In the next week, my boyfriend celebrates his birthday, as does my favorite cousin, an uncle and two of my college friends. I’m having a bit of a dilemma trying to decide what I should do to acknowledge their birthdays.
In grade school, I remember doing something for everyone’s birthday. We all had birthday parties, and [...]

My boyfriend and I went out to lunch on Saturday — a sort of spur of the moment thing. On our way to the restaurant, I went through a stack of coupons and managed to find one that would get us $4 off of two meals. That stack contains coupons for a lot of restaurants. [...]

I’m in the process of planning my wedding. I’ve read a lot of blogs and websites about wedding planning and such, and I keep hearing numbers that make me want to hide my head and cry.
The average wedding costs $30,000 (depending on who you talk to you, you can hear that the average is anywhere [...]

Who wants to pay full price, whether on a major real estate deal or on a can of beans? But there are only a few options to avoiding the price tag: You can wait, and hope that the price drops, taking a chance that your opportunity to buy will disappear entirely. Or, you can negotiate [...]

The Simple Dollar Get Rich Slowly (my apologies) is holding a contest to find the reader with the best story of the lengths that people will go to in order to save money. In that spirit, I want to share a couple of family stories about thrifty living.
I was in middle school before I discovered [...]