Posts by Poddi

We keep ours at 65F all the time.  That's the lowest we can comfortably go without layers.  At that temp everybody wears just one long sleeve t-shirt, and one layer of pants, plain cotton socks.  If I sit around too much...

If  you don't mind online shopping, check out Land's End clearance section.  Lots of very reasonably priced new items, and their quality is very good.  Oh I just noticed you said quality doesn't matter.  Well you...

Do any of you include school lunches in the food budget?  I heard they're very reasonably priced in US.  Over here (BC Canada) it's $5 for each school lunch, no choice or substitutions, so we never ordered any (due to food...

Our budget is $175 cdn per week.  This feeds 4 to 5 people (2 adults, boys 10 and 8, grandma stay here half the time).  I pack all lunches at home.  We eat out once a week that's not included in this.  I'm certain I...

I think so.  We get enough rebate to pay for the membership card anyway so saving money is not a big concern.  Our regular purchases tend to be:   Milk, eggs and butter Paper products like TP and tissues (I'm not...

If your jewelry is in good wearable condition you can usually sell them for higher prices than scrap gold.  They're going to give you less than the gold is worth of course because they need to make a profit.  Have them...

I pluck them at home about once a month, using twizzers.  I found a pair of good regular twizzers with grooved tips much easier to use than eyebrow twizzers.  I do have very steady, precise hands that can always pluck the...

Quote: Originally Posted by rightkindofme  Psh, in this situation I would publish those emails on facebook and anywhere else on the internet I could.  I would quite loudly announce to anyone and everyone I know...

I get the feeling that your DH is not as frugal as you are, or that you guys have different attitude regarding money?   Unless he's very extravagant, I don't see how he can squander the money if you don't want to.  How...

Well if she's gonna skip mortgage payment she'll risk losing the house anyway.  I don't think HELOC would be any riskier than not paying mortgage.