July 2009

Moment of Fame

July 27, 2009

This week I submitted posts to only two carnivals: Best of Money and Money Stories. Didn’t make it in to the elite ten at BoM, but Green Panda Treehouse kindly included “Other People’s Pets” in this week’s Money Stories Carnival. A bunch of good stories surfaced this week. Among them: • Free Money Finance’s story [...]

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Help!! Frugal trick creates big mess

July 27, 2009

Does anyone know how to get liquid Ivory dish detergent off the floor? If so, will you please give me a clue in the comments? To save on the wasteful amounts of detergent those squirt caps that come on detergent bottles dispense, I pour my detergent into a squirt bottle. One small squirt goes a [...]

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The Twilight Zone

July 27, 2009

Today we present another guest post by Stephen Taddie, managing partner of Stellar Capital Management, LLC, located in Phoenix Arizona. In this essay, a quarterly report to investors, Steve observes that although the economy appears, by some indicators, to be on the mend, we may be about to experience an inflationary experience, and he explains [...]

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Is a vegetable garden cost-effective?

July 26, 2009

Most frugalists and gardening enthusiasts seem to feel that growing vegetables in the backyard (or on your apartment balcony) is a good cost-saving strategy. But I wonder. After having tried to grow vegetables, with moderate success, for the past three years, I’m beginning to think the cost of preparing not-very-fertile soil (or of buying big [...]

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Check out Funny’s guest post at Frugal Being Green!

July 26, 2009

Proprietor Carrie at It’s Frugal Being Green kindly invited me to contribute a guest post, to help fill in while she’s out of town. So I’ve offered an update on the “food futures” project. It should go up tomorrow, July 27. Be sure to visit, and while you’re there, don’t fail to explore the entire [...]

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Easy pool-cleaning shortcut

July 25, 2009

If you have a pool, by now you’ve probably figured out why people who live in houses with pools say the next house won’t have one. Maintenance is a day-to-day work in progress. A large work in progress. A lot of work… In progress, always. One of the pool owner’s least favorite tasks is sweeping [...]

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