I always end up overbuying Halloween candy because I always hated showing up to a house only to find out that they ran out hours ago. Consequently, I have a metric crap ton of candy left, despite a pretty good turn out.

The Frugal Urbanite household hit the point where we were so stressed doing everything frugally that we were running out of free time and something had to give or we would make ourselves miserable. The casualty ended up being coupons for a couple of...

Sorry for the big breaks between posts. It's just lately I don't feel like I've got anything to say and I hate blogs where you can tell the owner is just posting for the sake of posting. We've finished the floors on the first floor. And by we I mean...

The Consumer's Union (you know, the guys who bring you the Consumer's Report) have built a handy little website to explain how the Health Care Reform will affect people. Check It Out Here Maybe now people will STFU about Death Panels, socialism and...

We're driving the 7 hours back to Virginia today, so I probably won't get a real post up. We were up here in New York for a mini-family reunion. All of my generation decided to reproduce at once, producing 10 great-grand kids in 4 years. We're the...