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- The Basic Law of Frugality
- Five Festive Christmas Cookies to Share with Family and Friends
- How I Cut my Comcast Cable Bill by 33% (Without Losing Any Service)
- Is Frugality a Necessary Evil?
- Creative Cleaning with Everyday Products
- The Best Pot Roast Ever: A Frugal Recipe for November
- The GRS Garden Project: October 2009 Update
- The Art of Improvising: Alternatives to Buying New
- The Pitfalls of Buying in Bulk
- Small Amounts Matter
- The GRS Garden Project: September 2009 Update
- Slash Your Grocery Bill With Store-Brand Products
- The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 20: Spending Smart with Greg Karp
- Sweating the Big Stuff
- The GRS Garden Project: August 2009 Update
- How to Shop at an Estate Sale
- Frugality in Practice: Alternate Modes of Transportation
- A Few Notes About Clotheslines
- Beyond Frugality: What I Learned from Failure
- Where to Find Free Activities and Events in Your Area
- A Visit to the Island of Misfit Foods
- How to Use Couchsurfing to See the World
- The GRS Garden Project: July 2009 Update
- Saving Money on Everyday Stuff
- Extreme Personal Finance: Daniel Suelo, The Man Without Money
- Two Frugal Summer Recipes: Thai Tuna Salad and Asian Pickles
- Our Frugal Weekend
- More Month Than Money: Tightening Your Food Budget While Feeding Your Family Well
- The GRS Garden Project: June 2009 Update
- A Day at the Community Garage Sale
- Reader Story: The Secret Millionaire and the Mathmobile
- Eating Organic on a Frugal Budget
- The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 11: Frugal Weekend Fun
- 3 Easy and Delicious Ways to Preserve Your Berry Harvest
- The GRS Garden Project: May 2009 Update
- An Experiment in Cheap Living (from 1872)
- Ask the Readers: What Makes You Feel Rich While Being Frugal?
- How to Save Money on Food: Great Tips from Three Years of Get Rich Slowly
- Learning to Do It Yourself
- How to Live Well on Less in Retirement
- The New Age of Thrift
- The GRS Garden Project: April 2009 Update
- Ask the Readers: How to Save Money on Books?
- The Secrets of Financial Freedom: An Interview with the Millionaire Next Door
- Saving Money and the Environment: Where Green and Frugal Meet
- A Very Small Adventure: Riding the Bus
- 84-Year-Old Social Worker Saves $1.4 Million
- The GRS Garden Project: March 2009 Update
- Start a SwapLuck to Share the Things You Make and Do
- A Frugal Dinner with Friends
- How to Save $100 (or More) at the Grocery Store This Month
- Oversaving Does Not Lead to Happiness
- Reader Comment: A Lifetime of Doing the Right Thing
- Ask the Readers: What Do You Do When Frugality Gets You Nowhere?
- Some Thoughts on the Return to Traditional Skills
- 50 Tips for DIY Savings Around the House
- Starting Seeds Indoors: Jump-Start Your Garden Today
- The GRS Garden Project: February 2009 Update
- Magazines (and Websites) About Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency
- Outside Looking In: How Others View Our Spending
- Books with True-Life Stories about Frugality
- Confessions of a Butcher: Eating Steak on a Hamburger Budget
- Recession Romance: Make a Delicious Valentine’s Day Dinner at Home
- Quick Tips for Eating Organic
- The GRS Garden Project: January 2009 Update
- Your Thrift Habits: Money Tips from 1948
- Which America? The Possibilities of American Thrift
- Repair, Restore, Rejoice: Making the Most of Home Appliances
- Why I Drive a 13-Year-Old Car
- The Razor’s Edge: Lessons in True Wealth
- Happy 303rd Birthday, Benjamin Franklin!
- National Thrift Week: January 17th to 24th
- 7 Tips for Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden
- Book Review: 365 Ways to Live Cheap!
