Ecofrugal Living

Back on Day 3, I named Dom Perignon as a classic example of a luxury good, costing about $330 for a 750-mL bottle. But on a milliliter-for-...

Another way the very rich are different from you and me: They don't age as visibly. Partly, of course, this is because they can afford m...

When you picture a rich person, how are they dressed? Designer labels from head to toe? According to the Washington Post (gift link) , Town ...

It was perhaps a bit misleading for me to call the theme of this year's Thrift Week "Champagne tastes on a beer budget," becau...

When you ask people to name a luxury good, many of them will probably think of traditional rich-people foods like caviar or lobster. And thi...

One of the biggest challenges of writing about frugality is that so many people associate the word with phrases like "tightening your b...

I'm always pleased when I can figure out how to replace one of the products in my personal care routine with a homemade alternative. It...

One of the keys to living a frugal life is to avoid feeling deprived . Many people seem to think that living frugally is all about "do...

I've always made a point of stressing, on this site and off it, that frugality isn't the same thing as deprivation . Ideally, in fac...

I seem to be going through a long dry spell with the Bankrate 52-Week Savings Challenge . Three weeks ago, it was making your own dog food, ...

One big difference I've discovered between having two young, active cats and having one elderly, sedate cat is that our new kitties get ...

As you know, I like to mark the changing of the seasons with all sorts of rituals—some traditional, some of my own invention. I celebrate Ch...

Last winter, as you may recall, my sister's birthday gift to me was a moka pot —a little miniature percolator that does the job of an es...