Tips to keeping your State Fair experience fun and frugal

Reporter Kaylin Bettinger has spent the past week at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. In addition to writing about people and events, she's been making a checklist of practical tips for fairgoers.

Women shoppers shunning splurges for frugal consumption

Women shoppers shunning splurges for frugal consumption

Best buy under $25, frugal fashion tips

Details from our latest  Bargain Sense show include a best buy under $25, community yard sale fun and frugal fashion advice. Watch the video below or click here . read more

Passion for design inspires book

Randy Florke's passion for preserving late 19th and early 20th century farmhouses has inspired a book full of ideas on inexpensively decorating and renovating a home with good materials someone else no longer needs.

FRUGAL LIVING: Use less to save money and avoid waste

It's easy to waste products by using too much. This is especially true with products that are pourable or in squeezable containers. No one wants to feel like there's a daily audit on product usage, but if at least one person in the household measures only the amount that is needed or makes an effort to use less of a product, it can amount to a decent amount of annual savings without any loss in ...