Well, my faithful old Ipod finally bit the dust. Most of my electronics don't last three years- I'm the first to admit that I am, without really trying, rather rough on my stuff ( Read more... )

It appears that IP logging was set to log everyone. I thought I was seeing it because I'm a mod, but no. I've turned it off, but it doesn't take off the IP address of comments retroactively. So if you don't want your IP address out there, feel free to delete (perhaps even repost) your comments ( Read more... )

several years ago, i was having trouble making ends meet. i talked to my mother about this and she referred me to one of her friends, an accountant, who set me up with a series of spreadsheets that helped me get my financial information in order. it was a sobering experience, but it did what i needed it to do ( Read more... )

Most of the things I do are a bit extreme. I plan my meals for the week and budget my food money accordingly. Sooo, goto cash machine and take out only the money you budgeted for food leave cash card at home. Get you food list, get in car and goto shopping center, I live in Silver Sprung! shopping area. I goto Borders Books and browse away. I go ( Read more... )

Hiya, I'm Emily (or Nixie, I answer to either). I don't have the brainpower right now to share My Crankysaving Story, but I ran across this tip this evening and wanted to share it. It was actually on a list of decluttering tips, but it seemed appropriate for this community.

Create a 30-day list. The problem with decluttering is that we can ( Read more... )

I joined this community as well ( Read more... )

To be able to understand where our money was going, we decided to keep receipts for a month and tally it all up in categories. We planned to keep every receipt during the month of January. When I finally got through the pile, it seems we didn't do such a great job of keeping receipts. But the category totals were pretty scary. Eating out is sooo ( Read more... )

Hello, shiny new community. My name is Kaye and I'm your typical broke-ass college student. So far, my tricks relating to not spending money is flat-out not having any- I work a part-time job that pays just enough for me to cover food and utilities on a weekly basis, and that's about that ( Read more... )

Hello, I'm Corweenie ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Elle, and I created this community because I need to pay off debt, but I spend all my money every month, so all I can pay is the interest. I'm losing thousands of dollars to interest and never touching the principal. It's insane ( Read more... )