4 Effective Ways to Lose Weight and Still Save Money

While healthcare is a necessary expense, it still helps to adjust your lifestyle to reduce the risk of costly medical bills. As such, a previous post highlights health improvement tips to manage healthcare spending, which can reach an annual average of $4,500. Such tips include eating healthy and staying active to avoid overweight and obesity,…

Money Management Tips To Consider

Pexels One significant part of your life is your finances. It’s important that you can pay your bills on time and that you have the necessary funds available to you when you need them. It’s possible you’ve been wanting to get better organized financially but haven’t had the time to concentrate on this matter. Now…

Are We Being Asked to Tip More?

Are We Being Asked to Tip More?

I’m an American who lives in the UK, so I think about tipping kind of a lot. In America, tipping is pretty common practice. I expect to tip in most situations. In Europe, this is considerably less so. But, I have noticed an interesting shift here. With everything being automated, most of the tap payment…

10 Tips to Prep for a Frugal Christmas

10 Tips to Prep for a Frugal Christmas

This week I’ve been focused on what I can do to my holiday spending as frugal as possible. Not necessarily cheap, but I’ve been more focused that the last few years on the best ways I can maximize saving money on stuff I was going to buy anyway. Create an email account for loyalty cards…

Is Temu Legit? My Experience with Temu

Is Temu Legit? My Experience with Temu

Friends. I caved the siren song of cheap things. I bought some stuff from Temu. I will admit I knew like nothing about Temu other than… this stuff is suspiciously cheap. How do you even make stuff this cheap? I hoped it was because with a nice, long shipping time, that’s no problem these days.…

My Questionably Frugal Mint Journey

My Questionably Frugal Mint Journey

So this past week I had one of those moments where I was feeling particularly frugal and DIY-y and found myself in possession of a lot of mint. Like, literal mint. This is not slang for something else. Or money. Sadly. I bought a mint plant a few weeks ago for like £1.50. That seemed…

5 Recession-Proof Ways To Boost Your Income

Pixabay It’s easy to start worrying when a recession hits. When the whole country struggles financially it could make you wonder if your personal finances will be safe. In addition, with the rising costs of living, you may already have needed a boost to your income. Is it possible to boost your income during a…

A Tale of Two Coffee Pots

A Tale of Two Coffee Pots

I got addicted to coffee considerably later than most folks I know. Through most of my twenties I had a tradition of getting a fancy drink at the coffee shop on board the ship where I worked on the last day of the cruise before settling in to do my end of cruise paperwork and…

How To Take Your Money Into Your Own Hands

Money worries are something we all deal with from time to time. However, a recent study has revealed that an alarming 77% of Americans are worried about their financial situation. Of course, there are many reasons behind this spike in financial uncertainty. After all, we are still dealing with the shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic…

How to be Better at Boosting Your Savings

You need to build your savings account for the rainy days. You don’t know what might happen. If things go south, you will feel confident since you have enough money to keep things going. The problem is you have too many bills to pay and expenses to consider. You might not have enough money left…

How You Can Secure Your Future Financially

Securing your future financially isn’t necessarily going to make you rich, or make your current life easier, but it will help to make sure that you’re not going to struggle later on. No one wants to live paycheck to paycheck, especially not for the rest of their life, and that’s why you should be looking…

How to be More Frugal When Times Are Tough

Right now, times are tough for a lot of people with the prices of essential items and resources going up all the time. That’s why now might be a good time to think about how you’re spending your money and how you might be a little more frugal with it going forward. With that in…

Cheaper Ways To Renovate Your Home This Spring

https://unsplash.com/photos/UqNEbyRQ660 A lot of people want to do home renovations that aren’t going to cost a lot of money, but they are unsure of what they should do. Now that spring is coming, you might want to make some improvements to your home. But if you want to save money, avoid unnecessary costs, and keep…

9 Tips for Buying Your First Car

Suppose you are looking to buy a car for the first time, congratulations! You have taken an essential step towards financial responsibility and independence. Purchasing a vehicle is not as hard as it seems, but it can be overwhelming if you don’t know what to expect. This blog post will provide helpful tips on buying…