Welcome to the 18th edition of the Festival of Frugality dedicated to posts that show how to make every dollar go a little bit further.
Without further ado, here are the highlights:
A Blast From the Past: Portion Control and Cost Per Serving: Frugal Wisdom shows how to practice the lost arts of portion control and calculating cost per serving.
Surviving IV: Change Our Family Tree shares their family’s experience of being broke and how they cut expenses to survive in a series of posts.
Super cheap travel in the Midwest (or England): Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise posts about a new economical bus service called Megabus.
Don’t you know? me-ander says that not everyone appreciates a bargain.
Great “Hot Deals” Sites: 2 Retire At 50 shares his favourite sites to find out what the good deals are for the day.
Finance: Spring Cleaning: Canadian Financial Stuff adds a new ritual for the spring season.
Money Saving Tip: Keep Your Kids from Hanging on Garage Doors: Free Money Finance offers a unique money saving tip!
Hints & Tips: Nuts to Address Labels: Frugal for Life throws out a few extra tips to make things last longer or find new uses for stuff.
Stop Using Costly ATM’s and Make Money with Your Cash: Laws of Finance warns us not to use ATM machines that are not associated with our bank.
What does your pay check and a Dixie Cup have in common? It’s Just Money discusses the common theme behind diapers, paper cups, napkins and income.
Wal-Mart Health: Money and Investing says that Wal-Mart Health providers can help ease the pain on the uninsured, and even save time for the insured.
Cheaper Long Distance Calls from Your Landline or Mobile Phone: Inchoate Random Abstractions talks about jajah.com.
Live Rich, Be Frugal: Young and Broke shares tips on traveling and eating out for those of the frugal mind-set who don’t want to compromise quality.
Packrats and Cookies: The Common Room shares a butterscotch cookie recipe from her great-great grandmother.
Habits, Habits: LRJohnson’s Savings Blog argues that habits make or break a person.
Frugal Garden Art: Cercis’ Journal shows how to use bowling balls for globe garden art.
Take the Frugal Quiz: Wild Blue Yonder asks readers to take a quiz to see how frugal they are.
Discount Travel Transportation: Sound Money Tips talks about a frugal way to travel between major cities.
Use Half The Amount: Personal Finance Advice says that you can use half the amount of almost everything you purchase and the products will still be effective.
A Look at Wells Fargo’s Check Card Rewards Program: AllFinancialMatters checks out Wells Fargo’s Rewards Program.
Men Don’t Buy Tampons and other Budget Busters: Flash’s Saving Blog advises readers to shop from a list, use coupons and not to waste money.
Debtspiration.com: Firevalt Blog talks about an excellent new site that posts motivational quotes each day from various authors about reducing your debt and increasing your savings.
Three flea market finds, all for a dollar: Mighty Bargain Hunter hunted for useful things for pennies on the dollar.
Make $100 In Ten Minutes… Right Now! Punny Money does a basic personal finance exercise to gain a better understanding of his spending and savings habits and shows you how simple measures can translate to big money.
The Price Book - Part I: The Family CEO offers tips on how to keep a price book to take advantage of sale prices.
Eating out for free: Penny Nickel talks about two restaurants where you can literally get a free lunch.
Just Hit It! Frugal Upstate shows how to make a piñata - A great craft for kids and a great addition to a birthday party.
Will my frugality send my kid to the hospital? My Financial Journey declines to have his lawn sprayed with chemicals.
Next week, tune in to Punny Munny for more frugality ideas.
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1 » Want To Blog But Too Scared To Try? on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity // Apr 11, 2006 at 4:53 am
[...] On a frugal note, Canadian Capitalist has posted the Festival of Frugality so if you’re interested in some tips for frugal living give it a whirl. [...]
