Favorite Blogs #4

I enjoy reading Trent Hamm's Blog "The Simple Dollar".  He takes a common sense approach to handling finances for regular people.

He recently wrote a great article about traveling with children - I could tell you all about traveling with kids - but I'll spare you the details!  Or last trip ended with a marathon 16+ hours in the car!  And we all kept our sanity and our tempers!  

You can read Trent's ideas about "Saving Money on a Road Trip with Kids".

I recommend that you stop by and take a look at The Simple Dollar or add it to your blog-reader.  I think you will enjoy it!

New Feature - My Blog Reader List

If you don't know which blogs to read, I've added a new feature to the left-side column of Frugal Indy just for you!  

If you look far down on the left-side you will find the blogs that are in my Bloglines blog reader. You will find a snippet of the last post along with the title of the blog.  If you click on it you will be directed to that blog.

In the list, you will find the blogs that I check for the latest deals and coupons.  This is a good starting place if you are new to "Frugal Land".

Favorite Blogs #3

I've told you about a few of my favorite money saving blogs in previous posts here.  Today I want to share with you a blog I enjoy because it makes me laugh.  My friend, writes an enjoyable blog called "Raise Them Up".  She writes about "Finding Frugal Family Fun on the Journey of Raising Children".

Stop by her blog, you will get a laugh at her sense of humor and probably relate to the goings on at her house - especially if you have boys!

I would love to hear what your favorite blogs are.  If you have a great one for saving money or just a fun encouraging one for me to check out, please leave a comment and let me know.  I'm always looking for new ones for my blog reader!  

My Favorite Blogs #2

A little while ago I told you about one of my favorite blog resources at BeCentsable.net - their feature The Grocery Gathering.  If you did not get to read that post go here to check it out.

Today, I want to talk about the one blog that has helped me the most to learn to live in a more frugal fashion -  Money Saving Mom.   Crystal's blog was quite possibly the first money saving blog I ever read (and that was before I even knew what a blog was.)  She taught me a lot about CVS through her CVS 101 and CVS Q & A.  

So, if by chance you have not heard about Money Saving Mom, or have never stopped by to check her blog out- I highly recommend that you add her to you daily reading list!

Here are a few other blogs you will find in my Bloglines reader:

Freebies 4 Mom  - self explanatory name! 

The Simple Dollar   - straight forward financial talk.

I Heart CVS - check here for links to CVS Coupons

Coupon Cravings - deals, coupons and free items

I have quite a few more in my blog reader (Bloglines).  But that is a few you might like to check out!

If you are not using a blog reader service, I highly recommend that you do.  It is so handy that I wonder how I did it before I signed up!  My reader of choice is Bloglines,  but I'm sure there are other good ones out there!

If you are not familiar with readers,  you just enter in the blogs you want to "read" into your reader page.  Every time there is a "post" to one of your blogs, it will come up in your reader.  It makes it easy to stay on top of deals and coupons that way with out clicking around to a ton of websites!

Google Reader and Bloglines seem to be 2 favorite readers.  Do you use a reader?  Subscribe to Frugal Indy in your reader or go here.

My Favorite Blogs

I thought I would tell you about some of the great Blog resources that I use to help me with my grocery/household shopping.  I have found some great ones that I can go to and the work is already done for me!  They do a great job of matching up the sales and coupons and even show and link me to printable coupons.  

I just print what they have posted, take a look at it and highlight what I might want to pick up that week.  It saves me a ton of time scouring the sales ads.  I still take a quick peek at the ad to see if they missed anything!

One thing to keep in mind is that our Meijer and Kroger's change their ads on Thursdays.  We actually  have an advantage, because most other areas change ads the Sunday before we do.  So, if you look at the posting for Kroger or Meijer on Monday, you are getting a peek at the deals that you will have available on Thursday.  If you are going shopping Monday, and want to find out the best deals, look at the previous week's post. (Does that make sense?)  The advantage is that you can see if something you need will go on sale at the end of the week!  CVS and Walgreens change ads on Sundays so these are not affected.

One of my favorite blogs to check grocery store, CVS and Walgreens deals is BeCentsAble.  They have a feature called the Grocery Gathering where you can find pretty much any store you need.  They have several blogs linked for each store and you can click on them and check out the deals.  If you haven't checked out The Grocery Gathering I recommend it!

I'm sure there are great blogs out there I don't know about, so leave a comment and tell us about your favorite blog.   Ok, I'm sure Frugal Indy is your favorite (wink, wink) so let us know about your second favorite. =)