How and when not to buy crap
Why Do Americans Insist On Buying Cheap Crap Instead Of High Quality Merchandise? at The Consumerist is, on its own, little more than a summary of Should You Splurge or Skimp? from MSN Money with some...
View ArticleThat about wraps up the market experiment
I spent €60 at the market this afternoon, plus €17 at my local organic butcher's, and €6 at the market yesterday during my lunch break (when there were different stalls including an organic bread stall...
View ArticleThe death of consumerism?
If you go to frugality blogs, you'll occasionally see comments from trolls telling the frugal blogger "thanks for wrecking the US economy, buddy". This was easy to ignore and be skeptical about as late...
View ArticleSome quick food/budgeting notes
This week's groceries expenses were €35 - they'll be €37 when I get the peanut butter, which I forgot. Most of my groceries were bought at the farmer's market, and because I brought a list and stuck to...
View ArticleI like Frugal Bachelor
Frugal Bachelor seems to fit the bill for a frugality blogger who is more challenging than others in terms of having original ideas and questioning the fundamental assumptions like I said I wanted to...
View ArticleGroceries, week of September 12.
Total grocery bill at the supermarket: € 14.70. Changes in behaviour: the third week into my scheme to keep the groceries budget ultra-low, I found myself keeping a running tally of the prices of the...
View ArticleGroceries, September 19, 2009
Total groceries bill this week: € 15.60. A little over the self-imposed limit, but that's not too bad as I'd just sold € 50 worth of comics an hour before. None of my food and other grocery expenses...
View ArticleGroceries, 26-9-2009, plus turntable woes.
Today's grocery bill: about € 13.50 - I managed to lose the receipt. The lowest figure so far and most of that was made up from coffee. Without the need to feed my coffee addiction and my preference...
View ArticleGroceries for October 10: pre-travel week
This week's groceries bill: €5.66. I only bought half a loaf of bread, a litre of milk, some bananas and a kilogram of tangerines. It's gonna be an unusual sort of week though. I'm leaving for the...
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