Budget Living

Ten Tricks & Tips for Saving Money in Denver

Claire Walter | Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver


Claire Walter

In and around Denver, the best things in life are free - or cheap. Mile High on the Cheap tracks down, free entertainment sales and special promotions and posts half a dozen or more every day.

Five New Yorkers Fashion Rent-Free Home Out Of Abandoned Ferry

nytimes.com | RAVI SOMAIYA | Posted 01.26.2009 | Style


The ship is owned by a 29-year-old real estate investor named Jonathan, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be published and the precise...

Elopement Business Is Booming Amid Recession

nytimes.com | DEVAN SIPHER | Posted 12.25.2008 | Style


In a time of tightening budgets, some wedding professionals have seen an increase in elopements as couples consider it a practical alternative. It's ...

The Recessionista: Ready For Her Close-Up

Kira Craft | Posted 12.11.2008 | Style


Kira Craft

She's ready for her close up now and poised to become America's new sweetheart, the girl who's super stylish on a dime and wears her tight budget as comfortably as couture.

Doctors Offer Discount Botox, Plastic Surgery

New York Times | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 12.07.2008 | Style


In light of drastic consumer cutbacks on spending, some dermatologists, facial surgeons and plastic surgeons are promoting the kinds of markdowns, cou...

Staying In Is The New Going Out

dailymail.co.uk | Charlotte Kemp | Posted 12.06.2008 | Style


While restaurants are struggling, sales of smoked salmon, for example, are up by a third as people throw dinner parties. Comfort eating means luxury c...

How To Swap Instead Of Shop

New York | Posted 12.04.2008 | Style


You hate everything in your closet, but you don't want to buy anything. Easy to fix. Hold a clothing-swap meet or, as my friend Jane calls them, "frie...

The Joys And Thriftiness Of Sex With Your Ex

New York | Posted 12.04.2008 | Style


ormal dates--with the requisite mani-pedis, barbershop shaves, drinks, and movie tickets--can easily add up to more than $200. But just because you're...

Library Circulation Soars

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.28.2008 | Chicago


Barnes & Noble, Best Buy and Blockbuster's loss is the Chicago Public Library's gain. Circulation of library materials during the first nine months o...