by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 4, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
Besides sleeping for about 18 of 24 hours on Sunday, I also happened to rent ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’. (Ironically, the fact I did a Redbox rental among a few other things triggered a fraud alert phone call from my credit card company. They are right;...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 31, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
My friends Sean and Stacy are one of those couples who are able to save money without seeming like they are suffering. They grow their own food in a ginormous garden. They find the best stuff on Freecycle and in Uncle Henry’s. And up until two months ago, they...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 25, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
Something I’ve started doing in the last month has been really helpful, and hasn’t cost me a cent. Every night around 9 pm, I go for a walk. Sometimes I stop by a friend’s house and see if she wants to go with me, sometimes I go by myself. I may...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 7, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
My buddy Craig is the Marketing Director at a site called BudgetPulse and sent me a nice request to review the software on the site. The company has recently revamped it and he wanted to know what I thought. Personally, I’ve been a little bored with my current...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 14, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
So I have in the past prefessed my love for Hannaford’s edamame salad but my love has since turned to their seven bean variety. (Hannaford is a New England grocery chain.) But at almost $5 a pound, what’s a personal finance blogger to do? I bought half a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 12, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
I like to preface this by saying I resisted getting an email address until I was almost 18 years old. I actually even had a pen pal through high school, you know, the old-fashioned kind involving stamps and (in our case) elaborately decorated envelopes. But now, I am...
