One final tip from the latest book, New Frugality. If you can, buy college in advance.
Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of fees and tuition rose 439 percent. Even when adjusting for inflation, the increasing cost of college education is greatly outpacing the purchasing power of the dollar.
So, if it is a foregone conclusion that [...]
Another financial tip the new book, New Frugality. You’re smarter than a wall-street money manager.
Index funds duplicate the performance of a particular stock market index. The most famous equity index fund is the S&P 500. It is made up of stocks of the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies. They’re on that list because they [...]
Another tip from the new book by NPR personality Chris Farrell, New Frugality… freeze your credit card. No, not do a security freeze to prevent people from accessing your credit file, another great idea.
He means take the card out of your wallet or purse and put it in a container full of water. Then give [...]
The next few Frugal Librarian blog posts are ideas gathered from Chris Farrell’s new book, The New Frugality. Farrell is the host of the public radio program Marketplace Money.
Bud Hebeler is a retired aerospace engineer from Boeing that founded the conservative financial advice website analyzenow.com. Below are some of his top savings tips:
-Arrange [...]
Library patrons don’t often get a chance to see how the dollars and quarters accrue in their favor. Spend a couple minutes plunking in values on this Library Value Calculator assembled by several libraries across the country to get an accurate representation of the kind of value you as a consumer have reaped.
For example, if [...]
Suppose its time for that blog post again…
Our tax forms arrived a little bit late this year, but we just assembled the displays at Main and Fairmount.
Outside of the IRS office, libraries are the only place where you can get forms if for some reason you still haven’t attempted filing online. Though a slower and [...]
Victoria Moran believes that housekeeping is actually a form of affection for your home. All caregiving (for people or things) should lead one to gradually love what one cares for. Thomas More says in the introduction to Shelter for the Spirit, “Ordinary chores satisfy primal longings.”
This book is not about practical tips and tricks, or full of lists of [...]
Published by Martha Stewart, Simple Home Solutions is divided into Kitchen, Home & Garden, etc. No one produces more elegantly laid out, beautifuly lit photos than Martha herself. This is the old-school Martha, not the newer glitzier version. She was truly the master of the quietly serene way of life.
This is a timely book, because, ultimately, [...]
If you spend a little time in the regional news, you might know the spread of the Asian Carp has reached epidemic levels. It has the discriminating diet of a billygoat and the reproductive powers of a bunny rabbit. It is a hearty old beast, reaching up to 40 pounds apiece by eating nearly half [...]
City officials in Davenport, Iowa City and Cedar Rapids aren’t the only ones to be considering how to deal with the recent vogue of urban chickens. The locovore movement and a struggling economy have combined to produce the “It” Bird, as Susan Orlean calls chickens. There are those that say that the Obamas should have a few at [...]
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