A Day Late and A Dollar Short-This Weeks Festival of Frugality

Sorry folks, I was off my game yesterday and didn’t get my weekly review of the Festival of Frugality up. I guess the fact that it turned into summer OVERNIGHT just messed me up 🙂

This weeks Festival of Frugality is over at “The Mighty Bargain Hunter“. As always, all 26 entries are worth reading, but here are just a few of my favorites (besides my own entry on end of year teachers gifts).

Frugal Reflections has a nice article on “Five Ways To Be A Frugal Shopper“. For some of you longtime frugalities, it may be old hat, but it has some good info for those of us, like the author, who are not always as frugal as we think we are.

Jack Yoest has a short little article (more like a photo series) on some cheap automotive work with his son. This one might not actually give you much in the way of tips, but I thought it was interesting that it came from a non-frugal, non-personal finance blogger, and also that he was a former Cav. officer in the Army. 🙂 Plus, it is nice to see a father having his son get involved in something like autobody repair-teach ’em young I say!

My 1st Million at 33 (love the name!) has an entry on checking your grocery receipt. I can vouch for this one-I still remember the time when I was in highschool when the cashier accidentally rang up a bag of Kiwi’s for $33!! My dad caught that one (and made one of us watch the register when the groceries were being rung up every time after that as well as checking the receipt when we got home).

The Family CEO has a new (hopefully to be weekly) Feature called “Take Stock Tuesday“. She will be posting her savings/frugal acheivements for the previous week and the goals for the coming week. This is a great idea for giving yourself some accountability! I’d love to hop on the train, but usually I do this Festival Roundup on Tuesdays, and the Works for me Wednesdays. . . . we’ll see if I can squeeze out 2 Tuesday posts 🙂 I encourage you all to join in on the fun, steal a copy of her graphic and post next Tuesday. Then shoot her an email/post a comment so she can let everyone know.

Blueprint for Financial Prosperity has the list of all sales tax free days for 2006. I didn’t know that NY was sales tax free on 8/4-8/6 on all clothing, shoes, clothing material, and diapers! Good stuff to know. Go on over and check out what days are tax free in your area (unless of course you live in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon which never have state sales tax).

JLP over at All Financial Matters has been creating a ton of great calculators lately (go check them all out). This week he premiered his college tuition estimator. Anyone with a couple of kids to save for should find this useful.

Have fun reading.