- The GRS Garden Project: Winners and Losers for 2008
- In Defense of Buying Books
- Learning to Live Modestly
- December 24, 1958: A Six-Dollar Christmas
- Alternatives to Buying New
- Embracing the Thrift-Store Ethic: 18 Top Tips for Buying Used Clothes
- The Good Consumer
- How to Afford Anything (But Not Everything)
- Finding Good Wines at Great Prices: Expert Advice for Frugal Wine Lovers
- The GRS Garden Project: November Update
- Things It’s Cheaper to Do Yourself
- A Do-It-Yourself Christmas: 34 Great Gifts You Can Make Yourself
- Could You Eat Healthfully on One Dollar a Day?
- Can You Save $1,000 in 30 Days?
- The GRS Garden Project: October Update
- How Low Can You Go? Cutting Back to Minimum
- Consumer Reports Introduces Tightwad Tod
- Old Clothes for the New Year
- “Our New Bookstore is the Library”
- Ask the Readers: Favorite Frugal Christmas Ideas?
- Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less
- A Practical Wedding
- The GRS Garden Project: September Update
- Making and Doing: The Value of Productive Hobbies
- Burn After Reading: The $22 Movie
- The Power of Attentive Spending
- Frugality in Practice: Home Canning
- Fighting Food-Budget Killers
- Quick and Easy Car Maintenance: Change Your Oil and Inflate Your Tires
- The GRS Garden Project: August Update
- U-Pick: The Next Best Thing to Growing Your Own
- Energy Conservation in Alaska: What Worked? What Did Not?
- Missing the Target: Lousy Store Policies Can Thwart Frugal Intentions
- The GRS Garden Project: July Update
- Use a No-Spend Month to Become Mindful of Money
- Urban Fruit Gleaning: Harvesting Fresh Fruit in the Middle of the City
- Five Tactics for Pursuing Voluntary Simplicity
- Easy and Cheap Home-Made Bread
- Frugality in Practice: Air-Dry Your Clothes (Even Indoors!)
- Saving at the Supermarket: 15 Great Grocery Shopping Tips
- The GRS Garden Project: June Update
- Cheap Vacation: Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown
- The Art of Frugal Living
- A Small Bite: The Sensible Way to Splurge
- Frugality is Important
- The New Thrift and Seduction By Debt
- How to Make Your Own Small-Batch Strawberry Jam
- Buying Cheap Spices: Unit Pricing in Action
- Unit Pricing: Get More Food for Less Money
- Bargain Summer Vacation Destinations
- The GRS Garden Project: May Update
- How to Save Hundreds by Playing the Drugstore Game
- Use Raspberry Leaves to Make Your Own Herbal Tea
- Strawberry Fruit Dip: A Quick and Easy Recipe for May
- Extreme Personal Finance: Crissy Thompson, the Coupon Queen
- Get Quality Stuff For Cheap from Local College Students
- A Real Millionaire Next Door
- The Rise of Suburban Farming
- The GRS Garden Project: April Update
- Save Money on Food with the Sixty Minute Plan
- Oven-Roasted Asparagus: A Quick and Frugal Recipe for April
- Frugality in Practice: Turn Your Junk Mail into Garden Mulch
- Grocery Store Mysteries: Cheap Milk
- Secrets of the Extremely Thrifty
- Frugality in Practice: The DIY Footrest
- How to Get Rid of Ants (Without Calling an Exterminator)
- The GRS Garden Project: March Update
- Gourmet Cooking with 99-Cent Food?
- “Golden Boy is Slowly Dying”
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Live Frugally Without Seeming Like a Loser?
