Festival of Frugality: Time Passes Edition

The Festival of Frugality has been around for almost 5 years (Dec. 2005) and Frugal for Life has been around since Nov. 2004, though due to a "duh-me" moment, you only have archives from Nov. 2008. Time passes so quickly and it is fun, sobering and enlightening to go over the archives and see what was important to us at the time.

For this edition of the festival of frugality I want to take a walk through the submissions in order the blog was started (based on what I could find), from newest baby blogs to the "old guy" blogs. Enjoy!
The links with a star ☆ are the articles that interested me.

flickr/cc - normanack
2010

August
The Half-Off Diet - The Frugalist Asks: Should You Throw Away Food?

June
 Spruce Up Your Finances - Understanding Tax Credits

Richly Reasonable - Money, Saving, Living, Playing -  The Problem with Easy Money

May
 My Life after Layoff - Variations On A Frugal Theme

Provident Planning - Personal Finance Bible Study: Contentment (Part 7 of 12) – Practical Applications

Debt Assistance Guru - The Insiders Guide To Cutting Your Cell Phone Expenses

April
Surviving and Thriving - The blackberry gavotte

Wealth Informatics - Taking a 401k loan – Rules and limits

March
☆ Squirrelers - Shameless Frugality or Just Plain Weird?

January
My Personal Finance Journey - "High-End" and "Value" Pricing Strategies on Consumer Goods

Control Your Cash - Lower fees through prevarication

2009

November
☆ ShopGala Blog - 16 Unbelievable Shopping Disasters Caught on Tape

Live Real, Now - Selling Your Home: The Real Estate Agent

October
Obsessed Analytic - A Personal Credit Score Designed for You

July
☆ Wanderlust Journey - Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Shareholder Benefits

Find My Car Seat - How to Save Money on Diapers

June
Rabbit Funds - HOW TO: Dejunk your home, sell stuff, and be happier

2008

December
PadBlog - Rental Insurance for Apartments – Do All Renters Really Need It?

October
Family Balance Sheet - How To Make Iced Coffee

August
Money Beagle - Don't Be Wasteful When Shopping In Bulk

Money Obedience - Save Money with 2 Rules to Negotiate for a Good Bargain

May
Passive Family Income - How to Start Saving Money on Food Expenses

February
Budgets are sexy - Don’t Know What to Make of These “Coupon Books”

2007

October
Free from broke - 9 Ways For Students To Get Textbooks For Less

August
Move to Portugal - Reader Question: Do you make your own bread?

May
Christian Personal Finance - How Do You Avoid Cell Phone Bill Overcharges?

☆ Dough Roller - Comcast Has Lost My Business Forever

April
PTMoney - Frugal Travel to New York: My $400 3-Night Trip

2006

August
My Wealth Builder - Look or Ask for a Coupon

The Digerati life - How A Good Insurance Agent Helps Cut Insurance Costs

January
Dual Income, No Kids - Should You Buy or Lease a Car

Flickr/cc - Dru Bloomfield - At Home in Scottsdale
2005 (or For-ehv-ver)

March
☆ Free Money Finance - Where You Buy Something Makes a Big Difference in Cost

Canadian Personal Finance Blog - Dumber Than Snake Mittens

February
Bargaineering - Calculate Your Monthly Freedom Day

Dewey's Treehouse - Abundance of the heart...on the many ways of looking at money

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Thank you for reading this week's Festival of frugality. Get your articles in early for next week, it will be hosted at Canadian Finance. Also, let Jim know if you are interested in hosting as well. A bit of work, but a great way to get your blog out there.
If you were included in this list, please don't forget to link back to the festival here. Thanks!

16 comments:

  1. Looks like we win the Old Geezer award? Thanks for hosting!

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  2. Oct 2008 seems so long ago.

    Thanks for hosting and including my post.

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  3. Thank you for including my post! I also appreciate seeing the star next to it, I'm glad you enjoyed reading it.

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  4. Thanks for hosting and including my article!

    Didn't realize there were so many blogs back in the day.

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  5. Thanks for hosting, I am almost an Old Geezer, I guess.

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  6. Thanks for including the brand-new Half-Off Diet! What a clever spin on the carnival layout...it must have been quite a job. Thanks for hosting. :-)

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  7. Thanks for hosting this carnival and for including our post!

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  8. Thanks for hosting Dawn and including my post; gosh time flies when you're having fun :-)

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  9. Thanks for including the Control Your Cash post, and indirectly encouraging consumers to lie through their teeth.

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  10. @Control Your Cash
    I aim to please - even in the grey areas

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  11. Very original idea and kinda fun to see where we fall into place. Thanks for the include!

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  12. Great blog posts, def going to have to check some of these out :)

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  13. Thanks for the inclusion! I, too, enjoyed the format.

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