Category: Money Saving Tips

This is where I normally post money saving tips, but sometimes it’s a losing battle. This month our city selected trash collection company notified us that fees would be increasing. I should be calling them our environmental services provider, as they like to be called these days. This is what

I find that doing nothing gets you nowhere in life. Every time that I did something productive it made a positive change in my life. Now that I have reached the age of 60, the energy I have left to take on new projects has dwindled. There are still things

Normally I try not to drink a lot of Coke and Pepsi products. But my girlfriend has an addiction to Mountain Dew, so we always have it on our grocery list. Since she pays for the groceries, I don’t complain too much. Just like everything else, the price of soda

Before my income went below the poverty level, I didn’t think too much about what beer I was buying, as long as it was a good brand. Those days are long gone and now I have to go with lower price options for my weekend refreshment. It reminds me of

Whoever came up with the “Buy 5 save $5” grocery promo is a genius. In this promo you buy 5 items from a list of hundreds of items and save $5 off those items. The items you can select usually range in price from $3 to $10. Trying to choose

It’s the middle of winter in central Minnesota and we have about 3 feet of snow on the ground. The temperature has been below freezing most days since early December this year. In past years, when I was working, we would go shopping or to the casino to get some