95th Festival of Frugality
October 9th, 2007 | Published in General | 17 Comments
My Retirement Blog is honored to host this week’s Festival of Frugality as the 95th edition finds its home here for the first time. Without much ado, here is the festival:
Gems of the Week
- Alison presents Under the Weather and Over the Counter, a review of meds and how the generics will often do just fine when you’re not feeling fine.
- Silicon Valley Blogger presents 8 Lessons I Learned From The Cheapest Family In The Nation.
- Very appropriately, Summer presents Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costumes.
- The Dough Roller presents Stop Frittering Away The Fruits Of Your Frugality.
- Frugal Panda presents 57 Creative Ideas to Save Money As a Pet Owner.
- juicefairy presents Great Kitchen Makeover Tip. Whoops! 🙂
Food, Groceries, Couponing
- Brett McKay presents 27 Ways To Save Money On Food.
- King of Debt presents Skip Ragu and Prego, Make Your Own Tomato Sauce.
- Single Ma presents Over 40 Ways to Reduce Your Grocery Bill.
- patti presents Joe’s Lunch.
- Melissa presents Couponing Strategies – ?Separate And Save For Sales?
- paidtwice presents Bulk Buying: My Next Steps.
- FrugalTrader presents Saving Strategy: Brown Bag Your Lunch!.
- GP presents Getting Grounded and Green.
- Kris presents Cheap Healthy Pork: Recipes, Methodology, and Tips.
- Brett McKay presents 27 Ways To Save Money On Food.
In The Household
- plonkee presents fake it till you make it.
- Moorea presents Femme Economics: Save on Laundry and Dry Cleaning.
- FIRE Finance presents Live Rent Free and Earn as a Caretaker.
- Stephanie presents Do It Yourself Basket Planter.
- the baglady presents Discovering Cooperative Living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- juicefairy presents Great Kitchen Makeover Tip.
Everything Else
- JvW presents Emotionally Frugal
- Super Saver presents Exercise for Free.
- glblguy presents Money Saving Monday Tip #12 – Repair Your Own Car
- Logan Flatt, CFA presents How to Get Ahead In America (4th of a 12-Part Series).
- The Happy Rock presents The $0.60 Verizon Cell Phone Battery At Amazon.com.
- Amy Allen Clark presents Day 30: Life’s Great Lessons.
- Matt Wolfe presents Set Up A Website For Your New Business Cheap.
- FMF presents Save Money by Only Using a Cell Phone.
- The Financial Blogger presents Becoming Frugal Through Your Goals.
- Kyle James presents What I Learned About Frugality from Ken Burns, The War.
- R.Pettinger presents Tips for Reducing Electricity and Gas Bills.
- Ken Nubo presents How to get a discount on almost anything.
- The Free Geek presents Broke? Alcoholic? How to Drink on a Dime: 10 Surefire Tips.
- Raymond presents The 3,000 Mile Oil Change Myth – Save Your Money.
- juicefairy presents Great Kitchen Makeover Tip.
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Next week the Festival of Frugality moves to FIRE Finance so submit your entries early and often!
October 9th, 2007 at 9:38 am (#)
Hi,
Thanks for the link. While I appreciate all of the coverage I think the person you intended to link to under “Gems of the Week” will be disappointed. I do really want to read about generic brand meds too 🙂
October 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pm (#)
Whoops 🙂
October 9th, 2007 at 4:41 pm (#)
Neat festival! Thanks for hosting and including our post. Keep up the good job.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance
October 9th, 2007 at 9:42 pm (#)
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A wholehearted thanks for the opportunity to join this carnival. Love the list of frugal tips!!
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What an interesting variety of articles this time around!
October 10th, 2007 at 9:51 am (#)
Thanks for including my post. Great job hosting!
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