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Posts on ‘April 1st, 2009’

Budget Meal Plan: How to Eat For Less Than 20 Dollars Per Week

Cheap groceries, and more importantly cooking more meals, is the easiest way to save money and has the largest immediate impact upon your budget. Even eating out as cheap as possible, it’s easy to spend over 15 dollars a day on horrible over the counter food. By preparing your own meals and packing lunch, you [...]

Cheap Trendy Clothes: A High Fashion How-To

Putting together cheap trendy clothes without spending a ton of money is hard. Before I got involved with fashion and traveled to New York, Paris, London, and Milan during a long internship, I was pretty clueless. But now I’ve learned the best ways to get amazing looking and up to date stylish clothing for dirt [...]

How to Easily Create a Personal Budget Within Minutes

Do you find yourself making a decent amount of money, but never really figure out where it all goes? Do you ever wonder exactly how much you spend on food or booze? During grim economic times, ignorance really isn’t bliss. You can save a ton of cash making a personal budget and every month eliminate [...]

Cheap Booze: How to get Wasted Without Spending Much

If you enjoy going out and getting hammered but don’t really dig spending 50 bucks getting drunk at some random bar, there are many options available to you
First off, this is new secret to most people, but pre-gaming is crucial. If you live in a major city, cheap booze is impossible to find at bars. [...]

Fuel Saving Tips for Cars and Trucks

Car and truck fuel savings doesn’t have to be complicated. Many companies and salesmen try to hawk fuel saving devices as well as fuel saver additives. While some of these may marginally work, they are often expensive, complicated, and some may even damage your vehicle. Here are some fuel saving tips that can help you [...]

Gas Mileage: Scooters vs. Motorcycles, and Why You Should Own One

If there is ever a time to own a scooter or bike, it’s right now. In these grim economic times, gas prices aren’t as important as simply saving gas. Motorcycles and Scooters can either replace, or at least in most cases supplement your current vehicle to save hundreds every month.
Motorcycles are much less expensive than [...]

Save on Electricity: 5 Easy methods

Saving money on electricity shouldn’t be tough. There are dozens of things you can do (some more obvious than others) to immediately impact your monthly bill. These will obviously vary from winter to summer depending on the climate, but lets dive right in:
Having a cold house during the winter is a bummer. The best way [...]

Cheap Exercise: Working Out At Home

Working out at home seems either unpractical or overly complicated, but with the right exercises, you can do it effectively. Not to mention you save on a gym membership and the commute time. It’s a lot easier than you may think, all you need to do is use your imagination and get creative. It’s also [...]

Cheap, Immediate Weight Loss Plan

Are you ready to finally get started on losing weight? The answer isn’t as hard as businesses and diet product pushers make it out to be. Losing weight is a matter of simple science - You can lose 8 pounds per month without truly changing your lifestyle or buying expensive products, diet pills, plans or [...]