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Restaurant Coupon Put to Good Use

Normally I avoid cheap sushi, but last night I made an exception.  I finally used that restaurant coupon I bought for $4.00 on Slickdeals.  The coupon was worth $50 off the purchase of $100 at a local sushi restaurant (alcohol included!!).
So I called my friends and we went out last night for a great meal.  [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: A Night Out, Cheap Thrills, Coupons, Food  No Comments

It’s Officially Holiday Season

You heard me right.  I walked into a store today and saw my first Christmas tree of the year, and you know what that means.  Happy holidays!  With Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Xmas coming up soon, how are you going to save money through the holidays?  So far my ideas include turning off the lights and [...]

September 27, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Cheap Thrills, Frugal or Cheap?, Spending Zero Dollars, holidays  No Comments

A Cheap Family Vacation

So I’m finally back at home, unpacked, and settled in.  So let’s talk about my vacation.  For starters, it was pretty cheap.  Cheap as in affordable, not tacky.  We stayed at a nice beach house in the first week of off-season, so the rates were much more reasonable than if we had vacationed in the [...]

September 11, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Cheap Thrills, Food, New Spending Habits, Travel  No Comments

Spending Zero Dollars and Drinking at Bars

Last Thursday, my sister met up with some friends for drinks downtown.  It was supposed to be a low-key evening on a patio, but things quickly got out of hand.  For starters, she opened a tab at the bar and started ordering rounds for her friends.  She quickly lost track of how much she had [...]

September 10, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: A Night Out, Cheap Thrills, Lessons From My Family, New Spending Habits, Spending Zero Dollars  No Comments

My Week of Discounts

I’ve had quite the money-free week, and it’s all thanks to some great discounts and deals I received:
First, I spent absolutely zero dollars on lunch at work this week.  I had to attend 4 all-day business meetings, but they were actually fun AND completely catered.  I also received a voucher for our cafeteria from a [...]

August 28, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Cheap Thrills, Discounts, Spending Zero Dollars  No Comments

When is Produce In-Season?

Now that I’m bargain-hunting at the grocery each week, I’m trying to buy in-season produce that is on sale.  Other than oranges, which I know are in-season during the winter months, I’ve never really been aware of which produce is fresh at different times of the year- until now.  I found a website called Fruit [...]

August 26, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Cheap Thrills, Discounts, Food  No Comments

Employee Discounts and Corporate Perks

When Kelly at Almost Frugal interviewed me a few weeks back, she asked me to describe one unusual way that I save money.  I told her that I take advantage of my employee discounts at work to save money.
The HR department where I work sends out “deals of the week” emails.  They have discount sporting [...]

August 17, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Cheap Thrills, Coupons, Discounts  One Comment

Frugal Summer Reading

It seems that publishing has caught up with our view of the economy and spending habits.  Gone are the days of “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and “Sex and the City”.  Here is a list of new fiction for today’s frugal women:

Hedge Fund Wives by Tatiana Boncompagni
Social Lives by Wendy Walker
The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah [...]

August 17, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Cheap Thrills, New Spending Habits  No Comments