While we can’t eliminate laundry from your list of necessary housework items, we can help you save money on laundry with these frugal laundry tips.

As frugal parents, we all want to get great kids’ clothes while spending less money. This store sales and clearance schedule below lists the best times and places to buy kids’ clothes for the best price. Planning ahead and buying kids’ clothes in advance is a thrifty way to get more for your money.

What most people don’t know is that annual fees on credit cards are negotiable. It is completely possible to eliminate annual fees…

 
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Unexpected Guests?  12 Mealtime Savers
From time to time situations arise in which you have unexpected guests for a meal at the last minute.  Perhaps extra kids were invited over for dinner after school or a visiting family accompanies you home for brunch after church.  Whatever the circumstances, it can be tricky to [...]

Say Goodbye to Cards and Hello to Gift Tags!
Large families mean a lot of birthdays, and a lot of birthdays mean a lot  of parties to attend.  Parties mean presents and cards.  A card to each person, and sometimes even a card on each gift for the same person, adds up to a lot of [...]

What I’m Willing to Give Up
Peer pressure can work for you in some cases.  I’m using the positive influence of my frugal peers to trim the fat in these lean economic times, and I’ll tell you why.
The recession is hitting many of us hard, some of us medium, and some of us not at all.  [...]

Slashing unnecessary expenses on necessary items like utilities is on on everyone’s mind.   Saving money may seem difficult when summer temperatures swell or winter chills have you cranking up the thermostat.   While we can’t eliminate our water bills or electric bills, there are lots of tips and tricks to keep the costs down.
13 Ways to [...]

Are Energy Vampire Taps Costing You Money?
Vampire taps are in all of our houses right now and chances are, they’re costing you  money.  Many electrical devices use energy in “standby mode” 24 hours a day, even when they’re not in use.  A little extra energy may not seem like a big deal at first thought.  [...]

Looking for even more savings in the kitchen department? Salt is so versatile and inexpensive that it may just be your answer. Did you know you can use salt to remove the acidity from your coffee before you brew it? Did you know that you could boil eggs in salt water to ease peeling [...]

My husband walked to work each day this week. 2.6 miles there, 2.6 miles back. And I forgot to mention, we live in Alaska. Yesterday it was minus 5° F!
This idea was born from our brainstorm of ways to cut down the fuel expense in our monthly budget. My husband comes home for lunch every day, [...]