Home, Cheap Home: The Chandelier

If you like what you read, then subscribe to our feed! I’m married, and naturally, that means there will be disagreements, compromise, and surrender.  I’m also a home-owner which means there will be various household decorating ideas, and those get expensive. My wife wanted this chandelier (pictured to the right) from JC Penney.  This Chandelier … Read more

America’s Cheapest Family

If you like what you read, then subscribe to our feed! This is Steve (Top Row Right), Annette (Bottom Row, Second From Right), and their kids and they are “The Cheapest Family in America.”  What makes this family the cheapest family in America?  Here is a short snippet from their website: Steve worked as a … Read more

Home, Cheap Home: The Dimmer Switch

Update: Because of a high number of email requests, we are including some Amazon links to the switch we used (which is pictured to the right), and some other common types made by the same company.  We’ve had a great experience with the toggle dimmer, the reviews look pretty good for the other two as … Read more

Make Soda Free

Continuing our Cheaper Gatherings series we discuss how you can get soda more cheaply, or completely free by exploiting loyalty programs. This compliments our article on Buffalo Wings quite nicely! We may be anti-junk food in general, but some people just really enjoy their one little splurge: soda.  So we have some ideas that will … Read more

Cheap Chicken Wings – 5 Awesome Tips to Get Your Wing Fix

Fiery, red-orange chicken wings on a plate with a black cup of bleu cheese sauce and bright green celery sticks.

Chicken wings are delicious, but their rise in popularity has lent them to becoming quite expensive. Actually, chicken wings became more expensive per pound than chicken breast for the first time in history. Not bad for a piece of chicken that was considered a throw-away piece in recent history! So, how can you save money and … Read more

Is That Cell Phone Necessary?

  Wait – What? Hello? Are You There? If you find yourself saying this multiple times a day, then you are probably a cell phone user.  Don’t worry, you’re not alone, but there should be a question that you are asking yourself: is it necessary? Yes, in the past we have written about cutting off … Read more

Should I Buy A Used Car?

How Much For Your Headache? The common misconception about used cars is that you’re just buying someone else’s headaches.  There are a few ways to avoid purchasing another person’s headaches which we will highlight below. This particular rumor finds itself grounded in the truth of history, but it has since become a truth of the … Read more