49 Frugal Living Tips and Ideas

By Pinyo, on January 31, 2008

I 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):

1. Being Frugal: Making Every Penny Count
2. Frugal Living by Money Ning
3. 17 Ways to Get Free Books at The Frugal Panda
4. Wise Bread: Personal Finance and Frugal Living Guide
5. 101 frugal Christmas present ideas at Plonkee Money
6. Frugal Cuisine: Recipes for a 3$/day budget; Chinese snacks and street food
7. What is Frugality and Are We Frugal? at Gather Little by Little
8. 30 Frugal Gift Ideas to Show You Appreciate Someone at Zen Habits
9. What Does Being Frugal Mean to You? at Cash Money Life
10. ThriftyFun: a site where regular folks can share their knowledge and ideas
11. Frugal Lunch by Clever Dudette at Clever Dude
12. Festival of Frugality
13. The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living at Zen Habits
14. Frugal Living at About.com
15. All Things Frugal: Home of The Pennypincher & The Tightwad Tidbits Ezines
16. Top 50 Frugality Bloggers at The Frugal Panda
17. What I Do to Live Frugally at Grad Money Matters
18. Vinegar Uses In Garden at Frugal Gardening
19. The Dollar Stretcher: Living Better for Less
20. Ultimate Frugality – The Best Free Software For Windows at My Two Dollars
21. Stay at Home Moms: Money saving ideas for frugal stay at home moms
22. How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week at Get Rich Slowly
23. Frugal Village
24. For the Frugal Mind: Cheapest days to shop at Everything Finance
25. Living a Better Live: The Free Money Saving Tips Ezine
26. Stop Frittering Away The Fruits Of Your Frugality at The Dough Roller
27. Can You Devote Fifteen Minutes A Day To Frugality? at The Simple Dollar
28. Hillbilly Housewife: Low Cost Home Cooking from Scratch!
29. 8 Lessons I Learned From The Cheapest Family In The Nation at The Digerati Life
30. Tipking: Household tips, handy hints, and frugal ideas
31. The Frugal Duchess: a fun, frugal & fashionable way to save money & live well
32. The Simple Living Network
33. 63 Gift Ideas for Under $10 – For Any Occasion of the Year! at Living a Better Life
34. Frugal Hacks
35. 106 Money-Saving Tips for a Frugal Lifestyle at Zen Habits
36. Frugal Upstate: Frugality as a Conscious Way of Life
37. Fabulous Food from Frugal Folks: a blogger cookbook in progress at My Open Wallet
38. 180 Money Saving Tips to Turn Your Financial Life Around 180 Degrees at The Frugal Law Student
39. Frugal Living Forums at Frugal Village
40. 12 Frugal Exercise Ideas at The Bargainist
41. Cheap versus frugal at I Will Teach You To Be Rich
42. Crossing the Line: When does frugal become cheap? at Being Frugal
43. Frugal vs. cheap at Blunt Money
44. Experiments in Frugality: Disaster Number One at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
45. Top 10 Frugal Living Blogs at Rather Be Shopping
46. Being Frugal isn’t Being a Miser at Credit Withdrawal
47. 100 Things you can make yourself at Simply Thrifty
48. Freecycle: changing the world one gift at a time
49. 75 Frugal Hacks for Your Home at Being Frugal

Leave Your Comment (17 Comments)

1. Lynnae says:

   January 31, 2008 at 7:06 am

   Great list! And you know I’m into frugal!

   Thanks for including me!

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2. David says:

   January 31, 2008 at 8:17 am

   Great set of tips and links Pinyo, thanks for including me!

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3. Patrick says:

   January 31, 2008 at 8:59 am

   Great list. Thanks for the mention.

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4. Randall says:

   January 31, 2008 at 7:34 am

   Wow! Great list. Thanks for the inclusion.
   

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5. RacerX says:

   January 31, 2008 at 6:35 pm

   Thanks for the list, I am always looking for new frugal ideas!

   Thanks!

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6. glblguy says:

   February 1, 2008 at 4:20 am

   Hey Pinyo, great resource list. Thanks for putting this together…another one being added to del.icio.us.

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7. Pinyo says:

   February 1, 2008 at 9:23 am

   Thank you everyone. But Lynnae got me beat with her 75 frugal hacks

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8. Ciaran says:

   February 2, 2008 at 2:54 pm

   Bit late here but thanks for getting me in under the wire. Great list!

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9. Frugal Duchess says:

   February 5, 2008 at 5:30 pm

   Thanks for including me on this terrific list!

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10. Pinyo says:

    February 5, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    @Ciaran and Frugal Duchess — It’s my pleasure to have your posts on the list.

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11. Momma says:

    February 6, 2008 at 10:33 am

    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!

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12. Jenn says:

    February 11, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Thanks for the link love! It’s great to be included in such wonderful company.

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13. master your card says:

    March 10, 2008 at 4:30 am

    Wow what a fantastic list. I hate spending money so I guess that I am pretty frugal already!

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14. The Bill Manager says:

    May 27, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    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.

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15. SThomps says:

    December 21, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    Excellent article!

    Good information, and success comes from many different areas, not just some get rich quick schemes!
    Good work!

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16. Marlene Affeld says:

    April 1, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Great list and great tips – thank you for sharing. Wishing you the best.

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17. Wendy Ann Tarzian says:

    January 11, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    Shop at Dollar Tree and Aldi to save money. Then go to the customer grociers for the pricy fun goods you can’t find elsewhere. Other great places to save money include Family Dollar and any store with Dollar in its title.

    Reply