Living on a Budget

  • Man checking pressure and inflating car tire

    5 Things To Know Before Putting Nitrogen in Your Tires

    When most people inflate their tires, they go with plain old compressed air. It’s cheap, widely available, and works just fine. But there is a pricier alternative: nitrogen-filled car tires. Since there’s a lot of confusion surrounding this gas —…

  • Photo of mother and her son at the supermarket buying groceries

    Medicaid Recipients Can Now Use Funds To Buy Groceries

    As pandemic-driven boosts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits dissipate, the Biden Administration is granting states permission to use Medicaid funds to pay for groceries and nutritional counseling, The Wall Street Journal reports. The effort supports “food as…

  • Unrecognisable woman holding positive pregnancy test.

    Here’s Why You Should Buy Dollar Store Pregnancy Tests

    It might sound counterintuitive, even risky, but you should almost always skimp on home pregnancy tests. That’s because whether you spend $30 or $1, all Food and Drug Administration-approved test strips check for pregnancies by measuring levels of hCG, a…

  • Shot of an unrecognizable woman using a mobile phone indoors

    Is Visible Wireless Good? We Tried It for a Year To Find Out

    In the past few years, established wireless providers like Verizon and AT&T have seen growing competition from dirt-cheap carriers called mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). We know that sounds boring and technical, but the idea behind these low-cost providers is…

  • Misfits Market Produce Box

    I Tried Misfits Market and Imperfect Foods — Here’s How It Went

    It’s tough to measure up to conventional beauty standards — especially, it turns out, if you’re a potato. Or a mango. Or pretty much any fruit or vegetable. Because if you’re a runt-of-the-crop cabbage or celery root that looks a…

  • A restaurant adapts to the Covid-19 pandemic and stay at home orders by pivoting to take out and delivery.

    Should You Tip For Takeout? Here’s What Frugal Redditors Say

    Is tipping culture in America getting out of hand? Now that point-of-sale kiosks are standard at most establishments, it’s a question that everyone is asking, including budget-conscious Redditors. In a trending thread on r/Frugal, one of the subreddit’s members recently…