50+ Frugal Tips, Ideas, and Resources

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

Pinyo is the owner of Moolanomy Personal Finance and an entrepreneur with over 20 years of business experience. He is interested in business management, investing and wealth management. He has written for many online publications, including American Express Currency and U.S. News Money. You can follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

Add Your Question or Comment (16 Comments)

1. Lynnae:

   January 31, 2008 at 7:06 am

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

   Thanks for including me!
2. Randall:

   January 31, 2008 at 7:34 am

   Wow! Great list. Thanks for the inclusion.
   
3. David:

   January 31, 2008 at 8:17 am

   Great set of tips and links Pinyo, thanks for including me!
4. Patrick:

   January 31, 2008 at 8:59 am

   Great list. Thanks for the mention.
5. RacerX:

   January 31, 2008 at 6:35 pm

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

   Thanks!
6. glblguy:

   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.
7. Pinyo:

   February 1, 2008 at 9:23 am

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

   February 2, 2008 at 2:54 pm

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

   February 5, 2008 at 5:30 pm

   Thanks for including me on this terrific list!
10. Pinyo:

    February 5, 2008 at 9:34 pm

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

    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!
12. Jenn:

    February 11, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Thanks for the link love! It’s great to be included in such wonderful company.
13. master your card:

    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!
14. The Bill Manager:

    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.
15. SThomps:

    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!
16. Marlene Affeld:

    April 1, 2009 at 3:08 pm

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