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37 Garage Sale Tips and Tricks: A Guide To Hosting Great Yard or Garage Sale

Author | August 22nd, 2023 | Shopping
Guide to hosting great garage sales

If you’re looking for Garage Sale Tips and Tricks, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve hosted and participated in dozens of very successful garage sales.

We’ve written this Garage Sale Guide to help you turn your unwanted treasures into cash. There are 37 ideas presented on this page to help you run an efficient and profitable yard sale at your home. Or to host a rummage sale for a charitable organization where you volunteer.

Hosting A Garage Sale – Where to Start

Have you ever wondered how to host a great and profitable garage sale? We’ve hosted dozens of yard or garage … Read more »

9 Garage Sale Shopping Tips: Roadmap To Yard Sale Treasure Hunting.

Author | May 26th, 2020 | Shopping
Garage Sale Treasures - 7 Shopping Strategies!

Are you looking for some garage sale shopping tips to help you find killer deals the next time you go out treasure hunting?

If you’re going to spend a day driving around and looking for garage sale treasures, try these 7 tips to make your time Garage Sale treasure hunting more profitable (and less expensive).

Many people shop garage sales to save money on the things they need. Others shop to find items that they can Flip for cash. And then there’s a segment of the population who simply shop garage sales as a recreational activity.

No matter the reason you shop at … Read more »

19 Affordable and Fun Spring Activities for Families

Author | March 7th, 2024 | Recreation/Fun
A list of inexpensive Spring recreation and fun ideas

Spring Activities – if you’re looking for fun spring activities for families this is the place. Spring is a time full of awesome and affordable recreational events. It’s the time for plants and trees to come back to life. And in many parts of the country families can be outside to enjoy the more temperate weather and outdoor activities.

If we just look ahead at the upcoming calendar & holidays there are plenty of opportunities for fun on the affordable side.

EVENTS AND SPRING ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES

Are there special Spring events in your area that tourists usually attend? Well, maybe you would … Read more »

Top 25 Sites Like Craigslist: Alternatives for Buying or Selling FAST!

Author | February 29th, 2024 | Make Money, Crafts / Home Decor, Free Stuff, Shopping
Sites Like Craigslist. #SellUsedItems #SellSafelyCraigslist #FlipUsedItems #SellStuffMakeMoney

If you like buying and selling things online, you need to know about other sites like CraigsList. There are a growing number of websites that are Craigslist alternatives for listing items for sale, classified ads, freebies, and advertising services.

Craigslist offers great opportunities to buy and sell your stuff. Back in 1995 the platform started as a classified advertisements website and has remained one of the best ways to buy and sell things.

Although Craigslist may have been the first site to connect buyers and sellers in a community-centered way, it is no longer the only way that you can buy and … Read more »

8 Secrets to Survive an Economic Downturn or Personal Financial Crisis

Author | February 22nd, 2024 | Budgeting
How to Survive a Financial Crisis and Economic Downturn.

Are you going through a financial crisis or cut in pay? Has the Covid Pandemic created financial hardship for you?

If your income were to dramatically drop tomorrow, would you survive?

Would you spiral into a financial crisis or would you be able to keep your head above water?

Types of Economic Downturns

Over the past 40 years, we’ve seen a huge number of economic downturns. How many of these do you remember?

9 Economic Downturn examples:

Energy Crisis (Gas prices soared 50 percent) July 1981 – November 1982

The Savings and Loan Crisis in the 1980s – … Read more »

33 Places that Buy Used Cell Phones for Cash – Broken or Working

Author | January 16th, 2024 | Utilities / Phone, Make Money
Trade in Used Cell Phones for cash.

Have you ever wondered, “Who buys used cell phones?” Many stores are willing to buy used cell phones for cash.

Do you have some old cell phones sitting in a drawer? Would you like to turn that outdated technology into cash?

This article will help you turn your unneeded phones into needed money.

We’ll share stores that are nearby where you can get cash today for your phone.

And we’ll also share several online options where you can get a quote and then mail your phone in for a cash payout.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Best Places to Sell Old Phones Online2 Places … Read more »

56 Fun, Inexpensive & Interesting Hobbies

Author | January 9th, 2024 | Recreation/Fun
Fun, Inexpensive & Interesting Hobbies #InterestingHobbies #InexpensiveHobbies #FunHobbies #INeedaHobby #AffordableHobbies #MakeMoneyHobbies

Have you ever said to yourself, “I need a hobby?” Are you looking for some fun, inexpensive, or interesting hobbies to try?

