The Thrifty Living Directory

Many of these sites have advice and links that will save you money and maximize the value of your automotive expenditures. Living with moderation doesn't only apply to your car, however. Conserve what you have. You'll have more material security for yourself while expressing generosity to your fellow creatures and the earth. You are providing a legacy for the future by not wasting what you have today.

Always Frugal Household Budget Tips from Always Frugal - Articles for frugal consumers from a stay at home mom. Topics include creating a household budget, a budget worksheet, quotes about money, and discount entertainment ideas.

BLT: Best Links and Tips A large directory of related subjects on frugality, including automobiles. The site also has an extensive collection of advice.

Champion Cheapskate Training Center Directory of links and advice on many subjects. The author also has a book and reports available on various aspects of saving money.

Cheapskate Monthly Online Tips on how to save money and get out of debt.

Consumer World This is a large directory covering all consumer related products and services.

Creative Homemaking Tips for saving money, but also suggestions for inexpenisive, artistic, decorative homemaking projects to give as gifts, etc. Has a good selection of links.

Diva Female Car Insurance UK Get cheap car insurance quotes. Diva specializes in getting women and other drivers competitively priced policies. Not only does this site have information about insurance for, I guess, female cars - as if there were any other kind - but it also has a number of maintenance tips and safety precautions geared especially, but not exclusively, for female drivers.

Dollar Stretcher Has a car care clinic with lots of Q&A's. Has lots of links to all types of sites devoted to thrifty living. Also distributes a printed newsletter with articles on cars.

Driving Away From the American Dream Author Grady Cash calculates the cost of owning a car and compares automotive alternatives in financial detail in this chapter of his book, Conquer the 7 Deadly Money Mistakes.

Fru-Gals.net A fairly new site that provides information and support in the fine art of living frugally. With discussion forum, tips, articles, book reviews and success stories.

Frugal Family Network Run by Angie Zalewski and Deana Ricks from Austin TX. Offers a paid subscription newsletter, tapes and workshops on frugality. The site has tips for saving money and links.

Frugal Life The web site archives columns from their newsletter and has a few links.

Frugal Living in the UK Lots of tips to save money around the home, on days out, in finance, little freebies and more.

Frugal Living Home Page This is About.Com's directory of thrift related links. There's an array of tips and short articles for saving money.

Frugal Tip of the Week Neil and Julie Mayo's web site has links to many other frugality related sites as well as their own content.

Frugal Village An extensive forum-site broken into many discussion sub-topics and interests such as: Coupon Trading, Bargain Bazaar, Peddlers' Courtyard and many more.

LittleCountryVillage.com Aimed toward frugal homesteading. The site has lots of links and a newsletter called Heart and Home.

Lowbudgetlife.com A wide-ranging site all about frugal living, anti-debt culture, and alternative economics.

Money Management: Living on Less Good advice in an extensive article about thrifty living from the University of Missouri.

Miserly Moms Family oriented site.

Mr. Thrifty A blog site that covers a number of topics in-depth including: buying on eBay, saving money on phone service, auto maintenance, best deals on apartments, scalping tickets, selecting a moving company and more.

Overcoming Consumerism Citizen-Activist's Anti-Consumerism site. A little on the pinko side and maybe too intense for the faint-hearted, but there's a good section about automotive costs..

PageWise Provides concise and clear answers to common questions and advice on a wide variety of topics. The site claims to have indexed nearly 100,000 articles across its network. Among the many subjects covered are money & finance, arts & entertainment, careers & job searching, do it yourself, family & parenting, fashion & beauty, food & drink, history, home & garden, lifestyles & relationships, people & culture, pets, science & technology, sports, hobbies & leisure, travel, health & fitness.

Personal Finance Web Sites Ira Krakow's directory of web resources.

SavingAdvice.com A personal saving and money management site with articles, tips, freebies, quizzes, discussion boards and more.

SimpliCity Extensive directory of simple living resources for tightwads, also covers bartering publications and environmental issues.

ThriftySave A blog site with fair number of tips and techniques for saving a buck.

UKCarinsurance Directory Especially useful for UK readers, but has quite a bit of information on the types of insurance available, proper coverages, etc., which may translate to other areas. It has comparisons and evaluations of many insurance companies' products, as well.

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