Welcome to the 7th edition of the Festival of Frugality dedicated to posts that show how to make every dollar go a little bit further. Last week’s edition was hosted by Clutter2Cash.

Without further ado, here are the highlights:

Extended Warranties: Investing Intelligently relates a personal story about being asked to buy an extended warranty on an audio cable. Tries to answer the question, “are extended warranties worth buying?”

Spending Less Money on Food: Investing Intelligently provides us some tips on how to spend less on food from his personal experience.

Frugal Valentine’s Day: February 14th is just around the corner and Frugal For Life has a few good back up ideas if the desire hits to celebrate the special day.

Simplify Home Cooking: Create Two Recipe Files: Seattle Simplicity offers a neat tip to organize recipes culled from newspapers and magazines.

Calls to and from Abroad treated as local calls: Wandering Indian Monk shows how to use a VOIP phone to make international calls as if they were local.

Asian grocery stores save you money: mapgirl offers some shopping advice on where the deals are at Asian grocery stores.

Debt Reduction: Solve the Right Problem Financially: Canadian Financial Stuff shares an interesting anecdotal story about making sure that you are solving the RIGHT problem.

We don’t need no stinkin’Paperwork Reduction Act: Don’t Mess With Taxes says that dealing with the IRS can be a hassle, a costly hassle. But some people may be able to save some bucks by e-filing for free.