- How to Live on Less and Love It
- Cinnamon Spice Muffins: An Easy, Frugal Recipe for March
- The Lazy Man’s Guide to Groceries on a Budget
- Lessons from Literature: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The GRS Garden Project: February Update
- Frugality in Practice: Home-Based Physical Fitness
- Dumb Money: The Movie Theater
- Minimalist Meals: Fantastic Food in Ten Minutes or Less
- How to Prepare for a Baby (Without Going Broke)
- Extreme Personal Finance: America on $10 a Day
- My Frugal Valentine: Cheap Ways to Say “I Love You”
- The GRS Garden Project: January Update
- Some Thoughts on Making the Transition from Debt to Savings
- How to Cope with Frugality Burnout
- Hearty Baked Potato Soup: A Quick and Frugal Recipe for January
- The Year-Long GRS Project: How Much Does a Garden Really Save?
- A Life Well-Lived is Not About the Bling
- Penny Pinchers: Mart and the $10 Boots
- The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Book Contest
- Frugality Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Quality
- The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Guide to True Riches
- Sweating the Small Stuff
- The USDA Food Stamp Nutrition Connection
- Frugality in Practice: Keeping Warm in Winter
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Keep Frugality Fun and Interesting?
- Cheap Healthy Good
- Taco Soup: A Cheap and Delicious Use for Ground Beef
- Get More Bang for Your Buck by Using Coupons and Sales Wisely
- How Much Do Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Really Cost?
- Frugality is NOT a Dirty Word
- How to Eat at a Swanky Restaurant Without Blowing Your Monthly Food Budget
- Use it or Lose It: Getting Value from the Things You Own
- Money-Saving Ideas for Working Parents
- Extreme Personal Finance: One Month as a Freegan
- Frugality in Practice: Home-Made Grape Juice
- Baby Boom: The Shockwaves of a Lifestyle Change
- Frugality in Practice: Do-it-Yourself Home Maintenance
- How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week
- Words of Wisdom from the Frugal Zealot
- The Frugal Collector: 10 Ways to Curb the Habit
- From the Frugal Kitchen: How to Make Bread-and-Butter Pickle Slices
- 100 Things You Can Make Yourself
- Every Penny Counts: Saving for Big Goals
- 16 Ways to Eat Healthy While Keeping it Cheap
- Save on Groceries with ‘Strike-Point Shopping’
- Thrifty Tips from the Yardsale Queen
- How to Start a Family Without Breaking the Bank
- Frugality in Practice: Small Victories
- Pick Your Own: A Brief Guide to the Berry Patch
- How to Save a Dollar
- How To Escape the Gift Trap
- Extreme Personal Finance: Living on $12,000 a Year
- Simple Homemade Chicken Stock Using a Supermarket Rotisserie Chicken
- The Frugal Traveler: American Road Trip
- A Beginner’s Guide to Once-a-Month Cooking
- Christmas in June: Save Money with Homemade Gifts
- Reader Story: Necessity is the Mother of Frugality
- Student Cook: Eat Healthily on a Student Budget
- Crossing the Line from Frugal to Cheap
- Festival of Frugality #75
- Why Frugality is an Important Part of Personal Finance
- Frugality in Practice: One Man’s Trash
- Your Thrift Habits: Budgeting Lessons from 1948
- The Thrifty Food Plan Challenge: Eating Well for Less
- Easy Ways to Spend Less on Your Computer
- Frugality in Practice: Planting Time
- Frugality in Practice: A Cheap Defense Against Weeds
- The ThriftShopper.Com
- Frugality in Practice: The Garden in Spring
- Frugal Easter Egg Decorating Tips
- Small Amounts Matter
- Un-Frugal: The Curse of Forgotten Leftovers
- Save Money on Laundry Day
- Frugality in Practice: Fashion on a Budget
- How to Save for the Trip of a Lifetime
- The Budget Wino: Advice for Frugal Oenophiles
- Extreme Personal Finance: Homeless By Choice
- Save Money with a Magazine Exchange
- Voluntary Frugality vs. Frugality of Need
- Frugality in Practice: Bundle Up to Stay Warm
- How to Eat Vegetarian on the Cheap
- Rich or Poor? Sometimes It’s All in Your Head
- Gardening 101: Plan Today for Summer Success
- Frugality in Practice: Cheap Neighborhood Entertainment
- The Cost-Per-Day Expense Chart
- Making the Most of Cheap Cuts of Beef
- 10 Ways to Save Money on Books
- I Make $6.50 an Hour — Am I Poor?
