Save! Be Frugal! A penny saved is a penny earned. There’s a plethora of maxims meant to encourage us all to save our money for a rainy day. To hoard our excess funds so that we can spend them at a later date and enjoy their usage. But, is saving our money a waste of [...]
This is a guest post by the wonderful Heather Sokol. You can visit her where she writes for Inexpensively.com and also, you can follow her on twitter @justheather. She’s also a member of the awesome Yakezie group. If you enjoy her post, please let her know in the comments here and by adding the post [...]
As I mentioned before, part of what were doing with our tax refund is to remodel our kitchen. Our kitchen was in a bit of rough shape, as some of it was likely original to when the house was built in 1950. The linoleum had been added, as had the carpet and the counter-top, but [...]
Welcome to the Festival of Frugality! This is the 226th edition of the festival and has been deemed the Earth Week 2010 Edition in honor of Earth Day on the 22nd. There’s a lot of frugality to read today, so let’s get right to it. The stars of our show this week are the articles [...]
I dislike getting a refund from the government. I don’t have any good reason to give them an interest free loan, but any changes I make to my W4 don’t seem to make any difference. I keep getting a refund every year. This year, the numbers were really off, because we added a dependent last [...]
Personal finance isn’t all just about the best ways to save money and live frugally. There are other things to consider; other rules that should be followed. Some have absolutely nothing to do with saving money.Many of the posts here at Beating Broke deal with saving money, budgeting, and living frugally. On many occasions I [...]
Well, it’s more like Earth Week at Amazon. They opened it up today and it’s pretty nice, if you’re trying to do as much as you can to go green. They’ve got some links on different things that you can do to go green and have a smaller footprint. They’re not essays, but you might [...]
Maybe it’s just because of the impending spring-like weather. But, it seems like I’ve seen a large number of fitness related posts on many of the personal finance sites that I read. Which made me pose the question. Do fitness and frugality go together? I think the answer is yes. By it’s very definition, frugality [...]
I have to admit a bit of ignorance here folks. For years, I associated the word Prodigal with the word Prodigious. They have the exact same root structure, only different suffixes. Prodig -al -ious. Whoops. The story of the Prodigal Son should have tipped me off, but never did. It wasn’t until I was reading [...]
The words Frugal and Frugality have been some very popular words lately. With the economy the way it is, it’s not very hard to see why. Even so, I still know people who claim to be frugal, but refuse to buy anything but the brand name products. There is very little room for brand names [...]
