All Tried Out

[Duchesse]

What do you do when you're Amy'd out. (Amy Dacyzyn, The Tightwad Gazette)

I was raised by a frugal mom. She taught us shopping sales, bulk shopping,cooking at home and thrift store shopping. When I became an adult I found that frugality was a part of me. On my own I learned and started taking advantage of coupons, rebates, freebies and after reading Amy's book I feel like a frugal blackbelt. All of this helped me tighten my game.

What else can I do?

Can you really make money on line?

[bennkar]

Can you make money online? I suppose, though usually its a hard road to hoe (or whatever that saying is). There are sites you can make some money, though not high paying for the time & effort, but maybe that's for you.

Otherwise, find your niche (or at least what you like to do), whatever that is. I can't say there is lots of easy to do stuff out there, but for me I go to yard sales and thrifts most of the year (amusement as much as anything else). Anyway, I buy things I am certain I can resell online. Last year I netted over $1,000, with about $500 of that in the last two months. The clerks at the post office are knowing me on sight.

[Duchesse]

I looked for some leaks and I found some.


Like a fool, I've been paying for my email service for 11years. That's exactly what my son said. By cancelling this drain I saved $23.99/month.

I decreased my cell phone bill by $10. I then switched companies recently which will save me another $10 off of my cable plan each month and another $10 off my cell phone with this new plan!

I'm on the hunt for some coupons, rebates, freebies, and a good idea to make some online money!



Keep, keeping on.

[rennigade]

Just to add...dont bother using emoticons...they havent worked in months.

[ktmarvels]

Just to add...dont bother using emoticons...they havent worked in months.

They are showing up just fine for me!

And congrats on finding so many drains!

[Nutria]

I've been paying for my email service for 11years. ... $23.99/month.

I didn't even know that you could pay for email service!!

[Duchesse]

I didn't even know that you could pay for email service!!

I signed up for AOL years ago. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that I was lost somewhere. I was in an abyss.


Things are better now.

Keep, keeping on.

[Nutria]

I signed up for AOL years ago.

Ah. You were still on AOL, even when you migrated to Cable/DSL?

Check your CC statements every month!!!

[Duchesse]

One Hell of a Leak!

Although the price was lower when I initially signed up, at $23.99/month that's $300 per year!

I've calculated and at least plugged a $3,000 drain on my funds.

Keep, keeping on.