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LiveMocha – Learn a new language or brush up on one

Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: Career & Work, Education, Travel & Leisure, Uncategorized |

Livemocha is a free service that allows its members to become conversationally proficient in an ever-growing number of popular languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Icelandic, Italian, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Russian. Since launching in September 2007, the Livemocha community has already grown to over 2 million members, a [...]

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3 New or Noteworthy Things with Freecycle.org: Growth, Mobile Access, and Browser Plug-ins

Posted on June 7, 2009. Filed under: Home & Garden, San Francisco Bay Area, Software & Technology, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Freecycle.org is a “globally local”  online network helping millions of people to recycle and keep stuff out of landfills. This nonprofit gifting movement enables individuals to gift items in their local communities rather than to throw them away.  If you’re not already familiar with Freecycle™,  I wrote an article back in July, 2008 about how [...]

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Meetup.com – Connect with Like-minded People

Posted on June 3, 2009. Filed under: Entertainment, Low Money Fun, San Francisco Bay Area, Software & Technology, Travel & Leisure, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Meetup.com is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face.  Meetup leverages online technology to allow like-minded people to self-organize to get together offline.
Meetup groups exist in over 4000 cities and 100 countries, [...]

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BudgetMaven is now on Twitter

Posted on June 3, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized |

You can now get updates and follow me on Twitter as BudgetMaven.

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Smithsonian FREE Museum Day: Saturday, September 26, 2009

Posted on June 1, 2009. Filed under: Entertainment, For Parents, Low Money Fun, No Money Fun, San Francisco Bay Area, Travel & Leisure, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Save the date!
The participating museums around the country are not listed yet, but once again, Smithsonian is sponsoring a FREE museum day, on Saturday, September 26, 2009.  Check back here for more details and how to get your museum pass.

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Target sponsoring FREE Admission Passes to Museums Across U.S.

Posted on May 31, 2009. Filed under: Entertainment, Low Money Fun, No Money Fun, San Francisco Bay Area, Travel & Leisure, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Free Admission Passes To Museums Across The Country
Target is sponsoring free entry to select museums and activities on certain days in Arizona, California, Colorado, D.C., Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington

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Create Your Own Printable Personalized Coupons for FREE

Posted on May 27, 2009. Filed under: Cooking and Eating, Entertainment, Holidays, Low Money Fun, No Money Fun, Pets, Shopping, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Select from the coupons here to send or print out and give as a gift.  There are many cute ideas  for low or no money fun and thoughtful ways to show someone (romantic or platonic) you care whatever their love language:
Acts of Service -  like Personal slave for One Night coupon or offer to [...]

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Article from EverydayHealth – Top 10 Budget-Friendly Foods (Healthy Ones!)

Posted on May 7, 2009. Filed under: Cooking and Eating, Health & Beauty, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Top 10 Budget-Friendly Foods (Healthy Ones!)
Tightening your belt these days? You don’t have to cut back on healthy foods as you’re trimming your family food budget! Here are 10 top picks for economical and delicious healthy foods
1. Oats
2. Healthy Frozen Mixed-Vegetable Blends
3. Fresh Fruit: Bananas, Apples, and Oranges
4. Lentils
5. Beans (Canned or Dried)
6. Peanut [...]

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25 Free Google Profiles Business Cards

Posted on May 3, 2009. Filed under: Career & Work, Uncategorized |

25 Free Google Profiles Business Cards
No charge for printing or for shipping compliments of Google.
Step 1  Create a profile here first
http://www.google.com/profiles
Step 2  Then go to  http://www.google.com/profiles/me/bizcards and checkout
first 10k
If you get “not found” for the second link go back to your profile page and there should be a link to get the cards on the [...]

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Free 5×7 Hallmark Mother’s Day Card with coupon code

Posted on April 28, 2009. Filed under: Bargain Shopping, Holidays, Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Hallmark coupon – Free 5×7 Mother’s Day Card

For those really budget conscious shoppers, Hallmark is offering a totally free 5×7 Mother’s Day Card and even ships it for free. Just go online, choose a paper card, personalize it and enter coupon code CARD4MOM at checkout. Be sure to order by May 1st for [...]

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