Paper airplane games are a great way for kids to have fun for free!  Entertaining the kids can be expensive some times.  Even if you do something inexpensive every few days, it still adds up.  I found that playing paper airplane games is a great way to save money and your kids will love it. (more…)

What fruit is in season is a question that people don’t ask enough.  When it comes to saving money on your fruit bill, knowing what fruit is in season is one of the best ways to cut your bill.  If you buy your fruit in season, it will only cost you a fraction of the price.  In this post, I will go over some of my favorite fruits and talk about what fruit is in season. (more…)

The new travel site Hipmunk has launched a new “deals” section of their website.  This new section allows people looking for flights (in the next 30 days) a way to save a ton of money.  All prices shown in this section are including taxes and fees! (more…)

There’s not much better than getting a Sunday paper full of coupons.  But have you ever gotten to your local Dollar Tree just to find out that they are out of papers?  Because it’s so much cheaper to buy your Sunday paper at the Dollar Tree, this happens more often than not.  But I found out that some Dollar Trees get an extra shipment of Sunday papers on Monday! (more…)

Banana ice cream is the perfect hot summer day treat.  But let’s face it… you probably don’t have a half-gallon of banana ice cream in your freezer.  This post is going to cover how to make cheap banana ice cream out of just one ingredient. (more…)

Great news to all you Google Voice users, Google has announced that they will keep Google Voice free for US and Canada calls through 2013.  Calls outside the US are still offered at huge discounts, but the core US and Canada calls will be free. (more…)

Free samples are a wonderful thing.  There are people out there that get a mailbox full of free samples every day.  There is a dark side to free samples though.  The bad part about getting free samples is the spam that you get in your email.  Here is a simple way for Gmail users to beat that spam. (more…)

If you have kids, then you have crayons.  If you have crayons, then you have broken crayons.  But instead of throwing away your broken crayons, here is what I do to make fun new crayons for the kids use. (more…)

Have you ever wanted a free sample or a coupon, but didn’t feel comfortable putting in your email address to get it?  With the huge spam issue going on today, this is a real problem.  You want the coupon, but you don’t want all the email spam that could come with it.  I have a very easy solution for you. (more…)

If you don’t have a programmable thermostat, you should really think about getting one.  The convenience of a programmable thermostat isn’t the only reason that you should get one.  You can actually save quite a bit of money with one. (more…)