I’ve noticed a backlash against frugality as well. It’s sad that Americans aren’t willing to sacrifice in order to get ahead.

This sounds a lot like my personal finance management style- no frills and easy to use.

This is a great idea to use gift cards to budget for your guilty pleasures.

I got on the Internet Archive page and found the very first web page I ever created. It’s about 10 years old and I made it when I was big into swing music. It was fun stumbling on this again. Warning: Very bad HTML design.

Frugal Law Student Retro: I tried buying gold after I read that it was hot. The next week the value of gold plummeted and I lost a couple hundred bucks.

Interesting article on a corporate law professor who wrote a fantasy novel. As a law student who is taking corporations and an occasional reader of fantasy novels, this article both entertained and informed me.

The Fed cut the fed fund rate. So what? MyMoney explains how the fed fund rate affects interest rates on bank savings.

I’m a big fan of Amazon as both a buyer and seller. J.D. explains his Amazon selling system.

Frugal Law Student Retro: Hell hath no furry like a wife with a ruined new shirt. I’m a putz.

Ernest Hemingway’s writing style is particularly useful for legal writers. I picked up “The Sun Also Rises” at the library today for some casual reading. We’ll see if I pick anything up from old Ernest.

My wife and I were talking about how one of the biggest money suckers for twenty and thirty somethings are weddings. During this time of your life, all your friends are getting married and you have to give gifts. Here’s some tips on how to save.

Here’s a great post on how to be frugal when doing the laundry by Leah Ingram. On top of being a master frugal launderer, Leah is also the author of the book “Tie the Knot on a Shoestring.”

Frugal Law Student Retro: Students are in the best position to exercise frugality. Take advantage of all the free stuff going on at your school while you can.

Medication is expensive. The Consumerist provides a few resources where you can find lower priced generic drugs.

I’ve been bitten hard by overdraft fees. Sydney, from thatcollegekid.com, provides some great advice on how to avoid them.

My favorite on the list was number 3: Think and work on paper. I’ll often bust out pen and paper when I get stumped by a concept and just start free writing. I’ll liberally include mind maps and drawings to help me figure stuff out.

Frugal Law Student Retro: This was an experience my wife and I had hosting a dinner party. We still have them, but keep things more simple to save time and money.

Are your finances bloated? Brip Blap offers different money diets you can go on.

This blog doesn’t help me fight the urge to buy a MacBook. Great stuff on how you tear law school up with a Mac.

This is a post about a 1L about the feeling of being overwhelmed the first semester of law school by all the work. My advice to them is to make a weekly schedule and stick to it. Everything will fall into place.

Frugal Law Student Retro: One of the first steps to getting a hold of your finances is keeping track of your expenses. I still have trouble with this one.