Why should frugality be a village?

Just last week during a casual search on Google for some material, I stumbled on an interesting image. It was a photograph of a road signage, which read ‘Village of Frugality’. The first thought that came to my mind was ‘Why only a village, why not the whole wide world?’

After Stint of Frugality, Americans Open Wallets Again

After two years spent pinching pennies, it appears that Americans have left their frugal ways behind. That is the finding of a Harris Poll, conducted in December 2011, which showed that for the first time since 2009 Americans are not taking simple actions to save money.

Joanne Chianello: Ottawa’s frugality in the ’90s is haunting us now

Thanks Jaquie and Jim. Your frugal, election-winning ways of the 1990s are going to cost us a 74-per cent increase in our water and sewer bills over the next decade.

Davos all for frugality - if it's painless

To the untrained observer Davos man and Davos woman might look the same as ever: well-fitting clothes, mobile phone clamped to ear, iPad affixed to finger, a confident "master-of-the-universe" gleam in the eye.But something has...

Frugality takes hold

When the oily rag website was first published a few years back we had no idea it would grow into a community of thousands and have tens of thousands of page views a month. Frugality is obviously sweeping though the suburbs as more and more people ...