For the scoop on donating to Haiti earthquake relief, check out yesterday’s EconomyStory.org post. Plus the Network for Good is providing an easy way to give to any one or all of several dozen organizations. Of course, always be cognizant of online scams.

This post on Joe Sent Me , a blog for business travellers, is nine months old, but I like it anyway. Using an anonymous interview with an airline executive as a launching point, blogger Joe Brancatelli argues that the airlines that imposed baggage and other fees the quickest are the ones that are losing the [...]

Over at EconomyStory.org yesterday, one user posted this comment: It’s time for my micro indicator to broaden its horizons. For 20 years, I’ve interpreted cars with a burned out headlight as an indicator of economic decline. If I see three in the 25 minutes it takes me to get home, it’s still a recession. I’ve [...]

Following up on our last post on thrifting blogs, these items:

How I I Paid My Rent For 6 Months By Thrifting (Things I Found at the Thrift Store)

Let me first start by saying that having to make rent this way was in no way fun or recommended. Unless you’re retired or insanely dedicated to it. Paying my rent for 6 months via scraping by on reselling thrifted goods was a ton of work. I was able to utilize my in-depth knowledge of web-selling platforms to more easily liquidate most of the items. I was able to achieve this feat mainly by selling just a few items each month that made up most of my then $800 a month rent. On a soapbox-rant side note: let me say that when congress or some rogue old senator (who you know doesn’t even use the web) dabbles with the idea of taxing people’s income from selling items on sites like eBay and Etsy, it makes me seriously cringe. Some folks do this for a living and it’s grueling. An extremely slim percentage of the web sellers are making good coin from doing it. Like I said above, reselling items for a living is not what I’d call fun.

From Wikipedia: “Thrifting refers to the act of shopping at a thrift store, flea market, garage sale, or a shop of a charitable organization, usually with the intent of finding interesting items at a cheap price… Thrifting lures a variety of different audiences. Two most commonly come to mind: 1) People who have no economic [...]

As described in our last post, the retailer H&M is suffering a public relations nightmare stemming from a New York grad student’s noticing on the street hundreds of unsold garments that it destroyed. Twitter, Facebook, and the blogs are all ablaze in condemning H&M for not donating the clothes to charity. The H&M Facebook page [...]

You may have heard about the big to-do going on over H&M (as well as Wal-Mart) dumping unsold clothes instead of donating them to charity. A few days ago a City University of New York grad student noticed hundreds of the stores’ discarded garments and called the New York Times, which wrote up a story.

What happened next has become a familiar story in the annals of bad corporate p.r. H&M took too long to respond, and the Web went wild. A day later, H&M issued a statement. Wallet Pop…

Times being what they are, a lot of people have been lurking in the “Free Stuff” section on Craigslist, hoping to spend no more than some time and sweat — you almost always have to pick up the stuff and haul it away. So it’s the proverbial “win-win situation”: You get a freebie, the posters [...]

Gas prices are higher than any time since 2008, so a site like GasBuddy.com might be especially useful right about now. The site works by members of the public spotting gas prices and posting them. Points earned towards prizes like free gas — plus the altruism of helping your fellow driver and sticking it to [...]

The site Being Frugal.net has a feature called Tightwad Tuesdays with some interesting tricks for saving money on cleaning around the house: Homemade cleaning products – how to clean almost anything with baking soda, vinegar, and dishwashing detergent More Homemade cleaners – stain remover, car cleaner, dishwasher detergent, oven cleaner The Frugal Cleaning Cabinet – [...]