In a recent article I compared our budget to a guideline budget from The World’s Easiest Guide To Finances. One of the areas I identified as a problem for us was eating out too much. My wife and I spent some time over the weekend talking about this, and decided to reduce the amount [...]
As blog readers, many of you are most likely familiar with RSS as way of reading blog content and being notified of updates. If you aren’t familiar with RSS, then here’s an overview. There is also a site dedicated to RSS that provides some great info as well. In addition to reading blogs, [...]
Seldom will your car require maintenance that you can’t do. Most car repairs and maintenance items are fairly simple. Armed with a little knowledge and some basic tool skills, you can save yourself a considerable amount of money doing repairs yourself. Here’s a few tips for making your own repairs and [...]
As a frequent online shopper it can be difficult to find what online merchant carries which items and at which price. Comparison shopping on the internet is one of the key ways to find the best deal and save yourself a lot money. Surfing around the internet to find who carries what and [...]
Romans 8:25 - “If we look forward to something we don’t have yet,
we must wait patiently and confidently.”
When the iPhone was released I had serious phone envy. While I wouldn’t buy one since my company provides blackberry integration nor due to the high price. I do love the interface on the iPhone. [...]
I like to sell things online. Garage sales are great, they are an easy way to get rid of a lot of stuff. The problem is you get nothing for it. Everybody wants something for 10 or 20 cents. Instead, by selling on-line using eBay, Amazon auctions, Yahoo auctions, or Craigslist [...]
I was talking to a co-worker the other about how my wife is really great about purchasing items at the right time. What I mean by this is she waits until items are out of season to buy them. For example, she purchased a pool for our kids (affiliate link) a few weeks [...]
This is a guest post by Michael Martine.
With more and more everyday activities moving from the physical world to the virtual
world, it becomes possible to save money by eliminating redundancies when these
activities create more than one cost. Doing this means you need to actively seek out
opportunities to eliminate redundancy and that you need to feel [...]
1 Timothy 4:4-5 Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it. We may receive it gladly, with thankful hearts. For we know it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
During the summer, one of our more favorite things to do is head down to [...]
Want to eat out more but your budget just can’t handle the expense? You’ll be surprised at the number of places that offer kids eat free nights. We love to eat out, but with 6 children it’s incredibly expensive regardless of where we go. We are always on the look-out for coupons, [...]
I am surprised by the number of people that still use standard phone service. Digital phone service has been around for about 5 years and in my opinion offers the best rates for residential and commercial phone service.
Digital phone service is phone service provided over your high-speed internet connection. When you sign-up with [...]
A fews weeks ago we decided to start keeping track of the prices for various staple items we purchase. Things like: pampers, dog food, paper towels, toilet paper, milk, bread, etc.
Prior to doing this, we would purchase them at the store we thought had the best price or we would just assume that the [...]
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Here in North Carolina, it’s hot. This time of the year I am looking for any and everything I can do to help keep the house cool and keep my power bill down. Our house is 2200 square feet, and our bill last month was $150.00. [...]
1 Corinthians 6: 19-20 - Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
This is a new series I am starting today. [...]
Update: The PriceProtectr website now has a shiny new user-interface, and a new mascot. They also added a retailers page which shows all of the retailers they support, along with information on the retailers policy and other important information
This is the first in an on-going series of posts I’ll be doing on money saving [...]
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