Cheapskate Digest

Libraries are wonderful places – and they’re free!

Use your local library.  Really.  What could be more frugal?  Membership is free.  They have all kinds of stuff that lots of people don’t know about – music CDs, DVDs, magazines, newspapers, phone books for other areas, and of course – books!  Picture books, novels, information books, poetry, art books, cook books, gardening books, self-help [...]

Free and Frugal Stuff on the Web

At the time the Internet first began all was free. In fact, that was the fundamental philosophy of the Internet: the formation of a worldwide group of people that would share liberally all sorts of facts, figures, programs, help, advice, and everything in between. Once big business hit the Internet, however, things have changed. Nowadays, [...]