Archive for the ‘household’ Category

Fun with Frugality

Posted: December 22, 2008 by Tristen Thomas in household

The ultimate challenge: The CVS two day sale (Dec 21, 22): obtain $144 of product for as little out of pocket (OOP) cash as possible. Every challenge needs a plan so I wrote down how to roll-over my extra care bucks (ecb) so I would spend as little money out of pocket as possible. I made six groups of [...]

Being frugal always sounded like a hardship to me, dull, lifeless, medieval, but in an effort to see if we can live on less, I’ve decided to pursue using coupons in my shopping. A friend showed me a free e-book at couponmom.com to get me started. I also read blogs on how shoppers purchased $200 worth [...]