Showcase: Be Thrifty Like Us
Tell me a little about yourself: who are you?
We are a husband and wife blogging team who write at Be Thrifty Like Us. We are in our mid 20's and are new parents to a baby girl. My husband is a CPA & I am a systems analyst. We love the outdoors and have a strong interest in finance – together, we make one heck of a money saving team!
When did you start blogging? Why do you blog?
We started blogging in January. As new parents – we found ourselves staying in more. We decided a blog would be a good hobby for us after our daughter goes to sleep at night. The blog is a great, cheap hobby! Our blog was recently featured in Newsweek magazine back in March – you can read the article here.
We decided that if we started a blog we could help others to be thrifty and save money.The blog is also a motivator for us. Since starting the blog four months ago, we've paid down $20,000 in student loans and automobile debt! We are on a quest to get rid of our student loans so that we can fund our daughter's college education someday.
Lastly, the blog helps us get connected with other like minded people. We have learned so many ideas and money saving tips from the frugal and personal finance blogging community.
How important is frugality to you?
For us being frugal is both a game and a way of life. We continually try to live on less and send more to our student loans. We are used to being frugal and it's the way our life is. We do view frugality as a game sometimes – when we try to see how to get the best deal when buying something.
How does the rest of your family feel about your frugal ideas?
Our parents couldn't be prouder! Both our families are frugal people who worked really hard to raise their kids. They love to see us trying to spend our money wisely and do the best we can for our daughter. We've helped our families with budgeting, retirement planning and lowering their cable bills.
And did I mention I have gotten them all hooked on CVS? We have about five or six people in our extended family who are shopping the Extra Care Bucks program. My brother acts like we are crazy for clipping coupons – but I've noticed he is never one to pass up the freebies I offer him for his dorm room!
Thanks for your time. If you stop by Be Thrifty Like Us, we are sure you will find some interesting things to read. From our CVS weekly deal preview to our ideas on how to negotiate on purchases to our ideas on avoiding the dry cleaners – there is something for everyone!
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5 Responses to “Showcase: Be Thrifty Like Us”
May 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Love their blog! I read it everyday at least twice. he..he..
May 9th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Hello! I added the code for the Frugal Hacks blogroll to my blog but I couldn’t find a way to contact you to ask to be added. Can you please verify that the code has been added? Thanks so much (love your blog!!)
September 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I visited and used Be Thrifty Like Us website earlier this year and I LOVED it. I used alot of their ideas. I just told a friend about it a couple days ago and I realized I haven’t been on the website in a while. I just tried to find it and it says that the “blog has been removed” ?????? WHAT HAPPENED?!!! I love this website. I need this website. Please help me.
Bonnie
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I also enjoyed Be Thrifty Like Us…one of the first blogs I started checking faithfully. I don’t want to misquote the author but I seem to recall she said blogging was too time consuming so was stopping. (I apologize, Be Thrifty, if the reason was another.)
So Bonnie, it seems the site is no more.
September 28th, 2008 at 9:51 am
This news of the Be Thrifty Like Us website is no more is very upsetting. Hopefully the author reads these comments and starts blogging again for us
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