Is there any way to reward yourself for savings that mostly happen in theory?

Here's what I mean:( Babbling about saving money, and why it doesn't exactly work like dieting much though I'd like it to )

As some of you know, I've been cancelling my credit cards. This was the conversation I had on the phone earlier with one of the credit card companies ( Read more... )

...this is following from an aside in the last post. I need a dvd player, and a cd player (my cd player drive in my computer died, and interestingly the sound seemed to go a bit before that, so I have no sound-making things around at all except the cats). Is it possible, and smart, to get a drive that I can just stick in my computer that will ( Read more... )

Another frugal board I frequent had a link to this MSN article, 9 Ways to Look Rich But Live CheapClearly, I think there are benefits to living frugally, although a lot of the time my goal is as much about doing what's responsible for the planet (reuse, recycle) as about saving money. Are there really all that many benefits to "appearing rich" ( Read more... )

Found this article via twistedchick. It's from the Washington Post, and it's about how people are being buried by their credit card debt.

( Full article )

..including all the costumey stuff, and so I got a dozen of everything from faery, renaissance, to coats that are Matrix ripoffs, some stuff they advertsie as 'charlie's angels' but I haven't seen the films and don't know, cloaks, you name it...hurry hurry hurry!

The March 2005 issue of Real Simple had an article on ways to save money. I thought their tips and URLs for saving money on gas were interesting.

( When and where to buy gas for your car )

http://www.laundry-alternative.com/

I was so delighted to hear of this on poor_skills last week, sent for one, and it got here already, and bygawd it does actually seem to work pretty well. I can see ways to Get In Big Trouble, like spraying water all over if you aren't doing it right, but I ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I never got to the house in the last post, so ( here's the rest of the story in brief. )

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Savinganddebt/Savemoney/P107710.asp

A few choice quotes:

The trappings of affluence are no longer limited to those who can afford them. Increasingly, middle-class Americans will pay top dollar just to have the ( Read more... )