With all the talk around here about parties (bridal shower, engagement shower, bachelorette parties?! Oh my!), I started thinking about all the times my college friends and I would throw each other surprise parties. We were obsessed with throwing each other parties. Not your birthday? Don’t care! You’re getting a party anyway (don’t worry, we all liked surprise parties). Being college Continue Reading
Why You Should Care About Your Personal Savings Rate
Hi everyone! Please welcome our new freelance writer, Anum Yoon! Anum has written some awesome posts for us in the past, and now she'll be a regular contributor to Sunburnt Saver. For more of Anum's stellar personal finance writing, check out her site, Current on Currency. Please welcome Anum to the Sunburnt Saver community! :) Do you want to work forever? If you’re one of the lucky few who Continue Reading
10 Frugal Ways to Beat the Heat
Today in Phoenix it was 113 degrees. I’m going to let that sink in for a minute. One hundred and thirteen degrees. It’s so hot, you literally bake, like a potato, from the inside out. Remember those saving money on sunscreen tips I gave you last week? I need sunscreen inside my body, because I’m roasting. Somebody poke me, I’m a turkey. (Side note: do you poke turkeys? I’m a vegetarian and have Continue Reading
Save Money on Sunscreen
Your skin is your body’s largest organ, so it makes sense to protect it, right? Unfortunately, when the sun’s out and the weather is great, so many of us take our skin for granted. Especially after a severe, prolonged winter, who wants to think about (or who even remembers!) to wear sunscreen? I’ll save you the lecture about why wearing sunscreen is important to protect your skin, Continue Reading
Frugal Mother’s Day Ideas
Mother’s Day is around the corner, which means you’re probably getting bombarded by ads telling you to buy things for Mom. Yeah, jewelry stores, I’m definitely going to buy my Mom those earrings that cost more than my engagement ring. Seriously, is that a thing? Mass consumerism aside, most people do something for Mother’s Day. However, a lot of the typical Mother’s Day celebrations usually Continue Reading
Embrace Free Work Perks!
My organization offers a free fitness incentive program that, if you walk 5,000 steps 3 times a week, tracked by a provided pedometer, you’re entered into a monthly prize drawing for $50 gift cards to either a local grocery store chain or a sporting goods store. On top of that, work also offers gift cards in various, progressive amounts for each 100,0000, 500,000 and one million steps you walk. Continue Reading