the plan was to create a simple, but delicious, marinara sauce. Unfortunately, I did not take pictures Read more:Frugal
, Alison
Favorite Frugal Recipes 2008-06-24 13:09:00 I make no secret of it, though you may not know, but I love food! I like expensive food, I like cheap food, I like fancy cuisine, and I like food that people turn their nose up at! Do you have a favorite frugal recipe? Most of the recipes we make at my apartment are very frugal, or close to free! My roommate and myself spend less than $30 a week on groceries, combined! Now, I know there are many b Read more:Frugal
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Learning to manage my finances the frugal way 2008-06-23 09:22:00 We decided to start this blog because of our recent interest in personal finance and frugality. I read a lot of blogs. To keep track of them all I use Google's RSS Reader solution - Google Reader.Don't know what RSS( is? RSS stands for Really Simple Sindication, and it is a type of web feed. Atom is another type of web feed, and the one used by Blogger. Feeds are methods of distributing content. I Read more:Learning
, finances
Weekly Spending and the Deal Trifecta 2008-06-22 18:47:00 Well, after my hiatus, I am re-energized and ready to tell you all about this past week's frugal and green adventures! It has been a long week, so I'll start out by going back to the goals I set last week.Financially, it was a pretty heavy week. Father's Day was my biggest expense--I took my dad to a flea market, which he loved, and spent $20 on gas, $4 on admission for both of us, and bought a bo Read more:Weekly
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My Frugal Grocery Haul 2008-06-21 21:25:00 This week at Shaws, their pasta is on sale for 2 for $1! This is a great deal, as their pasta is usually 10 for $1, and it isn't uncommon to see a pound of pasta run more than $1 a box lately. I did some couponing at Stop and Shop, which was great fun, but showed me that my envelope system for storing coupons isn't quite right yet. Well, it wasn't quite right, and now its a mess! I had a printable Read more:Frugal
, Grocery
Tracking my spending and protecting my investments 2008-06-17 09:11:00 So this is goal week--essentially a huge couple of objectives including financial and health. The financial is actually something thought up by Katharine and I'm jumping on the band wagon. I'm going to be keeping track of everything I spend, every little penny (because sometimes, yes, I do spend pennies). I'll probably refine my system as I go, make up some catagories, etc. and hopefully come up w Read more:Tracking
The 3 R's of being Frugal and Green - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle 2008-06-16 09:13:00 Hi again!Thinking about Alison's post earlier (here), being frugal and green is definitely not easy. That being said, its not too hard, if you are willing to get creative!The #1 rule of being green is Reduce, Reuse
and Recycle
. Come to think about it, this is the number one rule of frugality too!Reduce - From a green perspective, this means reduce your consumption... Use only what you need, and no Read more:Frugal
, Green
Homemade goodies--a double money-saver! 2008-08-05 09:28:00 Alright--I'll admit it: the homemade spaghetti sauce totally did not deserve two posts...I'm sure anyone who makes their own sauce already as well as those who may have tried to gather some free ingredients must have been thinking "Come ON, already"
But, in case it hasn't come across yet, I love being in the kitchen. As weird as it might sound to those of you who know me, I LOVE food! I love baki Read more:double
Frugal Lessons: Grocery Shopping 2008-08-01 10:37:00 I went to the store last night, because I had about 2000 coupons which were going to expire... And I learned a hard lesson: restraint. It was difficult for me to stick to the on sale and have a coupon plan I've been using lately, especially since I hadn't shopped in a few weeks. In fact, I pretty much destroyed it completely... FAIL
I bought a couple things that were on sale, an Read more:Frugal
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Frugal Living in the Pioneer Valley (Part II) 2008-07-29 10:15:00 Alright, so in the first part I fed you, exhausted you, and probably got you drunk. This time around I'm going to hit on a few more ::ahem:: cultured and low-key options, which I'm sure will be much appreciated as you deal with any food-induced/head-banging headache that I may or may not be partially responsible for.Scenery / OutdoorsyOnce again, let's start at my Alma Mater: Smith College. For th Read more:Frugal
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Frugal Living in the Pioneer Valley (Part I) 2008-07-28 08:40:00 Kathy asked me to do a couple of articles on the topics of being frugal and green while having fun in the various places that I've lived and we'll all expect her to repay the favor. As you may have noticed, I'm a graduate of Smith College and after spending 4 years in the Northampton area (including summers!), hopefully I'll be able to offer some tips that visitors or even residents will find usef Read more:Frugal
, Living
, Pioneer
, Valley
Frugal Fun in Toronto! 2008-07-25 19:02:00 Exciting news! On Thursday I will be leaving for Toronto
!! As you can tell from my use of exclamation marks, I am so very excited about this. However, I am also a little nervous. I'll be staying with a friend who is, let's say, a little more financially secure than I am and also a LOT less frugal. Needless to say, if anyone is from the Toronto area/familiar with it, I would love love love any sugg Read more:Frugal
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