Category: Money Saving Chronicles

June 10, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #9: Net Flix Revisited

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 10 Jun 2006

I wrote about Net Flix a few months and my conclusion was that Net Flix as a program didn’t make a whole lot of sense unless you were on the extreme side in terms of watching movies. It created …

May 14, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #8: Check Your Receipt

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 14 May 2006

It was the quickest $2.60 I ever saved!

I was standing in line at Wal-Mart. The checker rushed through checking us out. I looked at the receipt after I paid and my eyes caught a duplicate entry. My wife had bought …

April 24, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #7: Four Free Money Saving Tools

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 24 Apr 2006

The most important money saving tools aren’t in a software bundle or book. They aren’t found in a seminar. The greatest tools are found between your airs.

A well-known financial advisor has observed, “Personal finance is 80% behavior and 20% knowledge.” …

April 16, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #6: Take Apart Your Entertainment Budget

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 16 Apr 2006

4 out of 5 Americans have Cable or Sattelite TV in their homes. Commercials talk about how they’ve got something for the whole family. The value of the package is built up as people often shell out as much as …

February 12, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #5: Prepaid Legal Examined

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 12 Feb 2006

This week I’m going to take a look at the popular: Prepaid Legal which may make sense for you or it may not. Prepaid Legal is legal insurance in essence, similar to Health Insurance. Is it good idea? In …

February 5, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #4: Do Online Movie and Music Programs Make Sense?

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 05 Feb 2006

For this week’s Money Saving Chronicles, I decided to examine two different popular services that are huge online to find out if they actually save you money.

Lets go ahead and get started with Netflix the internet’s biggest …

January 29, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #3: Check Those Add-Ons

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 29 Jan 2006

If you decide you need some service, check with the companies you already do business with, you may be able to get it through them.

One key example is that last year, …

January 22, 2006

Money Saving Chronicles #2: The Frugal Mind

Filed under: Money Saving Chronicles - 22 Jan 2006

Yogi Berra once said, “Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half’s physical.” The same thing is true about saving money and frugality.

Its possible for anyone to run around to different stores and find cheap stuff online, but we rarely …