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Travel Savings Strategies

Choosing to fly during the off-season is an easy way to save money; however, there are many other ways you can pad your wallet when your travel plans take you to the airport.  The key to saving big is a little pre-flight strategizing. For example, if you only fly on commercial airlines a few times a year, you may have a hard time justifying the costs associated with an airport lounge membership.  Still, it’s hard to resist the comforts and services provided at these luxurious airport hangouts. Some of the perks of lounge membership include: Peace and quiet:  Most airport … Continue reading →

Seven Ways to Enjoy Movies on a Budget

In a tight budget, entertainment is usually one of the first line items to go, or at least to be reduced drastically. One of the favorite ways that most of us entertain ourselves is through television or movies. Here are seven ways that you can enjoy movies, even when you are on a budget. 1. Free Rentals. Redbox, the movie rental machine that is available at many grocery stores and drug stores offers movie (and game) rentals for $1 or $2 a night. This is inexpensive in itself, however, the company also offers Redbox coupon codes that can be used … Continue reading →

Keeping Costs Down

Scrapbooking is not a cheap hobby. However, there are ways you can reduce the price of creating elaborate memory albums. The key to keeping costs down is to round up as many free items as possible. These days that task is becoming increasingly easy, as more and more scrapbook supply manufacturers are offering freebies online. While many die hard scrappers shy away from digital elements, it’s possible to save hundreds of dollars turning online supplies into hard copy materials that can be used in traditional albums. For example, I am not a huge digital scrapbooking enthusiastic, but I will frequent … Continue reading →

Tired, So Very Tired

I just read an article that said people spend and average of 673 hours per year doing housework. No wonder I’m so tired! If you break it down it doesn’t seem like that much. It’s about 13 hours per week or 1.85 hours a day. When you look at it that way, it’s easy to see where the time goes. When you come home from work the housekeeping begins, you check the mail, sort and deal with that, let the dogs out, start dinner, throw in a load of laundry, hang up the kids jackets, unload the dishwasher, help with … Continue reading →

Newer is Not Always Better

If it seems like some of your small appliances do not last as long as the ones that you remember your parents having, or even the ones that you had for years before you bought those shiny new replacements, you are probably right. It is true that at least for some items, they really do not build them like they used to. If you are lucky enough to have some of these items in your attic (or basement), you may want to give them a second chance before getting rid of them and buying a newer model. Furniture is one … Continue reading →

What Technologies Are Useful to You?

One reason that it is important for home-based professionals to stay abreast of changes in technology is so that we can decide whether each new thing that comes along is something that we want to incorporate into our business or whether it is something best left for other people. Each technology that comes along is only useful to any home-based professional if it truly helps them to run their business better. Anything else is best left for someone else for whom is actually useful. A couple of years ago when we moved to our new home, we were researching what … Continue reading →

Luggage Graveyard

Scottsboro, Alabama. Ever been? If you are looking for lost luggage you may want to book a trip, pronto. In a previous post I shared my lost bag story of woe. At the time I was wearing my aunt’s clothes while the carrier tried to find my electric blue suitcase, I never dreamed that my bag could end up in a 40,000-square-foot structure along a dusty country road in Alabama. But alas, Scottsboro is where many lost bags come to die… or find new owners courtesy of rock-bottom prices. The southern city is home to the Unclaimed Baggage Center, a … Continue reading →

Save Money On College Textbooks from Barnes & Noble

There are many expenses that go along with attending a college or university. There are tuition bills, fees for classes, and meal plans to be paid for. College students may need new bedding, or a new computer to take to school with them. The one thing you can be certain to save some money on are textbooks. Right now, Barnes & Noble can help you do that. Barnes & Noble is having a sale on college textbooks. I would highly recommend using their website to place your order, instead of walking into the stores. As a former Barnes & Noble … Continue reading →

Throwing a Green Birthday Party – Part 1

My son recently had his sixth birthday and we had the party at the local bowling alley. However, it wasn’t very green. The bowling alley supplied paper plates and cups, but I doubt they were recycled afterward. If you are having a child’s birthday party soon and would like to green it up, check out some of these tips: Earth-Friendly Birthday Party For some reason, when I plan my son’s birthday party, I think of Chuck E. Cheese, the bowling alley, or the local laser tag place. But, he’s 6 – what does he love most in the world? Bugs, … Continue reading →

Traveling Books or How the Digital can Suppress

I’m so concerned with and interested in new technologies that I often ignore older ones to my peril. This semester I’m working on a number of projects surrounding the use/abuse of copyright law as applied to the arts. Since my study isn’t confined to the twenty first century (or even the twentieth century for that matter) it would be unwise to rely entirely on the internet for securing resources and conducting research. This past week I used one of the tools I’d forgotten libraries had the ability to use: mail (and not the e-mail kind). Earlier this week a real, … Continue reading →