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moneysense.ca, 11/04/06
Festival of Frugality # 18
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.
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[...] 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. [...]
[...] 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 [...]
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…
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 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: [...]
[...] Canadian Capitalist is hosting the 18th Edition of the Festival of Frugality. There’s some pretty interesting stuff there. [link] [...]
[...] This week’s Festival of Frugality is up and being hosted by the Canadian Capitalist. Check it out. [...]
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!
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!
Referenced in http://www.MoneyAndInvesting.net
[...] Festival of Frugality #18 out at The Canadian Capitalist, with Three flea market finds, all for a dollar. [...]