How to Board Your Pets for Cheap
A review of Rover, an Airbnb type app for pets, that we use to find dog sitters for when we go out of town. Benefits include cost, the attention your pets receive, familiarity, among others.
Tagged: frugal
5 Reasons Why We Love Using Airbnb for Our Travel
Here are the 5 main reasons we love using Airbnb when we travel, including cost, flexibility and more!
How to Develop a Frugal Spidey Sense
Learn how to save more money by developing your own set of frugal habits!
Hate Budgeting? You Should Still Know This Number
Even if you hate budgeting, one key to building financial stability is know what your baseline expenses cost. Here's how to figure out your "bare bones" budget and why it's so important...
New Simple Experiment for Tracking Grocery Expenses
A new experiment I'm testing out for tracking our grocery expenses. Will it end up being a waste of time or a worthwhile tactic?
Money Lessons from Childhood & the Privilege of Having Present Parents
Thinking back on past moments helps me piece together how I've gotten to the point in my life that I'm now at. A lot of the progress in my life can be attributed to a strong foundation of money management skills that I learned throughout my childhood from my parents' example...
Frugal Living is a New Mindset
We live in a society where everything is always becoming new and improved, arriving to our doorstep faster, easier to use, and simpler to understand. These services can make us become more reliant on outsourcing simple tasks and the cost tends to add up quickly. Frugal living challenges the conventional way of thinking and is a whole different mindset...
No More FOMO – Frugal Living Doesn’t Mean You’re Missing Out
Every day we’re bombarded with messages of how we’re missing out on something better. This fear of missing out is often wrongly linked to frugality, as people spend their money frivolously to overcompensate. Spending more money doesn’t buy more happiness, and choosing to live a frugal lifestyle doesn't mean you’re missing out on what life has to offer.
The Difference Between Being Frugal and Being Cheap
We all know who they are. Maybe they’ve pulled the “I forgot my wallet” trick a few too many times. Maybe they load their plate a little too high when a free meal is provided. Or maybe they consistently ask for financial assistance without returning the favor.
Whatever the case, these habits can get extremely frustrating, and eventually lead to strained relationships. We’re talking of course about people who are cheap...
15 Things Worth Splurging On
In all honesty, most of the time I tend to try to avoid spending money whenever possible. I try to avoid being wasteful and purchasing items that will eventually end up becoming meaningless clutter. There are definitely exceptions to this tendency though. I love spending my money on areas that truly matter to me...
#TeamFrugal: Professional Athletes and Frugality
Sadly, it’s become increasingly more common to hear stories in the news of multi-million dollar athletes reaching rock bottom and declaring bankruptcy.
With these alarming statistics and repeated news stories of athletes failing with their money, it would be easy to make the assumption that they’re all living that way. This makes the rare instances of athletes living frugally stand out...
