Do you want to save money by making your own meals at home, but aren’t sure where to start? Let the blog Budget Bytes help you. It contains not only frugal but delicious recipes (including vegetarian ones) broken down by total cost and cost per serving, but a guide to stocking your pantry when you first live on your own or learn to cook.
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Ex-Merrill Lynch CEO: Whoops, I Should Have Gone To IKEA
By 9.19.09
Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain is famous for, among other things, spending $1.2 million to redecorate his office as the company was going down in flames. For some reason, Thain’s shopping spree of $87,000 area rugs, a $18,000 desk, and a $35,000 chest of drawers didn’t go over well.
Southwest Airlines Will Save $100,000 By Getting Rid Of Lemons
By 9.18.09
Limes are cheaper than lemons and passengers seem to prefer them — giving Southwest airlines an opportunity to drop the yellow menace and save $100,000.
Couple Attempts To Stretch Half A Year's Pay Into A Full Year
By 9.18.09
CNN profiles a young family living in a Chicago suburb who have decided to carry out an experiment in frugal living—they want to see if they can reduce their expenses enough to get by on about half of what they made before the wife and sole breadwinner was laid off earlier this summer.
PBR Sales, Prices, Up
By 9.17.09
With sales and prices up, the only redeeming quality left for PBR is if you perversely enjoy drinking a beer with zero finish. Please, nobody tell the tiny pants set that Miller High Life is 50 cents cheaper and tastes two dollars better. [NBCChicago] (Photo: Ingorrr)
Broke Consumers Are Filling Up Carts And Leaving Them
By 8.24.09
This is a depressing phenomenon, if it’s real. According to the Associated Press, consumers are ditching items before they buy them. They’ve always done this, of course, but now they are supposedly doing it more.
What's Your Favorite Recipe Site?
By 6.2.09
As numerous commenters on our “50 Restaurants Where Kids Eat Free Or Cheap” pointed out, it’s easier to get good food at a good price with a nice home-cooked meal with fresh ingredients. Then we have the perpetual dilemma, what to make, and how to make it?
50 Restaurants Where Kids Eat Free Or Cheap
By 6.1.09
With times calling for tighter wallets and tighter belts, FrugalLivingTv’s list of 50 restaurants where kids eat free or cheap is like manna from heaven.
Amazing Coupon Queen Saves 97% On Grocery Bill
By 5.1.09
Sure, I use coupons, and I’m decent at it, but for me watching this video of the “Coupon Queen” is like a little kid enrolled in her first karate class watching an expert ninja.
112 Ways To Save Money
By 4.13.09
You guys are some thrifty freakazoids. We asked you to submit your money-saving secrets and you dumped like 35 elephants on our heads in comments and emails. We’ve trimmed that down to 112 . Here they are! Enjoy your savings.
If You Save Too Much — You Might Regret It Later!
By 3.24.09
We’re always telling people to save their money — but that’s just because we’re overcompensating for a society that spends too much. It is possible to be too frugal and you risk regretting that you didn’t have a little more fun while you had the chance.
Share Your Money-Saving Secrets
By 3.23.09
What are your money-saving secrets? One Consumer Reports staffer recommends cutting open tubes of toothpaste to get at the last bit. I’ve heard that one before, but another new one was to “step on your toilet paper rolls.” That way it doesn’t dispense as fast thanks to its ovular shape and you save on sheets. I think you guys can top that and so does Consumer Reports, so submit your money-saving secrets in the comments or to tips@consumerist.com, subject line: “shhmoney.” Besides getting featured here, the best ones might end up in a future Consumer Reports magazine article! “No idea is too small, wacko, or miserly,” says the Consumer Reports editor-in-chief.
Martinis: Classy, Yet Thrifty!
By 3.6.09
Want more bang for your buck at the bar? Take a cue from James Bond and order a martini. Alcohol-to-price, it’s the best value out there. Gin, dirty, up, with olives for me, please. Mmmm. (Photo: boyghost)
Learn To Make Depression Era Recipes With 93-Year-Old Clara
By 2.23.09
Your Digital Camera In A Travel Soap Case
By 2.22.09
A hard plastic travel soap case makes it a snap to keep your digital camera safe from getting bonked around. If your camera is small enough, an Altoids tin works too. Spotted this in the March issue of Real Simple (which I found a copy of left on the train, so I get +5 frugality points).
