Savvy Saving Bytes

Let’s say your wallet contains a meager collection of moola. And you live in a smallish apartment or house that others call “cozy”. Or you have limited storage space—as in zero. And you need to store some items that absolutely cannot be squeezed into already jam packed cabinets, shelves, closets, under-bed-spaces and every other possible [...]

Need a new laptop? Getting low on file folders, pens, paper clips or pads, etc? If the answer is yes, now is the perfect time to buy. Stores big and small are revving up their back to school ads and promotions, offering tons of money-saving items to tempt students into their stores. And riding those [...]

With meat prices rising and bank balances hanging out in the sub-basement, some less costly protein substitutions are definitely in order. Here are four talented proteins that are super cheap, super rich in nutritional value and–equally appealing–super fast to get to the table. They are canned salmon, eggs, beans and peanuts. I have always loved [...]

If there was one thing I did not want (and my tiny bathroom certainly did not want) it was a squat, fat, pump dispenser of body lotion. Having lately taken to purchasing super duper, economy sizes of lotion not equipped with such dispensers, I needed one. But with only miniscule bathroom shelf space available, the [...]

Mostly everyone in our family has inherited the savvy saving gene. A jack of all trades who could fix anything, my father was a world class scrounger. From his travels in home construction, he carted home bicycles, games, a truck full of evergreen trees, mosaic art panels, ice skates, puppies, sleds, and a finely detailed [...]