The economy is still in poor shape, despite efforts to stabilize and strengthen it. As of April 2013, as many as 21.5 million Americans are still unemployed or underemployed. The number of citizens relying on food stamps has increased by 46%. Worse: 50 million Americans now live below the poverty...
Tag archives: frugal
In these changing and difficult times many of us have no choice but to try to live as frugally as we can. Living frugally helps us spend less and save money that can go into our savings or into paying off debt. Here are 10 ways to live frugally and...
Road Trip As a kid the vacations my family went on were very inexpensive road trips. Some years we simply did a one day trip to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio where we would spend all day on the amusement park rides. I loved, loved, loved them!! Other years my...
The Dollar Store and Friday's Circle of Friends - March 9
Written by on March 9, 2012 in Circle of Friends .
Winter is Here After having somewhat of an unusually mild winter we definitely received our share of snow this week. I was out shoveling Monday afternoon only to wake up Tuesday morning and find the driveway and side walk covered with at least 5 inches of new snow. The ski ...

