The Fresh Direct Dinner Challenge + MORE

Uncle Greg’s Tightwad Money Saving Tips
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living. 
Hey kids. Uncle Greg here. Today, I want to go ahead and squash all those silly fun-loving dreams you have. I’m tired of all this Spring Break tomfoolery. I am sick of all of this YOLO nonsense. We’ve gone soft here girls…

Goals for my digital life
Publish at least 2-3 posts per week. The most important thing to me is that I don’t want to publish anything that I don’t care about, so if I don’t hit this goal it just means that I’m practicing the old adage “Quality over Quantity”. I would like to try to get at least 5 posts “ahead” of myself to ease the pressure of pumping out content every other day or so…

Something I’ve been trying to focus on recently is to spend more quality time with my son. When we are spending more time together, he’s happier and I’m happier.
It hasn’t always been like this. A big part of the problem has been the fact that I’ve been so harried with work…

Good morning Dinks. Today we are talking about payday loans. For some reason, and honestly I am not sure why, but the personal finance blogging community seems to hate payday loans, payday loan companies and everything they stand for.  Maybe personal finance bloggers hate payday loans because they feel they should, maybe personal finance bloggers hate payday loan companies because one of the blogging pioneers decided not to like payday loans and everyone else just decided to fall in line or maybe personal finance bloggers don’t like payday loans because they are a form of debt…

Today I have a guest post from a lovely young lady. Jessica is a 23 year old, single mom, trying to survive SUCCEED in the BIG APPLE, NYC with her young son. She enjoys personal finance, humor, decor, cooking, and dancing. Thank you Jessica for sharing your story today. 
Many eons ago when I was still a college student…
I always thought when I graduated I would land my dream job and boom that would be it…

The stress of Zombies attacking or the average day…choose.
Just in case you have been living under a rock, Zombies are all the hotness.  The story is not really new, but the popularity of the genre is reaching a critical mass thanks to hits like The Walking Dead.
What strikes me about the trend is the timing…

Everyone loves to get something for free! That is what makes shopping reward programs so popular. The idea of being rewarded just for shopping is an attractive one. However, rewards are only worth it if you are not spending more than you would normally just to earn them. However, it is possible to make use …

If you read my post last week about blowing my grocery budget on take-out. Don’t worry, I’ve found the solution. I call the solution, Fresh Direct. One of my goals for this year was to try new recipes and cook more meals at home. Because I’m often tired, lazy and unmotivated when I get home at the end of a day, I haven’t been cooking at all…

I love options.  I particularly love selling cash-secured put options.  But the best place to start is the beginning.  So for the purposes of this post, I’m going to walk us through the basics of options.  What they are, how do they work, and why you might be interested in them.
A word of caution before we begin…

Do you love to take trips, but hate paying for hotels? Love the outdoors, but aren’t one for roughing it? Well, you could churn some credit cards to get free accommodations, but if you are paying off debt or into saving money, you could learn to love the KOA.

What is the KOA?
Kampgrounds of America was founded by a business man named Dave Drum in 1962…

This is the age old question.  How much will it cost me to get a college education? If we all knew before hand, wouldn’t we be able to make a better decision that would help us figure out the right path?  You should never choose a school based on how much it will cost you, but money is becoming a big factor…

 
The internet can be a great place to save some money on products, but it does require some knowledge and restraint.  There are numerous major online retailers and almost infinite small sites that sell something.  I know many people who do not utilize the internet to purchase items because they don’t know how easy and simple it is…

Breaking free from the clutches of debt is one of the most difficult yet rewarding challenges in all of personal finance. So when my good friend Ben from Money Smart Life had an interesting twist on debt he wanted to share, I jumped at the chance. Oh, and he’s a recently published author on the topic, too…

Chase Freedom is one of the most awesome cash back credit cards and I use it on a regular basis. They offer 5% cash back in categories that rotate each quarter. I almost always use my Chase Freedom card whenever I make a transaction in one of these categories because 5% cash back is very hard to beat…

Whenever Mrs. Frugal Rules and I go somewhere, one of the last things I do before we head out the door is slip my wallet into her purse. I can’t stand riding around with my wallet in my back pocket, especially when my smartphone is filling up my front one! Besides, with three little ones to take care of, she carries around a ginormous purse so there’s more than enough room in there for my wallet…

This is a little on the late side; I should have had this posted last week. Oops. This is why it is important for bloggers to have- and use- an editorial calendar. But better late then never! So, without further ado, I give you my first quarter update to the 2013 $3k challenge.
$3k Challenge income
From a pure income standpoint, I’ve nearly exceeded my 2012 total earnings…

With the world left in a tailspin after the economic downturn, there has never been more focus on how international governments handle their domestic financial affairs and nowadays everyone has an opinion about taxation and welfare provision. As both a political and economic issue, there is no segment of society left unaffected by decisions pertaining to taxation…

Last year in Kauai
Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m constantly looking for time. Okay I just lied, I have been feeling like this for many years now. I always have so many things on my to do list, so many goals that I want to accomplish, and so many new things that I would like to learn or do…

It’s been more than three months since the start of the new year, more than a quarter of the way through 2013. I don’t know about you, but I feel that now is a good time to review what I’ve set out to do, so I’m sure that it will be achieved before the year ends. I’ll also set out some advice on how you can achieve your goals in as effective a method as possible…