Improve your mind and save money: read more!

February 18, 2010

The benefits of reading
There’s nothing quite like snuggling up with a good book. And there’s a certain satisfaction from finding a new post by your favorite blogger. But it gets even better when you realize that all that reading will improve both your mind and your pocketbook.
Improve your mind. When reading, you have access to a wide [...]

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Getting Your Entertainment Fix for Cheap

February 17, 2010

This post is by Ronnie, screenwriter for The Frugality Game. Let him know what you think in the comments!
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of having to spend the entirety of my monthly entertainment budget on a single trip to the movie theatre, or a twenty minute stay in the CD aisle.
The prices [...]

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Money-Saving Magazine Ideas

February 16, 2010

Print media is a dying breed. It’s an unfortunate end to an industry that has been so strong for so long, but with the twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week news cycles on the internet, the demise of the medium is no longer a question of “if”, but a question of “when”. Fortunately [...]

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Saving Cash on Coffee

February 12, 2010

Have you played The Frugality Game today?
Mmmm….smell that ? That’s the sweet aroma of coffee being slowly roasted. It’s like heaven in fragrance form. You know what isn’t heavenly? The cost of café these days….five dollars for a latte? You’re kidding! There’s more foam in that drink than actual liquid! The coffee biz is big, [...]

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Vacations for the Frugal-Minded

February 11, 2010

We all need a break from the grind of daily life now and then. Stress can build up, work can become a bit too much and we just need to have a vacation. Sometimes, though, just the prospect of planning out that vacation and the effort and money that goes towards it can be just [...]

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How a small change in your spending could make you a millionaire

February 10, 2010

Here a little, there a little–you might not think those daily spending choices make much of a difference. And, individually, they probably don’t. But what happens when you put them all together?
Consider this: when walking across the room, you probably don’t worry much about your exact direction. A foot to the left or a foot [...]

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Ideas for a Frugal Valentine’s Day

February 9, 2010

It’s mid-February once again, and you know what that means! Bells on a hill, birds in the sky, and love all around. Oh! And Valentine’s Day is coming up, too! As we are all aware, when we have an amour to call our own, the day of celebration for Saint Valentine can become very costly, [...]

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Free Breakfast? It’s true!

February 7, 2010

It turns out that there is such a thing as a free meal. Following the success of last year’s event, Denny’s is again offering a free “Grand Slam” breakfast to anyone in the United States. They’ll announce the event during the Super Bowl.
Expect it to be crowded, though: last year about two million people took them [...]

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Super Ideas for a Super Bowl Party

February 6, 2010

Guess what, everybody? Super Bowl Sunday is approaching faster that a bullet pass from Peyton Manning out of the Shotgun formation. Yes, the biggest party day of the year for a great deal of Americans is here once again, and if you’re hosting this year, that probably means that food and refreshments are on you [...]

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Easy Ideas for Inexpensive Edibles

February 5, 2010

Hey, everyone! It’s Fern. I was at the grocery store the other day picking up a few things (Frank can’t live without his Moon Pies), when a light bulb flickered on above my head. I realized that the grocery store is ground zero in the battle to save money, and I want to give you [...]

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