50+ Frugal Tips, Ideas, and Resources

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. FruWiki, The Frugal Wiki
  4. 17 Ways to Get Free Books at The Frugal Panda
  5. Wise Bread: Personal Finance and Frugal Living Guide
  6. 101 frugal Christmas present ideas at Plonkee Money
  7. Frugal Cuisine: Recipes for a 3$/day budget; Chinese snacks and street food
  8. What is Frugality and Are We Frugal? at Gather Little by Little
  9. 30 Frugal Gift Ideas to Show You Appreciate Someone at Zen Habits
  10. What Does Being Frugal Mean to You? at Cash Money Life
  11. ThriftyFun: a site where regular folks can share their knowledge and ideas
  12. Frugal Lunch by Clever Dudette at Clever Dude
  13. The Frugality Cheat Sheet: 147 Tiny Tips to Live Healthier, Happier, Greener and Better at Frugalist
  14. Festival of Frugality
  15. The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living at Zen Habits
  16. Frugal Living at About.com
  17. All Things Frugal: Home of The Pennypincher & The Tightwad Tidbits Ezines
  18. Top 50 Frugality Bloggers at The Frugal Panda
  19. What I Do to Live Frugally at Grad Money Matters
  20. Vinegar Uses In Garden at Frugal Gardening
  21. The Dollar Stretcher: Living Better for Less
  22. Ultimate Frugality – The Best Free Software For Windows at My Two Dollars
  23. Stay at Home Moms: Money saving ideas for frugal stay at home moms
  24. How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week at Get Rich Slowly
  25. Frugal Village
  26. For the Frugal Mind: Cheapest days to shop at Everything Finance
  27. Living a Better Live: The Free Money Saving Tips Ezine
  28. Stop Frittering Away The Fruits Of Your Frugality at The Dough Roller
  29. Miserly Moms Frugal Recipes
  30. Can You Devote Fifteen Minutes A Day To Frugality? at The Simple Dollar
  31. Hillbilly Housewife: Low Cost Home Cooking from Scratch!
  32. 8 Lessons I Learned From The Cheapest Family In The Nation at The Digerati Life
  33. Tipking: Household tips, handy hints, and frugal ideas
  34. The Frugal Duchess: a fun, frugal & fashionable way to save money & live well
  35. The Simple Living Network
  36. 63 Gift Ideas for Under $10 – For Any Occasion of the Year! at Living a Better Life
  37. Frugal Hacks
  38. 106 Money-Saving Tips for a Frugal Lifestyle at Zen Habits
  39. Frugal Upstate: Frugality as a Conscious Way of Life
  40. Fabulous Food from Frugal Folks: a blogger cookbook in progress at My Open Wallet
  41. 180 Money Saving Tips to Turn Your Financial Life Around 180 Degrees at The Frugal Law Student
  42. Frugal Living Forums at Frugal Village
  43. 12 Frugal Exercise Ideas at The Bargainist
  44. Cheap versus frugal at I Will Teach You To Be Rich
  45. Crossing the Line: When does frugal become cheap? at Being Frugal
  46. Frugal vs. cheap at Blunt Money
  47. Experiments in Frugality: Disaster Number One at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
  48. Top 10 Frugal Living Blogs at Rather Be Shopping
  49. Being Frugal isn’t Being a Miser at Credit Withdrawal
  50. 100 Things you can make yourself at Simply Thrifty
  51. Freecycle: changing the world one gift at a time
  52. 5 Easy Ways To Apply Frugality to Your Investment Decisions at Chance Favors
  53. 75 Frugal Hacks for Your Home at Being Frugal

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16 Comments

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    Lynnae @ Being Frugal.net
    January 31, 2008, 7:06

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

    Thanks for including me!

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    Randall
    January 31, 2008, 7:34

    Wow! Great list. Thanks for the inclusion.
    :)

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    David
    January 31, 2008, 8:17

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

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    Patrick
    January 31, 2008, 8:59

    Great list. Thanks for the mention. :)

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    RacerX
    January 31, 2008, 18:35

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

    Thanks!

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    glblguy
    February 1, 2008, 4:20

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

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    Pinyo
    February 1, 2008, 9:23

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

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    CiaranFromChance
    February 2, 2008, 14:54

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

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    Frugal Duchess
    February 5, 2008, 17:30

    Thanks for including me on this terrific list!

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    Pinyo
    February 5, 2008, 21:34

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

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    Momma
    February 6, 2008, 10:33

    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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    Jenn @ Frugal Upstate
    February 11, 2008, 18:14

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

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    master your card
    March 10, 2008, 4:30

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

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    The Bill Manager
    May 27, 2008, 16:03

    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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    SThomps
    December 21, 2008, 22:53

    Excellent article!

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

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    Marlene Affeld
    April 1, 2009, 15:08

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

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