June 23, 2008 by ruetheday
Mashable has a great list of fantastic sites to find cheap hotels, hostels and more for your next trip.
I personally like Orbitz and Hostelworld, but some of these I’ve never even heard of and would love to check out like CouchSurfing. Be careful when you sleep in some hostels and couch surfing spots though, saftey is priceless.
Do you have any experiences with these sites?
Category Traveling Cheap | Tags: , beds, cheap trips, couch surfing, fun accomodations, hostels, hotels, travel, Traveling Cheap, trips, vacations | No Comments
June 23, 2008 by ruetheday
Yapta has a great website where you can search for the cheapest flight amongst a variety of airlines. Once you book your flight, if the price goes down, Yapta will email you info on how to get a refund if that airline has a low-price guarantee.
Thank you LifeHacker.
Category Traveling Cheap | Tags: , airlines, discounts, flights, low cost, travel, vacations, yapta | 1 Comment
June 23, 2008 by ruetheday
The Coffee Bean will be offering free Yogurt Ice drinks in strawberry and mango tomorrow, June 24. The giveaway only lasts between 4 and 5 P.M. Locations included are the company owned shops in Southern California, San Francisco, Arizona and franchised shops in Las Vegas.
Nom noms.
Category Freebies | Tags: , coffee bean, drinks, free, Freebies, nom noms, samples | No Comments
June 20, 2008 by ruetheday
Get Rich Slowly suggests visiting your own town as a way to save money on travel expenses and lodging. It’s a great idea that can be a lot of fun. Be sure you do stuff you don’t ordinarily do though, or else it may seem like a normal weekend.
Personally, I’ve been thinking about going camping in the forest. San Diego’s pretty nice for this sort of thing because our county has so many different things to offer.
What’s worth visiting in your own city?
Category Traveling Cheap | Tags: , exploring, fun, tourists, travel, vacation, your city | No Comments
June 19, 2008 by ruetheday
If you aren’t familiar with woot, here’s the deal, they are a site that sells something different at a great price, everyday. Normally, they have one item a day until it’s sold out. Today they are having one of their marvelously fun Woot Offs! A Woot Off is where they list something new as soon as the last thing sells out. There are tons of great things, tons of random things and occassionally, a suprise grab Bag-O-Crap. What fun!
Category Saving Money | Tags: , discounts, interwebz, sales, woot, woot off, woot.com | 1 Comment
June 18, 2008 by ruetheday
The Boston Sun has an article about coupon fraud and explains why some stores will no longer honor internet coupons. You may be interested in looking at the list of places that still accept the coupons in case you’re planning to use these money savers any time soon.
Category Saving Money | Tags: , coupons, deals, discounts, Freebies, news, online coupons, sales | No Comments
June 17, 2008 by ruetheday
Getting fresh veggies can be a cheapskate’s heaven. Not only will your food taste better when it’s fresher, it almost always is cheaper. You may be wondering why that is, but frequently things are picked way before they’re ripened to get sent out to the grocery store where they charge you full price. Fresher foods need to be sold fast, so they are usually priced to move.
Earlier we discussed why growing your own garden may not be a great idea financially. Now you can get the same flavorful food you would have gotten from a home garden without the time, stress and money it takes to grow your own.
Tips Are Inside
Category Saving Money | Tags: , cooking, food, fruits, gardens, greens, groceries, nom, savings, shopping, vegetables, veggies | 2 Comments
June 16, 2008 by ruetheday
Life Hacker has some great ideas on how to keep the tykes happy for cheap. They neglected to mention one of my childhood favorites, letting the kids play drums on your pots and pans. Also, I loved playing with the dogs and dressing my poor kitty as a baby and pushing her in the stroller.
Also good are crafts like macaroni art, popsicle stick buildings, scavenger hunts, flower pressings, making collages, chalk drawings and playing dress up.
What were your favorite childhood activities that cost practically nothing?
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Category Saving Money | Tags: , cheap, children, crafts, free, fun, imagination, kids, pets, play, toys | No Comments
June 16, 2008 by ruetheday
A&W is giving out free root beer floats today between 2-8 PM. Thanks Consumerist.
Category Freebies | Tags: , a&w, consumerist, floats, free, Freebies, nom, root beer, yum | No Comments
June 15, 2008 by Jill
Looking for something to read? Boing Boing has tipped the world off to science fiction writer Lewis Shiner’s decision to put all of his novels on the net for free. The books can all be found here. Hooray!
Category Freebies | Tags: , books, free, novels, reading, sci fi, shiner | No Comments
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