50+ Frugal Tips, Ideas, and Resources

January 31, 2008 by Pinyo.

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 tips, ideas, links, and resources from around the web (not in any order):

  1. Being Frugal: Making Every Penny Count
  2. 17 Ways to Get Free Books at The Frugal Panda
  3. Wise Bread: Personal Finance and Frugal Living Guide
  4. 101 frugal Christmas present ideas at Plonkee Money
  5. Frugal Cuisine: Recipes for a 3$/day budget; Chinese snacks and street food
  6. What is Frugality and Are We Frugal? at Gather Little by Little
  7. Frugal For Life: Experience Life By Living a Simple, Frugal Life
  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. Miserly Moms Frugal Recipes
  29. Can You Devote Fifteen Minutes A Day To Frugality? at The Simple Dollar
  30. Hillbilly Housewife: Low Cost Home Cooking from Scratch!
  31. 8 Lessons I Learned From The Cheapest Family In The Nation at The Digerati Life
  32. Tipking: Household tips, handy hints, and frugal ideas
  33. The Frugal Duchess: a fun, frugal & fashionable way to save money & live well
  34. The Simple Living Network
  35. 63 Gift Ideas for Under $10 - For Any Occasion of the Year! at Living a Better Life
  36. Frugal Hacks
  37. 106 Money-Saving Tips for a Frugal Lifestyle at Zen Habits
  38. Frugal Upstate: Frugality as a Conscious Way of Life
  39. Fabulous Food from Frugal Folks: a blogger cookbook in progress at My Open Wallet
  40. 180 Money Saving Tips to Turn Your Financial Life Around 180 Degrees at The Frugal Law Student
  41. Frugal Living Forums at Frugal Village
  42. 12 Frugal Exercise Ideas at The Bargainist
  43. Cheap versus frugal at I Will Teach You To Be Rich
  44. Crossing the Line: When does frugal become cheap? at Being Frugal
  45. Frugal vs. cheap at Blunt Money
  46. Experiments in Frugality: Disaster Number One at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
  47. Top 10 Frugal Living Blogs at Rather Be Shopping
  48. Being Frugal isn’t Being a Miser at Credit Withdrawal
  49. 100 Things you can make yourself at Simply Thrifty
  50. Freecycle: changing the world one gift at a time
  51. 5 Easy Ways To Apply Frugality to Your Investment Decisions at Chance Favors
  52. 75 Frugal Hacks for Your Home at Being Frugal

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13 Comments

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

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

    Thanks for including me!

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    Randall, 31. January 2008, 7:34

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

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    David, 31. January 2008, 8:17

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

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    Patrick, 31. January 2008, 8:59

    Great list. Thanks for the mention. :)

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    RacerX, 31. January 2008, 18:35

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

    Thanks!

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    glblguy, 1. February 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, 1. February 2008, 9:23

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

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    CiaranFromChance, 2. February 2008, 14:54

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

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    Frugal Duchess, 5. February 2008, 17:30

    Thanks for including me on this terrific list!

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    Pinyo, 5. February 2008, 21:34

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

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    Momma, 6. February 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, 11. February 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, 10. March 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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