Saving Sense: Summer Edition

Well, it’s been about five months and I’m as broke as ever.  For any newcomers, I started this blog as a class project and am reinstating it for fun and to keep myself on my monetary toes.  Summer usually entails financial instability for me with all its tempting costly activities but this time it’s slightly [...]

Back From the Dead…

I’m back from my month long hiatus from the blogosphere. I’ve always heard it’s not wise to apologize via blog post for lack of writing but I feel too guilty for this blog disappearing off the face of the earth with no explanation to not show some sort of remorse. I’d also love [...]

The Green Valley Book Fair: Read for Less

Get excited penny-pinching bookworms of the Harrisonburg/Staunton area…The Green Valley Book Fair has opened for the final time this year.
The Green Valley Book Fair is a discount book outlet store with over 500,000 new books at bargain prices 60 percent to 90 percent off the retail cost.  The book fair provides a multitude of categories including (but [...]

Frugal Traveling

I get pretty idealistic whenever an extended amount of time off from school approaches.  I see this span of time as a golden opportunity to tour the northern cities of the East Coast, head out West and camp in the Grand Canyons, or maybe even jump on a plane to Europe.  I’ll usually find an [...]

Priceless Sunday: Why can’t we be friends?

I love being home for a multitude of reasons.  Besides getting to spend time with my family, enjoying unlimited access to food, and experiencing a regular sleeping pattern, I am graced with the presence of two dogs, two cats, and two birds (I’m starting to notice a Noah’s Arc trend here).  In my house it’s [...]

A Break to be Thankful For

With Thanksgiving upon us, many are starting to make the trek home from school to unwind and bask in the holiday spirit with family and friends.  I’ve been counting down the days till this break for a while and am elated to finally be home.  However, I’m starting to feel wary because if history repeats [...]

Craig Saves Best

Whoever said nothing in life is free really needs to check out craigslist.
Last week at a hair cuttery, a woman told me about her daughter who moved to California and furnished her entire apartment with free furniture she found on craigslist. As a loyal Ebay user, I’ve been reluctant to give craigslist a shot, but [...]

Priceless Sunday: A Physical Toll

I went down to Richmond this weekend to participate in the McDonald’s Half-Marathon. I signed up for it a month ago figuring I love running and I love McDonald’s, so why not?
Unfortunately, I had been too idealistic because there were no McDonald’s coupons in my race packet and I had neglected to train for [...]

$1 Movie Rentals

Cancel your Blockbuster membership because there is a more convenient and cheap method of renting movies in the form of a red electronic box.

The redbox is a self-service DVD vender that allows you to rent the newest releases for only a dollar.  My favorite aspect of the redbox is that they can be found in [...]

Your Closet Has Value

Two things you should know about me are that I have a passionate hate for clothes shopping and that I love getting paid for doing absolutely nothing (but then again who doesn’t).
However, with the opening of Plato’s Closet, the latter stepped up to challenge the former. Plato’s Closet, which opened last Thursday in the [...]