Just saw this on Digg – very neat little video covering how things would be if there were only 100 people on Earth but the percentages of things were the same (like how many people have food, money, etc.). Very interesting: have a look here. [ Report Post ]

Here’s a neat idea – even though it’s already been done on a more local level in the past. StuffUSell is a web site where they’ll come and pick up the stuff you want to sell, put it on eBay, sell it and give you over half the proceeds. It only works in the UK [...]

Back when the film Repo Man debuted in cinemas, it was considered a funny commentary on society to have generic foods on sale: Beer, Corn Flakes and other products stacked in plain white boxes on the shelves of a local store made many people chuckle. Who would have imagined that, not so very long after [...]

An extra post today, to point you to a brilliant little thought-prompter. It’s a short, 60-second animated video about the way humans destroy the planet. This came via my subscription RSS to Geeks Are Sexy. Enjoy! Humans! [ Report Post ]

If you’re going to be out and about, walking instead of driving to all those nearby destinations, why not try to include the library on your circuit? The library?! Boring, musty books and ugly old people with thick glasses muttering about the younger generation as they “tut” the sound of your every move? Libraries have [...]

Even in the modern setting of a more environmentally-conscious society, it’s frightening to see the number of people who will leave their house and get into their car to drive to a destination ten minutes away.The number of “yummy mummies”, as they are sometimes known, who put their kids in their huge 4×4 car and [...]

In our modern society, it’s easy to choose convenience over cost-effectiveness. Why bother peeling, boiling and mashing potatoes when you can buy ready-made mash to throw in the microwave? Why bother cleaning and dicing your own vegetables when you can buy them ready-prepared? Why? Because it’s cheaper to buy the raw ingredients and do the [...]

If you’ve been saving the change from your purchases for a while, you’ll find you have a great big pile of coins that it’s a real pain to actually try to use in a shop. They feed the piggy bank very nicely (do piggy banks get fatter?), but paying for $15 of groceries in small [...]

It’s an idea as old as bank notes, but it’s still a good one: instead of using the change from purchases with a note to buy something else, keep it. Put it away somewhere safe, in a tin or a Tupperware tub if you don’t have a nice, pretty piggy bank! Over time, all those [...]

Heating and electricity are so much a basic part of our lives, even in modern times when we don’t need to go out cutting down trees to make a fire, that we forget to manage them properly. Many of us ignore the costs of heating and electricity until the suppliers hit us with a massive [...]

Looking again at ways you can save money on those grocery bills, I was reminded today of another great tip when I wandered into Waitrose. One of the guys was doing their daily reductions. Have you ever looked at all the dates on food packaging? Normally there are two or three different dates recorded: “Sell [...]

Since I’m about to head out to do some grocery shopping, I thought it would be a good time to post one of my tips for saving money on just that! No matter where you live, apart from in extreme circumstances, there’s likely to be more than one place you can shop. In my town, [...]

Hello and welcome to the Frugal Living blog, here on WorldBlogosphere.com. With the world currently suffering badly from an economic downturn (some would say recession or even depression), we all need to find ways to cut costs, trim the extras out of our budget and save a few pennies. Hopefully, I’ll be able to help [...]