50+ Frugal Tips, Ideas, and Resources
By Pinyo • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: Frugal LivingI know I don’t talk enough about frugality. May be I am not a very frugal person, although my wife always call me cheap. So I figure I would share share some great frugal ideas, tips, and resources from around the web (not in any order):
- Being Frugal: Making Every Penny Count
- 17 Ways to Get Free Books at The Frugal Panda
- Wise Bread: Personal Finance and Frugal Living Guide
- 101 frugal Christmas present ideas at Plonkee Money
- Frugal Cuisine: Recipes for a 3$/day budget; Chinese snacks and street food
- What is Frugality and Are We Frugal? at Gather Little by Little
- Frugal For Life: Experience Life By Living a Simple, Frugal Life
- 30 Frugal Gift Ideas to Show You Appreciate Someone at Zen Habits
- What Does Being Frugal Mean to You? at Cash Money Life
- ThriftyFun: a site where regular folks can share their knowledge and ideas
- Frugal Lunch by Clever Dudette at Clever Dude
- The Frugality Cheat Sheet: 147 Tiny Tips to Live Healthier, Happier, Greener and Better at Frugalist
- Festival of Frugality
- The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living at Zen Habits
- Frugal Living at About.com
- All Things Frugal: Home of The Pennypincher & The Tightwad Tidbits Ezines
- Top 50 Frugality Bloggers at The Frugal Panda
- What I Do to Live Frugally at Grad Money Matters
- Vinegar Uses In Garden at Frugal Gardening
- The Dollar Stretcher: Living Better for Less
- Ultimate Frugality - The Best Free Software For Windows at My Two Dollars
- Stay at Home Moms: Money saving ideas for frugal stay at home moms
- How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week at Get Rich Slowly
- Frugal Village
- For the Frugal Mind: Cheapest days to shop at Everything Finance
- Living a Better Live: The Free Money Saving Tips Ezine
- Stop Frittering Away The Fruits Of Your Frugality at The Dough Roller
- Miserly Moms Frugal Recipes
- Can You Devote Fifteen Minutes A Day To Frugality? at The Simple Dollar
- Hillbilly Housewife: Low Cost Home Cooking from Scratch!
- 8 Lessons I Learned From The Cheapest Family In The Nation at The Digerati Life
- Tipking: Household tips, handy hints, and frugal ideas
- The Frugal Duchess: a fun, frugal & fashionable way to save money & live well
- The Simple Living Network
- 63 Gift Ideas for Under $10 - For Any Occasion of the Year! at Living a Better Life
- Frugal Hacks
- 106 Money-Saving Tips for a Frugal Lifestyle at Zen Habits
- Frugal Upstate: Frugality as a Conscious Way of Life
- Fabulous Food from Frugal Folks: a blogger cookbook in progress at My Open Wallet
- 180 Money Saving Tips to Turn Your Financial Life Around 180 Degrees at The Frugal Law Student
- Frugal Living Forums at Frugal Village
- 12 Frugal Exercise Ideas at The Bargainist
- Cheap versus frugal at I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- Crossing the Line: When does frugal become cheap? at Being Frugal
- Frugal vs. cheap at Blunt Money
- Experiments in Frugality: Disaster Number One at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
- Top 10 Frugal Living Blogs at Rather Be Shopping
- Being Frugal isn’t Being a Miser at Credit Withdrawal
- 100 Things you can make yourself at Simply Thrifty
- Freecycle: changing the world one gift at a time
- 5 Easy Ways To Apply Frugality to Your Investment Decisions at Chance Favors
- 75 Frugal Hacks for Your Home at Being Frugal
This post was featured in:
- The Festival of Frugality #111 - Personal Finance Bowl - Introducing Team Frugal hosted by Being Frugal. For more information please visit the Festival of Frugality.

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Great list! And you know I’m into frugal!
Thanks for including me!
Wow! Great list. Thanks for the inclusion.

Great set of tips and links Pinyo, thanks for including me!
Great list. Thanks for the mention.
Thanks for the list, I am always looking for new frugal ideas!
Thanks!
Hey Pinyo, great resource list. Thanks for putting this together…another one being added to del.icio.us.
Thank you everyone. But Lynnae got me beat with her 75 frugal hacks
Bit late here but thanks for getting me in under the wire. Great list!
Thanks for including me on this terrific list!
@Ciaran and Frugal Duchess — It’s my pleasure to have your posts on the list.
I absolutely love it when my favorite blogs post lists of their favorite articles. I’ll be surfing these for hours.
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the link love! It’s great to be included in such wonderful company.
Wow what a fantastic list. I hate spending money so I guess that I am pretty frugal already!
Great list. I’ve gotten the opportunity to chat and email with some of the owners of the mentioned blogs. I’ve learned a lot from each one.