So, I was going to blog about this service offered by Barnes & Noble (that I discovered via Treehugger.com) whereby they’ll buyback your used books. The payouts aren’t very much - $1 to $2 - and the books have to be in good condition. They’re also only interested in current textbooks and recent […]
I was once quite good at knots. Back in my Boy Scout days, I could sling a mean Sheepshank or Alpine Butterfly. Then I went and followed the Grateful Dead around in my early twenties and among the casualties of my memory banks were my knotting skills. Luckily I discovered this cool […]
This week’s edition of the Festival of Frugality, #16, is up at Dawn’s Frugal for Life and it’s a biggie. I’ve got two favorites from this week…
Jane Dough, the Boston Gal, has a great post entitled ‘I Blame Nana for the Following…‘ It’s a neat look at how some of our frugal tendancies […]
There’s this 65-year-old fellow in Easton, Massachusetts who was recently downsized for the second time. He’s employing a job search technique that he used the first time this happened, and that is to stand on a busy street corner with a homemade sign that says he needs a job.
Now I really respect folks who […]
Here’s an awesome build tutorial from Instructables.com on how to build your own bicycle cargo trailer using 1/2″ EMT conduit, scavenged bicycle wheels and some plywood for the cargo bed. The author of the piece was able to construct it with materials that only cost him about $30, but if you’re a scrounger with […]
When it comes to playing and entertaining one’s self, it doesn’t get much simpler than heading down to the park and flying a kite; and these cool little Keyring Kites make it easy to ensure that you’re always prepared for when the urge strikes (or someone tells you to go fly one).
It’s a small yet […]
I think these are so cool! I always feel guilty when I’m standing at the grocery store checkout and the cashier is loading my haul into a multitude of plastic bags. I’ve often thought of buying some of those cloth grocery bags, but I know I’ll probably forget to take them with me […]
So, you’ve got a teenager in the house and they’re bugging you to get them one of those fancy uber-cool iPods. Being the frugal and thrifty soul that you are though, you can’t bear to spend that kind of coin on a glorified Walkman, especially when the kid refuses to use the old cassette […]
I can remember something that happened to me very early on in my culinary career. I was about 18 years old and working in my first real upscale kitchen. One afternoon the maitre ‘d comes in to ask chef what the specials for the evening are going to be and he exclaims very […]
I need to make a correction to the ‘Bad Mulch‘ post that I did last night. Thanks to Jenn at Frugal Upstate for pointing me to an article at Snopes.com. I’d imagine that most of you are familiar with Snopes.com as being the leading investigative source for what’s legit online and what’s a […]
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