Frugality

How we lose money on groceries

Everyone wants to save money on groceries.  In spite of numerous tips to save money on groceries, the grocery store is still a major area for impulse shopping. The reason? Visual merchandising. Visual merchandising is not a new concept, it has been in practice for decades now. Depending on customer’s tastes, the layout and ambiance changes but [...]

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When frugality = stupidity : Illusion of saving money

Which of the squares A & B is a darker shade of gray? If you answered A as I did first, you are wrong The answer is both of them are the exact shade of gray. (See the proof at the end of the post). Everyday we are tricked by a number of illusions. Sometimes [...]

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A road trip to a cheap (luxury) rental car

When we got married we were strapped for time and money. So instead of going somewhere far, we decided on a road trip close to home. After all, paying an exorbitant amount to live in California should have some perks. We decided to take the Pacific Coast Highway from Los Angeles to Redwood National Park, [...]

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Where to get free stuff : Mega Guide to freebies

Who doesn’t like more stuff in life I have a semi-regular series on how to get free stuff either free bowling during summer, free movies, free credit scores… I will continue to write this series but I have a lot of short notes that wouldn’t fit in my series (I don’t write about “today only” [...]

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Are you getting all the car insurance discounts you are eligible for?

This Car Insurance Discounts post is part 1 of the 3 part “How to get cheaper car insurance” series. Part 2, Car Insurance coverage, will be posted on June 11th and part 3, How to get cheaper car insurance, will be posted on June 15th. My first car is 5 years old today. I didn’t [...]

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Free money Friday : Watch Movies for Free

One of the feedback I got from my regular readers in my Amazon Kindle giveaway post as well as through emails, is my posts are a little long. Now, by the very nature of the topics I write and the research I put in through for each post, it tends to be longer and more [...]

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Let your grocery purchases fuel your car…

Your grocery purchases could get you free gas. A lot of grocery stores are offering perks/rewards for using their loyalty card or partnering with companies like FuelPerks to offer discounts at the gas pump. You do your grocery shopping as usual, earn points for those purchases, then use your grocery store loyalty cards at the [...]

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Free bowling games for kids all summer long

Summer is almost here. Kids will be off school and you will be hearing a lot of “I’m bored”. There are plenty of kids activities, very frugal activities to keep them busy and your wallet fat. Here is one of them – Free bowling games for kids… all summer long.  

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Regret buying that Groupon voucher? Get rid of it at these sites!

You saw a 72% off pole dancing classes voucher on Groupon… May be at that time you were running low on sugar and thought pole dance would be an excellent way to start exercising again and bought it with excitement. Then after a good meal and a good nights sleep now you keeping asking yourself [...]

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