Okay back to the main topic - the Festival of Frugality.  Take a few minutes of spare time and read an article, next time you have a few spare minutes read another one.  These are fantastic posts made by REAL people like you and me.  I’m not done reading all of them yet but so far a few of them have stood out - here are my favorites: 

Saving Strategy: Eat Before You Go Out - This sounds like a good idea, why haven’t I thought of it?  hehe  I know when I have a day of errands planned, especially if I have two children in tow, it is easy to just stop off for a ‘bite to eat.’  Eating at home, before the errands, is not only going to save money but I’ll have less cranky kids - hungry kids are not conducive to productive errand-running.  Thanks for the great tip from the Million Dollar Journey blog.

10 Common Expenses To Avoid If You Want To Really Save Money posted over at Money Blue Book has some great and easy to implement ideas to help cut excessive spending.  I’ve taken notes!

We’ve had some good news in the Six Figures and Broke house, hubby had his annual review and is getting about a 5% raise.  The company he works for absorbed the increased health care costs for 2008 so we didn’t see an increase in insurance on our part.  So yay, a 5% raise - more money for our debt snowball.

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