I used to have a friend who was incredibly cheap and swore by free haircuts at the local beauty school. It turns out that beauty schools are always looking for guinea pigs for the students to practice on, so if you have one in your area, try giving them a call. Not sure if you [...]

Among the many things I enjoy in life, opening up bank accounts takes a spot pretty close to the top. Huh? you say. Just what kind of sicko are you?
Well, okay, it’s not really that I enjoy opening up the accounts. It’s not really that I even enjoy having the accounts. It’s not that I [...]

So I participated in five blog carnivals this week… and was awarded an editor’s choice in two of them! Hooray!
My Carnival Submissions
Carnival of Debt Reduction #138 - hosted by Rocket Finance and featuring my post So what are you doing with your economic stimulus check?
Carnival of Money Stories #58 - hosted by Free From Broke [...]

Like many of us these days, I don’t have a land-line phone, which means I can’t use a regular fax machine, which means I either have to go to Kinko’s and pay wads of money to send and receive faxes, or find some roundabout free way of doing it. As luck would have it, there [...]

When’s the last time you stopped by a Blockbuster Video (or any other major rental chain)? Their prices are insane! You can expect to spend $3-$5 to rent a DVD that’s not even new - one you could most likely purchase yourself for less than $10. Doesn’t this sound a bit batty?
Luckily, it’s not at [...]

So it occurred to me recently that in this day and age, there is really no reason to pay your bills by mail. Doing so is wasteful in at least two ways: 1) you lose most of your ability to profit from float and 2) you’re forced to use stamps, which are getting expensive.
Theoretically, you [...]

In case you didn’t know, tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. Comic book retailers across the country will be giving out free stuff. The rules for how the giveaways work differ at each store, but if you’re at all interested in comic books, you might as well stop by and get a free one. You [...]

I was walking down the street the other day when I passed by a bunch of newspaper vending machines and one particular headline caught my eye. “Affluent Gen Xers, Ys spurn lavish life,” the headline read. Fascinating, I thought. I wasn’t aware that there was any tendency toward tightwaddery in my generation. I felt like [...]

So I recently spent about $100 on bike supplies. It’s rare for me to blow $100 on any one project or thing, so you might guess that there was some special rationale behind this expenditure. There was.
I inherited my bike from my dad. It was a top of the line model in the 70s. The [...]