Savvy Saving Bytes

When I was a fashion illustrator, one of my models, looking as usual like a million bucks, told me that she usually shopped for clothes in thrift shops. With that knockout recommendation, I finally ventured into a Goodwill thrift store in my neighborhood, plucked a navy blue Christian Dior blazer with a $6.00 price tag [...]

In a national AOL survey asking women if they would rather save $50 a week or have sex more often, the majority of women answered, “I’ll take the $50, thanks.” Eight of nine New York women polled by the Daily News agreed. In these tough economic times, they said money was definitely a priority over [...]

I was surprised to hear Oprah Winfrey, who seems über-tuned in to just everything in this country, recently admit on her show that she was unaware libraries loaned out movie CDs for free. For all those also not in the know, or who haven’t hit a library since their school days, these citizen friendly media [...]

I didn’t want to be a blimp. Or a semi-blimp…or anything in the blimp family. Blimpdom doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with a pressing, sudden need for clothing in a larger size. And then one day that larger size is squeezed to the limit and a still larger size is required. And on and on [...]

Ever get the feeling that some sales clerks consider questions from customers to be major intrusions into their real job–which is to take our cash at top speed and shove us out of the way for the next customer’s money. Recently I came across such a clerk when I decided to buy a digital camera. [...]

Here was my dilemma. I needed a napkin holder, but in stores all the napkin holders looked a little too hokey to me. So naturally, I was far from delighted at having to spend money for something I didn’t like in the first place. I took a little cruise around the apartment. What could I [...]