Do you ever feel scorched by the flames of frugality burnout? Frugal Homemaker Plus reveals how she deals when she just can't stand being frugal for one more second.

The quest for frugality can go too far when you are giving up all your time to save all your money. Time is a valuable resource too, and worth saving.

I discovered frugality out of necessity. I have embraced frugality because of the way it changed my life.

With the rising costs of groceries, clothing, gas and heating oil, many are finding the need to be creative in stretching our dollars. I know to some, being frugal is as natural as breathing.

Living a frugal lifestyle has many benefits including saving money, wasting less and reducing stress.

Economists are still uncertain if the U.S. is in a recession. Until they figure it out, take steps now to cover your assets.

Looking at my heart as I examine why I want to be frugal

Being frugal and living on one income is more than pinching pennies - it's a vision!

Through careful analysis of ones income and expenditures one can learn how to live frugally and thus improve ones standard of living and future prospects for financial security.

Many consumers feel the pinch as energy and food costs have risen considerably in recent years. The author of this article describes how, with a little sacrifice and lots of ingenuity it is still possible to live well for less.

No one has ever become a millionaire by foolishly spending large amounts of money, and you certainly aren't going to be the first. Money doesn't come out of thin air, you have to be frugal so that you have more money to invest and build wealth with.

Some of us are frugal out of necessity. Some of us are frugal because it makes sense.

Frugal Homemaker Plus discusses her frugal journey.

Frugal Homemaker's observations of other graduate students in her program made her realize that her frugal lifestyle was saving her a lot of grief.

Some thoughts on how one may offset the new Con Edison increases by increasing their conservation of energy.

Why endure food-cost inflation when you can learn to feed yourself and your family for much, much less? Foraging isn't just a fun and fulfilling pastime anymore. In this new era of food insecurity, it's a responsible and sensible frugality.

This article describes a system of menu planning and grocery shopping that makes it easy to maximize the food budget in these expensive times, as well as allows flexibility and creativity in one of the most daunting tasks, planning regular family menus.

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Some inspiring examples of responsible, frugal living.

Living frugally is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts. Oftentimes, in this "shop-'til-you-drop" society, frugality is made fun of. That's probably because fools outnumber the wise.

If you have a job that requires you to travel for work, it's going to get expensive sooner or later. Here are some ways to travel frugally for work. You might even come back earning some extra money while you're there.

My road to frugality.

You don't need to give up on a group of friends just because they have champagne tastes and you're on a beer pocketbook. You can keep them as friends, still go out with them, and maintain your frugality.

For those who do not normally keep themselves a strict budget, frugality may seem like a foreign idea. Here are some ideas that will help you become frugal without feeling deprived.

Cooking at home is a really good way to begin to start spending less money. If you're used to going out to eat whenever you're hungry, this can be a rather difficult transition to make.

We may form habits of honesty, or knavery; truth, or falsehood; of industry, or idleness; frugality, or extravagance; of patience, or impatience; self-denial, or self-indulgence; of kindness, cruelty, politeness, rudeness, prudence, perseverance, circumspection.

Driven by a fondness for fun and frugality, more people are choosing fuel-efficient scooters to combat auto gas prices, says writer Katie Menzer.

As I learned more about the couch surfing phenomenon, I realized that there's a culture of reciprocity and kinship in the couch surfing community and that most couch surfers aren't just freeloaders.

Learn to respect your own right for frugality and never allow peer pressure to rush you through a check out line, or into picking a product at random to get going faster.

Frugality is a weird word, in my house we call the practice survival!