Prices Drop on Fall Fashion

Retailers slash prices, beef up sales as consumers cut back.

Frugality and Organization

Save everything.

Buy in bulk.

Find second uses for everything.

These are all powerful frugal tactics and they’ll all save you money. I’ll give you five examples.

1. Got an old t-shirt that’s worn out? Toss it into a “scrap cloth” bin and save it for times when you just need a big piece of cloth to clean up a mess or ...

10 Surefire Ways to Earn Passive Income

Everyone wants to make more money, but very few want to work more hours. The best way to work less and make more money is to learn how to generate passive income. Passive income can be described as income that is received at regular intervals that does not require a lot of work to sustain it — money that you ...

Cell Phone Contracts – How I Make Sure I’m Really Getting Good Value

I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to pin myself down to one cell phone provider after my previous contract came to an end. I’m not one for fancy cell phones so all I was really looking for was something with a reasonable amount of airtime that wouldn’t leave me out of pocket. Here are some of the things I ...

Best Money Tips: Tuition-Free Colleges

Welcome to Wise Bread’s Best Money Tips roundup. Today, we share the world of tuition-free colleges, how to decode and decrease the ER bill, and why it doesn’t matter how much you ...

10 Things the Pet Industry Won’t Tell You

Find out if your pet’s breeder, vet or trainer is biting the hand that feeds it.

Reader Mailbag: Friends

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. GTD for stay-at-home moms 2. Loaning money to parents 3. Prepaying property taxes 4. Emergency fund or debt repayment 5. Starting a Roth IRA 6. Small business encouragement 7. Thinking ahead for college 8. Out of college, ...

Five Thoughts about Making College Great

Tomorrow, several people that matter a lot to me are starting their college experience. Here are fifteen things I’d like to suggest to them that they’re probably not hearing from anyone else who has been giving them advice on college over the past three months.

You don’t have to know what you want to do right now. You’ve probably ...

5 Loan Options for Those With Good Credit

One of the nice things about having good credit is the ability to secure funds for a variety of reasons and through a variety of channels. The hard part is figuring out ...

The Simple Dollar Time Machine: August 21, 2010

Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, two years ago this week, and three years ago this week. I call it … the Time Machine.

One Year Ago ...

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