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Find Cheap Places to Stay When You Travel

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | The Ultimate Cheapskate | Comments

Money & Savings | TravelPlanning a summer vacation? Check out my new episode of “The Cheap Life” where I talk about ways to find cheap places to stay when you travel. If you haven’t considered hostels or “couchsurfing,” these alternatives to staying in traditional hotels can save you big bucks. See also: More Ways to Save on Travel. Be sure to enter the comment on the YouTube page for a chance to win a $50 gift card. Travel safe and stay cheap.

Tips for Buying a Used Bike

Posted on 05/6/2013 by | The Ultimate Cheapskate | Comments

Money & Savings | TravelMay is National Bike Month, and it’s the perfect time to hop on a bicycle both to get in shape and save some money by leaving your car parked in the garage. As we cyclists like to say: Cars run on money and make you fat; bicycles run on fat and save you money. But if you don’t already own a bicycle, you may experience some sticker shock if you go shopping for a new one. At the same time, …

An Evacuation Plan at Your Parent’s Nursing Home: 9 Questions to Ask

Posted on 04/19/2013 by | Caregiving | Comments

Caregiving | TravelMedia images of nursing home residents being evacuated after an explosion this week at a nearby fertility plant in West, Texas, raise an important issue. That is, if your loved one is, or may some day be, in a nursing home, do you know what its evacuation and emergency plans are? According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in 2012 on any day, more than 1.4 million Americans live in 15,800 nursing homes; more than 3 million have …

Other Earth-Friendly Days

Posted on 04/19/2013 by | The Ultimate Cheapskate | Comments

Home & Family | Money & Savings | TravelDon’t get me wrong:  as a lifelong environmentalist, I think that Earth Day (April 22) serves an invaluable purpose both as a celebration of our wondrous planet and as an opportunity to draw attention to the many serious – literally “life threatening” – challenges facing our natural environment.  The only problem with Earth Day is that it’s a single day once a year, while our responsibility to the environment is 24/7, every day of the year. The good news is …

The Government Compound Where Robots Watch TV

Posted on 04/10/2013 by | Movies & TV | Comments

Entertainment | TravelI recently ventured into the hollowed-out Virginia mountain where the Library of Congress keeps copies of every movie, TV show, and sound recording that’s submitted for copyright. Officially, it’s called the the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. I call it Heaven. Here are stored, in specially built vaults, the highly explosive nitrate prints of films made prior to the 1950s…historic videotapes, including the first-ever color broadcast…vinyl and shellac discs dating back to the days of Edison… and in a lead-lined vault …

Save on Gas When You Travel This Summer

Posted on 04/9/2013 by | The Ultimate Cheapskate | Comments

Money & Savings | TravelGas prices these days remind me of temperatures across much of the country: way up one day, down the next, then up again. See also: Take our gas savings quiz! But just as certain as the fact that summer’s heat will eventually arrive in full force is the fact that, over time, gas prices will only continue to increase. You don’t have an economist — or even a cheapskate — to figure out that petroleum is finite resource. As supplies …

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