A Frugal Weekend

We went to Molly Cool's for fish on Friday using a groupon-it alsmost covered the bottle of wine with dinner. :) Then we went to a free French film at UWM. Splurged on the popcorn-reasonably prices at $1.50. Saturday we went to see the Oscar nominated animated shorts-$6 for seniors. Went to dinner after, no groupon unfortunately, but a great dinner at Canaveral on 26th & Greenfield, the old Benjamin Briggs. Finished off the night with sparkling wine at Thief Wine in the public market with a gift-certificate. Sunday was the opera in Chicago. I found a cheap (for Chicago) parking garage at $10. After the opera, went to a BYOB place, where we saved lots of money bringing our own wine. Tonight Roger is going to a concert, so I'm going to a friend's condo for pizza-which he's picking up. Free pizza in wine-excluding car fare. :)

How to live well on $40,000 or less

This is also a good article. It explains my basic philosophy and what I'm striving for.

http://money.msn.com/how-to-budget/how-to-live-well-on-40K-or-less-freedman.aspx?gt1=33029

40 Most Useful Travel Websites That Save You Money

This seems like a good resource for future travel arrangements. We'll see if I actually take advantage of any on my next trip. ;)


http://www.wisebread.com/travel-resources

A Frugal & Spendthrift San Francisco Vacation

Well it was both last week in SF. We went to free museum days, but spent $9 on parking and $10 on the special exhibition. We rented a car and also used mass transit. I used a voucher to fly home, but paid $500 for a ticket out to California. Hmm, we have to be much more frugal on our next vacation. Maybe a New Year's resolution?

Festivus For the Rest of Us

We went to the Art Museum last night for their MAM After Dark Festivus celebration. Free appetizers. We wrote out our grievances and posted them. We had a weight-lifting contest for our 1st feat of strength-I won. Then we played WII-bowling and Roger won. We passed on the Sumo wrestling and thus had a tie. After, we went to the Noble-a new retro restaurant and shared a pizza and some inexpensive wine. Tonight's a free party in BayView. I'm sending out free Xmas cards-the ones charities try to guilt you into buying-I just use them and their mailing labels. I give money to the charities I pick!

30 Tips to Spend Less and Save More

This was a great, common sense article from Yahoo! Finance. How many of the suggestions can you use?

Happy Halloween!

Well, I was trying to take a nap, but the MKE trick or treaters are out in force. Luckily I stopped by Pick N' Save and picked up some candy. I went with the cheaper generic candy, but didn't want to disappoint the kiddies. We went to a costume party last night-we brought a bottle of wine and munched on free food and had free mixed drinks. The costumes were recycled from last year's $10 costume purchased at a clothing store that was going out of business. Tonight is Ned's house for a pasta and sardine recipe he wants to try on us-he recently went to Italy and is trying out some dishes he had there. A cheap finish to a relatively cheap weekend-the major cost was on Friday: we used a Groupon at Transfer which helped offset the bottle of wine we had with our pizza-well we had to have wine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-6XxF2Ul2g

I never drink...wine