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Save Money on Gas
[Editor's Note: When I saw that gas prices were at an all-time high, I figured it's time to revisit this post from the past. Now I'm off to spend $3.75 $3.80 a gallon for the lowest octane gas at Chevron. Silicon Valley has it's advantages, but cheap gas isn't one of them.] Unless you’ve been [...]
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Best of Lazy Man and Money
I thought I’d take a little time today to highlight some of the more popular posts I’ve written over the four and a half years I’ve been blogging. It has nothing to do with the great traffic I’m seeing this morning from Kimberly Palmer’s article on how to make extra money. It simply seems fitting [...]
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Earning More vs. Saving Money
Last week, Ramit from penned nearly 4000 words on 5 surprising insights on earning more money. When I saw that it had A) surprising insights and B) earning more money, I rushed to read the article. In fact, I don’t know anyone who isn’t interested in those two things. Before you can get to the [...]
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Save Money on Groceries
Though prices have come down as the economy has slowed, there’s not much doubt that food is much more expensive today that it was in the past. It seems way out of line with inflation. Experts have cited many factors for this. Some say a change of eating habits in China and India towards more [...]
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Save Money with Yard Sales
When I was growing up it was practically tradition that my mom and I would spend two weeks a month going to yard sales in the summer. Maybe it was the way frugality was stressed growing up, but there was always a great emotional rush of finding something you wanted for just a little bit [...]
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10,001 Ways To Live Large on a Small Budget Giveaway
Everyone has a book nowadays. Since I’m extremely Lazy, I haven’t set aside the time to put together an ebook. Why am I taking the time to highlight and give away copies of Wisebread’s new book, 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget? There are three main reasons: They sent me extra copies [...]
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Save Money at Baseball Games
Spring is here and the baseball season is underway. Today and the next two days, I’ll be watching the Red Sox visit the Oakland A’s at the Oakland Colosseum. The tickets were around $60 a piece, but at least they are amongst the best in the house. Going to a major league baseball game is [...]
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Save Money on Medicine
I haven’t mentioned it in a long-time, but in former life (we are going back to my high school and college years), I was a pharmacy technician. I found it incredibly dull and couldn’t understand why one would ever want to make a career of it. Life has it’s interesting twists and turns and 6 [...]
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Save Money on Hotels
Next month, my wife is traveling for a pharmacy conference. Since I can work from anywhere with an Internet connection, I thought I’d follow her and take advantage of the free hotel room the government is giving her (as part of an agreement for her participating on some policy boards). Unfortunately, as the economy would [...]
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Save Money on Utilities
When I visited my family in Boston last week, Sunday surprised us with nearly of snow. It completely ruined our plans for the day. However, I couldn’t help but think about much money I spent on heat when I lived there. It wouldn’t be uncommon to have a $250 heating bill for 900 sq. ft. [...]
