Shoestring Living: Pulling out the stops for a fun night in

    When I think about what life over the past eight years as our children arrived and began to toddle around and then go off to school, I'm sure we saved much of the money that we previously used to entertain ourselves. The busyness of early family life took away our urge to go out on the town like we had pre-kids.  

Do You Live in a High-Debt City?

New survey data shows that geography can be a liability when it comes to spending.

Passion for design inspires book

Randy Florke's passion for preserving late 19th and early 20th century farmhouses has inspired a book full of ideas on inexpensively decorating and renovating a home with good materials someone else no longer needs.

FRUGAL LIVING: Use less to save money and avoid waste

It's easy to waste products by using too much. This is especially true with products that are pourable or in squeezable containers. No one wants to feel like there's a daily audit on product usage, but if at least one person in the household measures only the amount that is needed or makes an effort to use less of a product, it can amount to a decent amount of annual savings without any loss in ...

Poll: Cheating spouse vs. job loss

In another page from "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," a new study from ING Direct shows men and women have different takes when it comes to losing a job, a cheating spouse or racking up debt. Given a choice, 46 percent of men said they...