Simply Red’s Money’s Too Tight to Mention.

It’s getting links on Twitter among the frugal living / money tweeters as a recommendation for “the recession’s official soundtrack”!

Click on my archives for Music for your mp3 player to find other money-related tunes.

And its going viral.

Detroit Free Press has a story about the song, with video. John Rich performed the tune live on Detroit’s WYCD-FM (99.5).

Susan Whitall also blogged about it at her Detroit News blog Words and Music.

Here’s John Rich’s MySpace page.

• Your Finish Rich Plan presents The overdraft fees ripoff: “Overdraft fees as they are currently applied are a very bad financial proposition (at least for the consumers) and something definitely needs to be done.” Even if the overdraft formulas are reworked, the best approach is to prevent that situation to begin with. I’m sure you can think of better places to spend that $35 or whatever bank fee.
• Keeping Feet (she’s from central Indiana) presents Subscription math: “To make Netflix worth it, we’d need to get 6 or more movies a month.” Sometimes, a la carte really is the best option.
• Not Made of Money presents Can a freezer lower the cost of your groceries? “Stocking up your frozen pantry can add up to real savings in your grocery expenses. And with an enormous bounty of food at your fingertips, you can also make fewer trips to the grocery store.” If you get a freezer for food storage, figure out ahead of time what you will do to save that investment in case of a power loss. My home had no power this week for almost 48 hours, which was enough to ruin $50 to $60 worth of groceries from the refrigerator / freezer. (Click back for those stories.) On the other hand, all of our canned and dry good surplus stayed intact.
  
• Monroe on a Budget presents New species: middle class families on tight budgets: “These are families who had good-paying / steady jobs until fairly recently, which is why they have a computer, a house and a car.” Middle-class families might be able to keep their own heads above water without formal charity or public assistance if they knew what else they could do during tight finances.

Squawkfox presents Top Ten 80s Songs About Money.

Yes, half of them are currently on my iPod.

“Ordinary Average Guy” video at VH1.

I need to download that for my mp3 player!

“Low Budget” by the Kinks.

Cheap is small and not too steep
But best of all cheap is cheap
Circumstance has forced my hand
To be a cut price person in low budget land
Times are hard but we’ll all survive
We just got to learn to economize

Read the rest of the lyrics here.

Watch the YouTube video here.