Hobbies are a great way to challenge yourself, learn a new skill, or provide some extra income. And they’re especially fun if they don’t cost a lot of money to get started.

If you’re looking for something new, check out these 53 choices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Fun & Interesting Hobbies that Became Successful Businesses2 A. Skilled Hobbies3 B. Cool Intellectual Hobbies to Enrich Your Brain4 C. Online Affordable Hobbies5 D. Popular Outdoor & Interesting HobbiesRead more »

Christmas on a Small Budget—30 Ideas For A Magical Holiday

Author | December 12th, 2023 | Holidays, Gifts
A great christmas on a small budget

How can you have a Magical Christmas and an extra special Christmas on a small budget if your bank account is less than enchanted?

We all want to make Christmas a special time of year for our kids and other family members. But we don’t want to wake up in January with huge credit card bills and a large dose of Christmas regret.

It really comes down to time versus money. If you don’t have the money to buy every present you want to give, then you’ll have to invest some time to make the magic happen.

If you can involve your spouse … Read more »

54 Productive Things To Do When You’re Bored

Author | October 4th, 2023 | Recreation/Fun, Budgeting, Miscellaneous
Productive Things to Do When You're Bored

There are LOTS of blogs written about fun things to do when you’re bored.  So, we wanted to put a new twist on that, and offer you a list of productive things to accomplish in this season of staying home more than normal.

We’ve broken this list of productive activities into 9 categories:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 1) Money Activities (5 ideas)2 2) Outdoor Activities (6 ideas)3 3) Organizing Activities (13 ideas)4 4) Things to do with Your Computer (5 ideas)5 5) Cleaning Activities to do When Bored (7 ideas)6 6) Kitchen Activities (5 ideas)7 … Read more »

Summer Jobs for Teens: Finding Work & Earning Money

Author | June 22nd, 2023 | Kids & Money
Summer jobs for teens - be a barista.

Is your teen looking for a summer job? There are companies hiring AND lots of out of the box earning opportunities. 

We’ll give you tons of practical ideas to help your teenager find work this summer, and into the rest of the year. 

1. Paying Summer Jobs for Teens

There are lots of jobs for teens in the restaurant industry and others. Here’s a short list of the types of jobs a young person can get near home.

Courtesy Clerk at a Grocery Store

Our son Joe did this and worked his way up into helping promote his store’s weekly $5 Friday Deals. Many grocery … Read more »

Plastic Surgery for Paying off Debt: 9 Steps to Being Debt Free!

Author | June 15th, 2023 | Budgeting, Debt Reduction
How to Destroy Debt forever - You can be debt free

Do you want to get out of Debt? Have you been trying to pay off what you owe, but keep getting hit with unexpected emergencies.

Keep reading – we have 9 things you can do to kill your debt. And several things you can start applying today.

How is Debt Like Being in a Car Crash?

Have you ever come across an auto accident where a battered, bloody victim was walking around in a daze? Asked if he’s all right, he stutters, “Y-Yes, I’ll be fine.” Obviously hurt, in shock, and needing immediate attention, he still refuses help. “I’m all right,” he … Read more »

Favorite Money Saving Websites – Our Thrifty Friends

Author | March 7th, 2022 |
Thrifty Friends Saving Money Icon.

This page is full of links to some of our favorite thrifty friends’ websites & frugal Resources!

When you hang out with thrifty friends you’ll pick up new and better ways to save money. We love hanging out, sharing and learning from the people on this page and hope you will too!

This list includes:

Living on a Dime
Dollar Stretcher
Blissful and Domestic
Original Drip Catcher
Savers
Six Dollar Family
Hillbilly Housewife
Best Personal Finance Websites
YNAB – A better way to control your spending
Discounted Newspaper Subscriptions

Living on A Dime – Frugality to the Max!

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The Today Show #8 – Getting Back on Budget

Author | January 8th, 2022 |
Christmas on The Today Show #1

Steve, Annette, Becky, and Abbey Economides appeared on NBC’s Today Show to share how their budgeting system has enabled us to accomplish some remarkable financial accomplishments in the past 28 years. They also shared loads of money-saving tips for reducing expenses in your entire house.

As usual, we had so much material to cover that we didn’t quite get to it all. Below is a list of the questions we were supposed to cover and some more detailed answers on how you can make your money go further than ever before.

Questions from Today Show Producers

YOU INSIST THAT MAKING A BUDGET … Read more »