Category Archives: The Guru Rants

I’m Back!

Written by Brian on October 1, 2012 — Leave a Comment

After a 7 month employment stint with Prospect Marketing Group (aka business leader, in touch today, opportunity world, castle advertising etc..) I, the Thrifty Guru am back to working from home. Yes, today I got a call from PMG CEO Eran Salu’s partner Mike Plotnik who informed me gently, but sternly that PMG has decided [...]

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Save Wisely and Live Happy

Written by Brian on January 18, 2012 — 1 Comment

Yesterday I bought Ghirardelli brownies, smoked salmon, Blue Bell ice cream, maple breakfast sausage links and $56 in Tai takeout all without the aid of a single coupon. Crazy you say? Actually I’m perfectly sane. These buys are the essence of my saying “Save wisely and live happy.” ‘Save Wisely’ means that you should save [...]

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Take Every Opportunity – The High Dive Effect

Written by Brian on January 10, 2012 — 2 Comments

My dad called and asked, “Do you want to come ice fishing with me at 3AM tomorrow? I’ll pay for you.” My preprogrammed response to most questions, especially those ending in ‘I’ll pay for you’… “Yes!” It took only a few moments after I clicked the ‘end’ button on my iPhone to realize what I [...]

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Goals for the New Year

Written by ThriftyRachel on December 31, 2011 — 1 Comment

Every year, we try it again.  We create our goals.  Some people write them on paper, some people post them to their facebook pages, and some of us just sort of mentally think of a new goal but we’re too afraid to share it with others because we know that we probably won’t keep it. [...]

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Merry Christmas from The Thrifty Guru!

Written by Brian on December 26, 2011 — Leave a Comment

I hope the season has been everything you wanted it to be. This year I listened to 52,000 Christmas songs (mostly the same 20 songs recycled over and over). Drank at least 10 starbucks seasonal drinks, went through 3 whole nutmeg seeds in various homemade drinks, did 3 different Christmas crafts (will post about these [...]

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Get Free Money with your Credit Card

Written by Brian on December 13, 2011 — Leave a Comment

My good pal ThriftyRachel wrote a great article about the perils and pitfalls of credit card use. The driving point of her article is 100% true and pretty frightening: When we use a credit card for a purchase, we are willing to spend more. And we’ll even spend money that we don’t have. Rachel concluded [...]

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Credit Cards

Written by ThriftyRachel on December 12, 2011 — 6 Comments

One idea that’s popular among savers is using your credit card for all purchases and getting cash back for them. Who doesn’t want 3% cash back on groceries. We work hard for $1 off Doritos so why not double up on savings and pull out the plastic? I started to ask myself, “Why do Credit card [...]

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My Coupon Confession

Written by ThriftyRachel on November 30, 2011 — 3 Comments

I have a deep dark secret. I love coupons.  I think everyone should use them.  Not necessarily to the same extent as those couponers on television, nor does everyone have to use them to the same extent that I use them.  But, when given a choice to pay an amount or to pay half of [...]

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16.6 Pounds of Candy.

Written by Brian on November 2, 2011 — 2 Comments

Halloween is fun, but it’s also an amazing opportunity to collect free food. I’ve taken my daughter out trick-or-treating every year of her life. Usually we’d find her a cute costume at the thrift store, shoot the mandatory 400+ photos, take her out for an hour or so and head home. Having lost a job [...]

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Debt collectors lies – T-Mobile

Written by Brian on October 19, 2011 — 4 Comments

Back in 2006 I was young and naive. Shortly after moving to Colorado, I accidentally ran up a $1,400 bill with my T-Mobile cell phone. I promptly contacted T-Mobile and communicated to them that I am a good customer who made a mistake and asked them to please just cut the amount in half as [...]

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