The green industry is great for the planet, but it’s still an industry, and some argue an elitist one.  Switching to hybrids and shopping solely from Whole Foods are neither frugal nor often green options (if you’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, you’ll know that Big Organic is a lie). Concentrating wholly on [...]

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 [...]

When it comes down to setting your budget, saving your money, spending your money, and acting responsibly with money overall, you are your own worst enemy.  You and only you are responsible for keeping your self-made goals.  There are tools that you can use to help yourself, but the only enemy that you need to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]