A few weeks ago, I posted about some Tips for Saving $500 on Gas and said that I would report back the results, primarily from following the tip on driving less aggressively.
In my admittedly totally unscientific test, I did get noticeably better gas mileage, though not quite 30% better. My 2001 Camry used to [...]

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Although I have a short commute, the rising cost of gas still hurts. A recent post at Blunt Money pointed me indirectly to an article at Edmunds.com on saving gas from a couple of years ago that tested six tips for saving gas to see if they really worked.
The tips were:

Driving less aggressively
Driving slower
Using [...]

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Here’s two ways to save that are counterintuitive. At first glance it seems like they’ll cost you more money, but in the end they end up helping to build your savings:

Spend part of your windfalls. We’ve all heard that we’re supposed to immediately put into savings any irregular or unexpected income such as [...]

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About a year ago, I wrote about how I was using Peerflix instead of Netflix to save money.  What I liked about it was that there was no monthly fee and I could keep a DVD for as long as I liked.  I felt it was better than Netflix in that regard, since on a [...]

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I’ve been with ING Direct for years. One of the things I like about them is the ability to easily set up subaccounts–for example, one for saving for a car, one for home repair, etc. Also, it’s easy to buy CD’s from the main account, without having to setup a whole new account [...]

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Thanks to Jonathan at MyMoneyBlog, I finally decided to switch my main rewards credit card (used for business purchases) to the Starwoods Preferred Guest Business American Express Card (the personal version of the card basically has the same features). I had been using a United MileagePlus Visa Card, which gave me 1 mile/dollar spent.  [...]

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Most of the time we know what we have to do to save money. The problem is lack of knowledge, it’s lack of discipline. When the money’s in our checking account, we spend it. That’s what it’s there for, isn’t it? Sometimes we just have to trick ourselves into saving.
Kiplinger.com recently [...]

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I’ve only been blogging for about a month, but it looks like I’ll have to retract something I posted recently. In my post on 25 Ways I Save Money, one of the ways I mentioned was using Costco. It looks like I’ll have to retract, or at least amend, that statement. The [...]

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A recent post at PFAdvice on 10 Hidden Costs People Fail to Consider reminded me of the dangers of determining affordability of a home by just focusing on the mortgage payments which have been faciliated by easy credit, low interest rates, and “innovations” like interest-only mortgages. Even if a house is affordable–that is, the bank [...]

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Last week, I mentioned that E-Loan just came out with its version of the online savings account, offering 5.50% APY. At the end of the week, Emigrant Direct LOWERED its rate to 5.05%, matching HSBC Direct’s current rate. It’s the first time in recent memory that a major online savings bank lowered its [...]

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