When it comes to going ‘Microfrugal’ on your groceries, switching from prepared foods to their dried counterparts can often save you a good chunk of change. Looking for a good place to start? It’s all …

Have you used sites like Expedia, Hotels.com, and Tripadvisor, but always been frustrated by the fact that you can’t use a map overlay to see how much certain hotels are in what locations? RoomAtlas might …

Frugality. As Peter Griffin’s ancestor, the great philosopher Thomas Griffin, would say, “Whyyy??”. Where did the concept of ‘frugality’ come from? And what compels us to follow it? Does frugality have origins in spiritual or …

This is going to be a fun and very revealing post. Hopefully interactive as well. Halloween is a big celebration at my place of work. It’s fun and entertaining, but it’s a hell of a …

Like many people I believed in the advice that you should rinse your hands under hot water before and after applying soap to kill bacteria. Until today, that is.
The New York Times (apparently 4 years …

I’m not trying to be all politically correct or sentimental when I say – I truly do want you, the reader and commenter, to take an active role in shaping the future of MicroFrugality.com. With …