Thanksgiving is one of those occasions when one could feel like you have no alternative to spending money. If you’re going to travel, you’re traveling on an insanely busy weekend. If you’re hosting the dinner or overnight guests, you have to plan for a bigger grocery bill.
But do not spend more money than you need [...]

I didn’t find much to cheer about when gas prices started to go down. By that time, my family had too many other financial headaches to worry about.
Apparently, a lot of you felt the same way. Ira just sent me a link to a recent retail study that showed consumers who were surveyed in late [...]

Deputy Headmistress posted at Frugal Hacks about a recipe site called Supercook … so I just went over to check it out.
This is a very cool site for those of you who need to, or have decided to, cook from home more often.
Supercook is a free recipe search engine. It’s funded by advertisers who like [...]

My husband and I went to Ohio this afternoon to visit family, and noticed while we were along on our travels that gas prices are starting to inch back up.
CNN has this report – Uh-oh: Gas prices on the rise.
A snippet:
On Friday, Jason Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy in Minneapolis, warned that gas prices may be [...]

Today’s Monroe, Mich., gas prices posted at Michigan Gas Prices are ranging from $1.57 to $1.69.
While I haven’t found much to celebrate about the falling gas prices because of other economic chaos of the past few weeks, the fact is families on a budget may want to start thinking about opportunities that have been on [...]

Trent at the Simple Dollar has this post – Cutting down on the hidden cost of after-school activities.
A snippet:
On your way out the door, fill a thermos with soup and pack a sandwich and a piece of fruit or a granola bar for your child. This can provide a nice energy boost when your child [...]

Most of the national news media picked up on this story, and here is the Associated Press story at the Detroit Free Press: Consumer prices plunge in October.
A snippet:
The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices fell by 1% last month, the biggest one-month decline on records that go back to February 1947. The drop [...]

One of my co-workers just walked in and said she bought gas for $1.95 a gallon.
Michigan Gas Prices is posting price ranges of $2.01 to $2.14 for the Monroe area, but some of those prices are from Thursday night.
Yes, I did notice when I put gas in the car Wednesday that the price had dropped [...]

Yeah, I saw that headline too at CNN.
The MonroeTalkers are chatting about “Oil prices drop, but the high prices remain the same.”

The Monroe Evening News has this report today: Taking the bus.
A snippet:
“We are seeing ridership with a steady increase,” said Mark Jagodzinski, general manager of Lake Erie Transit. “Systemwide, we’ve seen a 4 percent increase over the past two months. The fixed-route system increase is actually 7 percent over two months.
“A 7 percent increase in [...]