- The Regift: Friend or Foe?
- DIY Microwave Popcorn
- Cheap Ways to Stay Warm this Winter
- How to Buy a Side of Beef
- Five Fantastic Frugal Tips for Christmas
- Frugal Cuisine: Eating Well for Less
- Curbly: A Community-Based DIY Site
- Ask the Readers: How to Get Started in Life?
- Cheap Clothing Jackpot
- Keep Track of Food with a Leftovers List
- Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job
- Frugality in Practice: Shopping for Second-Hand Clothes
- One Small Step
- Frugality in Practice: The Library Book Sale
- Save Money with a Frugal Buyers Club
- Money and Values: When Frugality Goes Too Far
- The American Frugal Housewife
- 20 Free Ways to Save Energy
- Just Say No (to Patronizing Ads)
- DIY: Buying It vs. Making It Yourself
- Frugality in Practice: Neighborhood Exchange
- An Introduction to Homesteading
- How to Buy a Part at the Junkyard
- Festival of Frugality #39
- On Meeting and Resisting Temptation
- Cheap Hobbies: Getting Started with Naked-Eye Astronomy
- Frugality in Practice: Canning Season
- Ten Frugal Cooking Tips That Sizzle
- How Bartering Can Save You Money
- Frugal Recipes: The Best Salsa Ever
- Raising a Family on One Income (Part Two)
- Raising a Family on One Income (Part One)
- Programmable Thermostats: A Three-Month Review
- Cheap Eats Every Day
- Frugality in Practice: Building a Cheap Personal Finance Library
- More Fun Than Dinner and a Movie
- My Cheap Uncle Norman
- Penny Pincher of the Year Award
- Pop Buys Pop (a GRS re-run)
- Reader Tip: Save Money on Iced Coffee Drinks
- How to Earn a 177% Rate of Return on BOOZE
- Plan a Weekend of Bargain-Hunting with GarageMaps
- Sometimes Free is Expensive: A Cautionary Tale
- Beating the Summer Heat for Free
- Cheap Ways to Chill Out
- Cheap Geek Tips
- A Cheaper Cup of Coffee
- Frugality in Practice: Free is a Very Good Price
- Frugality in Practice: At the Movies
- Save Money by Switching to Compact Fluorescents
- Garage Sale Bargains
- Frugality in Practice: Community Garage Sale
- Don’t Confuse Frugality With Depriving Yourself
- Frugal Recipes for Miserly Moms
- Is It Possible to Be a Frugal Collector?
- Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two-Income Economy
- The Cheapest Way to Buy Booze
- 26 Cheap Camping Tips
- Live Simple - Tactics to Improve Your Life
- Penny Pinchers: I Want My Four Dollars
- Ten Things You Shouldn’t Buy New
- My Frugal Life
- Workshops and Craft Rooms
- The Hillbilly Housewife
- Penny Pinchers: Pop Buys Pop
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget
- The Frugal Photographer
- Penny Pinchers: More Frugal Than You
- Frugality in Practice: Using the Public Library
- Save Money With Magazines
- Essential Gear for a Bike Commute
- Quick and Easy Yellow-Jacket Trap
- Frugality in Practice: Shaking That New Car Itch
- Lifestyle Trade-offs: Being Frugal While Having Fun
- Quick and Easy Self-Watering Garden Planters
- Learning to Eat More Meals at Home
- Frugality in Practice: The Lunch Special
- The Science Fiction of Coupons?
- How to Buy Nothing
- Frugality in Practice: Back Porch Furniture
- I Want a Freeware Utility to…
- How to Find Garage Sale Gold
- Nickel and Dime Yourself
- Frugal Fitness Solutions
