Dad, can I get a yearbook?, asked my son. I thought back to when I was a teenager. Buying yearbook was very little about the pictures that were inside, and more about getting your friends to sign it. It was a kind of status symbol to fill up as … [Read more...] about Are School Yearbooks a Waste Of Money?
I looked back as we left a popular local restaurant and saw chicken wings, most of a burger and two half empty beer glasses sitting on the table where my wife and I had been eating lunch with another family. Our friends had ordered too much food … [Read more...] about Wasting Chicken Wings Really Burns My A$$
This past week, my article "Free Laptop Nation: How Free Is It?" was featured in the 144th Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by BeingFrugal.net. As it was published on St. Patrick's Day (the one on the calendar, regardless of what the Catholic … [Read more...] about Best Finance Articles from Carnival of Personal Finance #144
This is part fourteen of the Ways to Save Money Series. Now that I work from home one day per week due to school, I can't just have the heat down to our normal daytime temperature or I would be very uncomfortable. But running the furnace at our … [Read more...] about Ways to Save Money #14: Block-Off Unused Rooms
Continuing with the Ways to Save Money Series, I'd like to present a method of saving money through what some people consider a disgusting method: Using a Handkerchief. Growing up, I had horrible allergies. The pets (dogs, guinea pigs, iguanas, … [Read more...] about Ways to Save Money #13: Use a Hanky
Knowing Mighty Bargain Hunter's love of coins, I shouldn't have expected anything less for this week's Festival of Frugality than a history lesson on money. For instance, do you know under which president the U.S. Mint was formed? In which city? Or … [Read more...] about A Lesson on Money and Frugality: Festival of Frugality #113
