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 [...]

One of the side effects of my wife’s entrepreneurial adventures has been that we have a very unstable income on her side of the balance sheet.  And part of how we’ve dealt with that is to try and save money in as many ways as we can.  Frugality has become the modus operandi in our [...]

One of the sure fire ways to save money that is touted here and everywhere is to cancel cable service.  Whether you cancel the whole thing or just pare down to the smallest package for network stations, you’re left with a fair chunk of time to do something else.  Again, another suggestion to take up [...]

Do you think that being a Frugaler is normal?  It obviously is a bit abnormal in the American society.  Although, with recent economic news, I think that it’s becoming more popular.  But normal?  I really don’t think so. Sometimes, we look at the world through the personal finance bloggers perspective.  We see all the other [...]

If you’re  looking to pickup a copy of QuickBooks Pro 2009 for your home business or your small business, today (December 22, 2008) is the day to do it.  Intuit has announced that for one day only, you can get a free copy of the program at your local Staples. The way it works is [...]

Ok, I’ll admit it, I made that word up. Well, at least as it would be a name instead of an action/habit.  It occurred to me while watching an episode of Wife Swap on Friday evening.  You’ve seen it, or a show like it, I’m sure.  They take the wives from two families and then [...]