This week, I participated in no less than five blog carnivals. Thanks to all the webmasters and carnival organizers for their hard work.
My Carnival Submissions
Carnival of Debt Reduction #140 - Hosted by Prime Time Money and featuring my post How to ruin yourself financially in one easy step.
Carnival of Money Stories #60 - Hosted by [...]

Somebody really needs to write this, and I figure it might as well be me. I’m a music fan and I’m also a cheapskate and it’s a real bummer to get charged out the wazoo for Ticketmaster fees.
Ticketmaster is the leading ticket seller in the United States, with a market share of more than 50%. [...]

The idea that you can’t live cheap in an urban area seems to be very widespread. I won’t argue that living in an urban area isn’t generally more expensive than living in the country or in the suburbs, because in my own experience, it is. But that doesn’t mean that certain things aren’t actually cheaper [...]

Every now and then, I’ll sell things on eBay to make a little extra cash. I’ve been an eBay member for a number of years now and for most of those years I resisted purchasing a postal scale. I’d base my shipping charges around what seemed to be the going rate and let it stand [...]

This blog is about living cheap as a means of attaining financial freedom - that is, the ability to do what you love and to do it when and how you choose. I’m all about the nitty-gritty stuff that you have to do to get to that point. I’m not interested in idle dreaming. I [...]

Around where I live, gas is super expensive, so I always try to plan my gas purchases to coincide with car trips out of town. I know where to find pretty cheap gas close to some of the destinations I frequent, but you know what? Pretty cheap is not cheap enough! Especially in these days [...]

So I participated in four blog carnivals this week and was awarded with one editor’s choice. Thank you to all the webmasters who worked hard to put these carnivals together!
My Carnival Submissions
Carnival of Money Stories #59 - Hosted by Money Walks and featuring my post When bank account bonuses come back to bite you, which [...]

I like the idea of making your own stuff instead of buying it. I find that doing so is often not only frugal but fun. For instance, I often make my own yogurt and granola bars. It’s cheaper to make these things at home than it is to buy them at the store, and it’s [...]

Today, for a little change of pace, I’d like to tell you how to ruin yourself financially. Why choose financial failure over financial success? Well, there’s one main reason: it’s so much easier!
In fact, achieving financial ruin takes only one easy step: hope. All you have to do is hope with all your heart that [...]

The particular money-saving idea I’m about to present is a timely one. It’s beginning to get warm outside. Soon, the prospect of turning on the A/C will begin to nag at even the frugally-minded. So I’m just going to jump right in and make a suggestion some people might think is crazy:
Stop using the A/C.
I’m [...]