5 Surprising Ways to Save Money This Year
By Leah Ingram
 
If you’re still unsure how to cut your spending in 2010 but still live the good life, here are five (of the hundreds of) money-saving tips from my new book Suddenly Frugal: How to Live Happier and Healthier for Less (Adams Media, 2010).
 
1. Limit grocery-shopping spending [...]

Do you live with stacks and piles of papers scattered like confetti all over your home? This usually happens for two reasons: you have been avoiding the decision making process and/or you haven’t created a specific spot for each piece of paper you know you must keep. The fix is a fairly straightforward one: [...]

Budgets aren’t the only scary aspect of organizing your finances. A big area of self imposed mystery are credit cards. Do you know, for example, exactly how much you owe on your cards? Do you know how many cards you have? What about the interest rates you pay? Are you aware [...]

We heard some very good responses to last week’s “Coupon Mom” post. She does answer many of our questions regarding buying staple items such as bread, meat, and eggs in her book. She suggests, for example, buying meat in bulk and freezing. Another tactic is saving a little by not buying the [...]

Last post I mentioned the advice of packing a lunch in order to save money. Well before you can pack a lunch, you still have to buy the materials. Here is a video from “The Coupon Mom” Stephanie Nelson giving us advice on how to reduce our grocery bill by utilizing coupons. (Love [...]

Thank you to David Bach for his advice on starting over this New Year.  He will be sharing periodic guest posts with us throughout the month and this Friday (01/08/10) he will be participating in a live chat on Borders Face book page from 11-1pm EST to answer our questions.       
            Many of you posting [...]

Well, its January 4th; time to start putting money back into my wallet.  From the responses thus far it appears we will have many people along for the journey—great; it will be imperative for us to share what tactics are working and to be able to discuss the difficulties.  Speaking of comments from fellow participants, [...]

What strategies and money-saving tactics can be implemented in order to reduce one’s monthly spending by $300 and not incur any drastic change in lifestyle (other than having an extra $300 on hand)? That’s my challenge.
Being an employee of Borders, I am fortunate to have access to the latest thinking in personal financial guidance through [...]