• Cheap Healthy Good puts on a mythbuster hat to bust modern food myths!
• Family Balance Sheet reminds us that the clearance rack is not just seasonal wrapping paper!
• Sarah at The One! gives 99 excellent tips on saving money at your wedding.

Visit the Festival to see even more great entries, and pick some favorites of your own!  Thanks for hosting the BIG list!  Now make sure to submit today to be included in next week’s edition, hosted at Domestic Cents!

If you have an FSA, make sure you know what’s going on with it.  What dates is it valid for?  Most are Jan 1st to Dec 31st, but plans vary.  How much is left in it?  Do you have a plan for using it up?  These are use it or lose it plans, so if you let the money sit, you’ll lose it – defeating the purpose of the plan.

So make sure you stay aware, stay on top of things, and stay in control – use that FSA the right way!

• Craig Ford presents How to Avoid the Restaurant to Save Money posted at Money Help For Christians.
• Mr Credit Card presents Why I Collect Milesposted at Ask Mr Credit Card.
• Peter presents How To Get The Best Deal When Signing Up For Cable Or Satellite TVposted at Bible Money Matters.
• J.D. Roth presents Pay Yourself First posted at Get Rich Slowly.
• MoneyNing presents Help Your Children Visualize Money Mangement with the Four Jars Approach posted at Money Ning.

But there is plenty for all to enjoy!  Take a spin over to the festival and find something you like.  And while you;re doing that, make sure to enter next week’s festival, which will be at Frugal Homemaker Plus!

The point is – most of us need to exercise.  So instead of signing up for the nearest gym then guilting yourself into going, find a form of exercise you enjoy.  Spending your money wisely is one of the tenets of frugality.  Maybe you’re interested in the martial arts.  Maybe running is your thing.  Maybe you enjoy kicking the ball around.  Whatever it is, look for opportunities that capture that, instead of signing up for something you hate.

Exercise comes in many forms, after all.  There’s something for everyone!

Tyler presents Quit Worrying About 80% of Your Life posted at Frugally Green.

Paul Williams presents Neuroeconomics: Helping Explain Why We Make Stupid Money Mistakes posted at Provident Planning.

Wojciech Kulicki presents Navigating The 4 Stages of New Car Ownership posted at Fiscal Fizzle.

Thanks for hosting!  Next week the Festival travels to Gather Little By Little so get your entries in!

One of the things that my spouse and I do, if we get fast food, is split a value meal and order one extra separate sandwich.  We each get our own sandwich, but we eat half the fries and drink half the drink we normally would.  It is still plenty of food and less evil calories.

But if you try this – calculate out which value meal gives you the better bang for the buck before you order.  Sometimes, there is more of a markup on one sandwich’s value meal than another.  I don’t know why, but the math doesn’t always work out evenly.  Why the fries and soda of one is more expensive than another, I don’t know.  But who wants to pay extra for the same thing!

Fast food may not be the answer – but for most of us, be it when we are traveling, or just overworked and running late, we may find ourselves there once in a while.  If you do, be smart.

• Bucksome presents How the Recession has Hit Our Family posted at Buck$ome Boomer’s Journey to Retirement.
• Kalani presents How to Welcome Overnight Guests Without Spending Moneyposted at Not Spending Money.
• Kristia presents Cold weather is coming…Seven Tips to Save Money on your Heating Bills. posted at Family Balance Sheet.
• Miss M presents A Frugal Idea Backfires posted at M is for Money.
• Baker presents Bend Over… I’ll Show You Where You Can Stick Your ‘Rewards’.posted at Man Vs. Debt.

Thanks for hosting!  Next week the festival travels to Miss Thrifty for edition #200! so get your entries in!

But I didn’t have to pay crazy souvenir prices for them.  In fact, the t-shirts were not really much more expensive than one I’d buy new at Target (if I was so inclined).  For I bought two clearance t-shirts from last year’s stock instead of the brand new ones.  It isn’t like my kids know the difference, and even if they did – why would they care?  They didn’t have a date or anything like that on them.

So if what you are looking for is something to commemorate where you’ve been, see if there are some items on clearance.  They still have the same info, just a little older model.

• Tyler presents Less is More: Embrace Sustainability and Avoid a Scarcity Mindset posted at Frugally Green.
• Shadox presents Mortgage: Every Thing You Buy Costs Twice as Much! posted at Money and Such.
• The Financial Blogger presents 2008-2009 Recession Being Good for You! posted at The Financial Blogger.
• Madison presents 5 Ways Spending More is Actually Frugal posted at My Dollar Plan.

Thanks for hosting!  Did YOU want to be a host to this enlightened festival of goodness?  Maybe you could host the historic 200th edition?  Or even #199, because yes, we need hosts as soon as next week.  Contact us today and make that dream a reality!

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