2 » Festival of Frugality on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity // Apr 11, 2006 at 4:57 am
[...] Festival Schedule: DateHost BlogFestival Link Dec. 13th, 2005Blueprint for Financial ProsperityFestival #1 Dec. 20th, 2005Mighty Bargain HunterFestival #2 Dec. 27th, 2005Free Money FinanceFestival #3 Jan. 3rd, 2006Frugal For LifeFestival #4 Jan. 10th, 2006Okdork.comFestival #5 Jan. 17th, 2006Clutter2CashFestival #6 Jan. 24th, 2006Canadian CapitalistFestival #7 Jan. 31st, 2006Frugal UndergroundFestival #8 Feb. 7th, 2006Blueprint for Financial ProsperityFestival #9 Feb. 14th, 2006Boston Gal’s Open WalletFestival #10 Feb. 21st, 2006Retire At 30Festival #11 Feb. 28th, 2005Mighty Bargain HunterFestival #12 Mar. 7th, 2006Simply ThriftyFestival #13 Mar. 14th, 2005Neo’s Nest EggFestival #14 Mar. 21st, 2006Free Money FinanceFestival #15 Mar. 28th, 2006Frugal For LifeFestival #16 Apr. 4th, 2006Five Cent NickelFestival #17 Apr. 11th, 2006Canadian CapitalistFestival #18 Apr. 18th, 2006Punny MunnyFestival #19 Apr. 25th, 2006Money Blog NetworkFestival #20 May 2nd, 2006Wandering MonkFestival #21 May 9th, 2006Clutter2CashFestival #22 May 16th, 2006Boston Gal’s Open WalletFestival #23 May 23rd, 2006Tired but HappyFestival #24 May 30th, 2006Mighty Bargain HunterFestival #25 June 6th, 2006Value Investing and a Few Cigar ButtsFestival #26 June 13th, 2006AridniFestival #27 June 20th, 2006Blueprint for Financial ProsperityFestival #28 June 27th, 2006Free Money FinanceFestival #29 July 4th, 2006Take a break and celebrate how we whooped the Brits. If you are British, have some crumpets or something. July 11th, 2006Frugal For LifeFestival #30 July 18th, 2006Financial ReflectionsFestival #31 July 25th, 2006Money and ValuesFestival #30 Future datesUndetermined, contact me to host [...]
3 Personal Finance Advice // Apr 11, 2006 at 5:36 am
Monday Reading…
All the festivals and carnivals for this week if you’re looking for some extra reading:
Frugality at Canadian Capitalist
Capitalists at Business Opportunities Weblog
Debt Reduction at Wandering Indian Monk
Personal Finance at My Money Bl…
4 My Financial Journey » Festival of Frugality #18 // Apr 11, 2006 at 5:58 am
[...] The festival of frugality #18 is posted over at Canadian Capitalist . Go check it out there are tons of great articles on how to make your money go the extra mile. There’s also a useless rant about ChemLawn included in the carnival [...]
5 Punny Money // Apr 11, 2006 at 6:02 am
[...] This week’s Festival of Frugality was hosted by one of my all-time favorite carnival hosts, the Canadian Capitalist. As always, there’s a fine selection of the best frugality tips you’ll find anywhere on the interwebbings. Some of my favorites: [...]
6 AllFinancialMatters » Blog Archive » New Festival of Frugality is Out // Apr 11, 2006 at 7:27 am
[...] Canadian Capitalist is hosting the 18th Edition of the Festival of Frugality. There’s some pretty interesting stuff there. [link] [...]
7 Firevalt Blog - Personal finance and entrepreneurship » Festival of Frugality #18 // Apr 11, 2006 at 8:52 am
[...] This week’s Festival of Frugality is up and being hosted by the Canadian Capitalist. Check it out. [...]
8 Deputyheadmistress // Apr 11, 2006 at 10:11 am
You did a great job, but I apparently did not. I meant to give you the link to this post:
http://heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.com/2006/04/frugal-extremes.html
Frugal Extremes
The cookie recipe I meant to submit to the Carnival of the REcipes. I must have forgotten to clear the form or something. Sorry!
9 Jenn // Apr 12, 2006 at 4:34 am
I’ve got my link up over at Frugal Upstate. It usually takes me a day because I like to give some commentary on the articles that really grabbed me that week.
Thanks for your work!
10 Jose // Apr 13, 2006 at 10:12 am
Referenced in http://www.MoneyAndInvesting.net
11 Mighty Bargain Hunter » Carnivals of Debt Fruvestance // Apr 13, 2006 at 9:30 pm
[...] Festival of Frugality #18 out at The Canadian Capitalist, with Three flea market finds, all for a dollar. [...]
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