Financial Reflections

Personal Finance for those stuck in the middle.

Posts Tagged ‘save money’

How (My Wife) Saved 80% on Transmission Repairs

By admin • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Reflections, frugal, thrift

I own two cars, one is a cheap paid-for-in-cash ride that I use to get me to my commuter van, the other is a much newer used car, financed at a low rate through my credit union. The paid-for car has over 150,000 miles on it and the newer one has only 56,000. [...]



Multiple Benefits to Saving Money

By admin • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Budgeting, frugal, thrift

I recently wrote that I’m trying four fairly obvious, but time tested ways to save money this week. I started that experiment on Monday and I wanted to give you some updates on the results. It turns out that I’ve found multiple benefits to saving money:

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Four Things I’m Doing to Save Money This Week

By admin • Jul 31st, 2008 • Category: frugal

Have you ever had the feeling that someone’s cut a hole in your pocket and your money is slowly falling out? I’ve experienced that over the past couple of weeks, and here’s how I plan on sewing the hole shut. I’ve come up with four ways I can save money, starting right now [...]