Money Saving Ideas

My coworker was telling me how she has her daughter in a private school and they have to do fundraisers. Each child’s parent also has to volunteer a minimum amount of hours per semester in the classroom and has to put some time into fundraising. The school participates in the Scrip program. So, the school buys a bunch of discounted *pretend money* (Scrip) from participating stores and they sell it at face value. For example, if I shop at Stater Bros, I would buy $50 Scrip money for $50 (I … Continue reading →

Yes? or No? It depends. (How’s that for an answer?) To be honest with you, I probably shouldn’t be paying for a gym membership. My husband treated me a few months ago to an LA Fitness membership. I wanted to play racquetball. I wanted to take the classes. Running was getting boring for me. My gym room at home was soo boring. I’m not going to the gym as much as I use to anymore. I loved going with my friends on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. I started working … Continue reading →

We haven’t had cable or really TV for about three years. We really hit some hard times, one night our cable TV got shut off when we didn’t pay the bill. The first night it was horrible. What were we going to do? This is what we started to do: family nights. We played games, board games, card games, video games, whatever. We had movie night where we’d pick a DVD and have popcorn. We would have reading night. Sometimes we’d all do different things and have our personal downtime. … Continue reading →

My friend is very frugal. She loves to make money on stuff that is laying around her home. She loves to resell her kids’ toys–when they’re done with it of course. She loves selling her stuff on Ebay and Craig’s list. She worked around to sell her daughter’s tortoise. You can’t sell anything live on Craig’slist but you can charge a *processing* fee, a processing fee of $90. (how coincidental, $90 is how much the tortoise cost) She received 3 calls within a couple of hours. Tortoise was gone from … Continue reading →

In these times, businesses are having a hard time making consumers spend. Businesses are rolling out more sales, coupons and incentives. Before you make a purchase, especially a big one, check to see if there are any deals, coupons or something out there to save you money. I will never pay full price for a lot of things, especially if I’ve seen coupons regularly from specific stores. (Kohl’s, Staples, Office Depot, Sports Authority, etc. ) For example, at Kohl’s, I will go to the clearance rack, find good valued items … Continue reading →