Meal planning is often touted as being the number one way to save money. Make too many meal planning mistakes and not only will it cost you money, you’ll give up on planning your meals. And I don’t want that because trust me, you can save a lot of money when you know how to meal […]
Basic Frugality: How To Reset Your Frugal Life
You might consider me to be a pro at being frugal but I still find it helpful to revisit basic frugality every so often. Because although I’ve been frugal for a long time it is just so easy to slip back into bad habits isn’t it? Sometimes life just gets busy and complicated and things […]
9 Tiny Frugal Ideas To Save Money Every Day
Being frugal is not just about reducing big bills, it’s about the small frugal ideas that you can do every day to save money. Tiny frugal habits that add up to a whole frugal life, one where you do things just a little bit differently than others. Many of us start out being frugal because […]
35 Of The Best Cheap Foods To Buy When You’re Broke
What is the best cheap food to buy when broke? You have so little money but you’ve still got to feed you and your family so you need a lot of food for cheap as possible. Free would be great but not usually possible! When you are broke you need to buy food as cheaply […]
67 Cheap And Easy Savory Snacks To Make At Home
I love savory snacks, for when I’m needing a little pick me up but it’s not yet time for something sweet. Now you could say any time is sweet time, but I try to be good for the majority of each day. Which means sweet things are reserved for either after dinner or the weekend. […]
10 Secrets To Lasting Frugal Success
What is about frugal people that means they always seem to stay the course? What are the frugal secrets they keep to themselves that they use to stay frugal and love their lives? I mean, when you talk to people they make it sound so easy. Just spend less than you earn and save the […]
11 Things Frugal People Just Do Not Do
Frugal people don’t do certain things for a reason. For the benefit that not doing brings to them. I absolutely love being frugal. I love the freedom that it has brought me. I have no mortgage, I have money in the bank and I am not shackled to a job until I am 68. How […]
53 Old Fashioned Frugal Living Tips For Your Modern Life
I have no doubt you have been told before that “in the olden days” people had to make do and do without. And if it was your thrifty Grandma talking I bet she talked about old fashioned frugal living, the way it had to be. It had to be because in those days you didn’t […]
My Top 10 Ideas For The Best Frugal Life
Do you ever get to the point where you do things on autopilot, without thinking? That’s me and frugal life and I love it. I’ve been frugal for such a long time that the things I do seem totally normal to me. What I often forget is that they are not always normal to other […]
Frugal Living For Beginners: How To Get Started
Being a beginner at anything new can seem daunting, even simple frugal living for beginners will seem hard and possibly very different from what you are used to. I say ‘seem hard’ because it’s not really, not once you know how and that is exactly what you and I are talking about. How you can […]