By: Jessie
You really hit the nail on the head with your last highlight. For the last few years I survived as the microwave queen and ate out A LOT! I learned how to cook with a few of the beginner cookbooks and...
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Great Post. Detours around shopping magnets also work for me. The best sales are the ones I avoid. As always, I’ve enjoyed my visit to your blog.
View ArticleBy: Russell Bailyn
Great post–books are my weakness as well. At least with Amazon.com you can buy the books at a discount. Blogging helps too… you can often persuade publishers to send you review copies for free. If you...
View ArticleBy: gp
My wife convinced me to use the library. She always checked out her books, but it never occurred to me to do the same. After paying $20 or so for a book, it would just sit there and collect dust. I’m...
View ArticleBy: Lazy Man and Money
You are dead-on about the gin and tonics at home. One way to make it feel easier could be to splurge on some Tanguary Ten (my person fav). It’s expensive compared to other gins, but it would still be...
View ArticleBy: Matt
Great Post, all of the items you mention are things that are great money savers. Impulse buys when you’re going out for say a book are how many of the big box stores get you (and probably why many of...
View ArticleBy: Silver Lining
Continuing the theme of avoiding temptation–one weakness of mine was online shopping, so when I decided to really tighten the pursestrings, I unsubscribed from every commercial e-mail newsletter or...
View ArticleBy: Cami
There are no such things as “little things” financially – those bagels or morning coffees will kill you financially, eventually. So many people I work with constantly complain they have “no money” but...
View ArticleBy: Robin
Nice article. Unfortunately our local library tries hard, but often misses. I joined a paperbackswap club, and while I pay shipping costs, I don’t pay full price for books any longer and I don’t have...
View ArticleBy: Jihan
I have to agree with the spendings of having a drink with friends. I used to hang out with a few friends and we occasionally bought food and stuff. Not to mention to stay in the cafe, we’d have to buy...
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