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Saturday, May 23, 2009

'Life Hackery' - A nice blog with useful tips and hacks

'Life Hackery' is a nice blog which I discovered while browsing 'stumble upon'. The blog offers useful tips and hacks to make your life better. There are many variety of topics you can read and browse about the tips and hacks.

From the top link bar you can directly go for the posts which are related to these topics:
# Art & Design
# Automotive
# Entertainment
# Gadgetry
# Health
# Home
# Internet
# Life
# Money
# Productivity
# Technology

I just checked the 'art/design' to check what kind of stuff they offer and I was happy to see many good and quality posts like as 'How to Plan a Surprise Party?', '17 Uncommon Uses for Cotton Swabs', 'Five Funky Ways to Reuse Gift Wrappers' etc etc. I was really inspired with the post '17 common uses for cotton swabs' because I am one of those crafts lovers who prefer to use cheap or recycled material.

More about the site (in their own words)

'Who doesn’t want life to be easier? In our time-obsessed society, we’re always looking for shortcuts, and we share the ones that we find with you. Keep reading, and you’ll find useful, unusual and (sometimes) ironic tips and tricks to hack your life into shape.'

You can discover a lot more at the site.

Site link: 'Life Hackery'

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Save money with 'The grocery game' -

Frugal means 'economical', 'wise in the expenditure' and when we start talking about frugal hobbies, it means 'hobbies which can be adopted without or spending very minimal cost. Collection of coupons, discount vouchers and promotional codes is one of those frugal hobbies which most of the housewives love to do. Saving money is another fun activity or entertaining as it gives us satisfaction and pleasure. It is pleasure if you could save up to 50% on your grocery bills monthly.

You can save a lot of money with the Grocery Coupons which are offered by 'The Grocery Game' where you can save money with your groceries and you know it better that grocery saving means a good amount of money month after month.

The story behind the creation of this site is interesting. It all started when Teri Gault (the company's founder and CEO)was trying to save money. He started it by collecting coupons and matching them to grocery store sales. Gradually this hobby became a passion.

Now Teri is sharing her money saving ideas with us through this site. The Grocery Game offers "TERI'S LIST" in all 50 states.

How to play the grocery game?

You'll get a weekly list of the lowest-priced products at your supermarket matched with manufacturers' coupons and weekly specials -- advertised and unadvertised. You have to pay a little fee to play this game, but if you could save hundreds of dollars by paying a little amount then it is definite saving.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Adopt Frugal hobbies to save money

There is a long list of hobbies, leisure activities which people love to adopt but many hobbies are expensive as you need to spend some money for those activities. But if you want to save money but need to be involved in some kind of hobbies without spending any money (or at least with minimum amount of money)then 'frugal hobbies' can help in this regard.

What are the frugal hobbies?

A few frugal hobbies might be:

Gardening
Reading
Sewing
Crafting
Baking/Cooking
Photography (now everyone has digital camera or at least a cell phone with digital camera, so it is an inexpensive hobby)

To my point of view these all activities come into category of recreational or creative hobbies and at the same time these hobbies help you save money. The list can be long enough because it depends upon you which kind of recreational activities or hobbies you can find around you.

Useful links and posts:

* Frugal hobbies at 'frugal families'

* Frugal Hobbies You Can Enjoy on a Budget

* Creatively Frugal Hobbies

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Enjoy stunning stock photography at 'Hicker Photo'

Photography has become a child's play due to easy use of cell phone and digital cameras. Taking stunning and high resolution pictures is easier than before. There are a lot of sites around the net where you can enjoy browsing the stunning adventure travel pictures. I love to browse the travel and adventure travel picture sites as it is a way of having fun sitting at home.

'Hicker Photo' offers stock photography which is really stunning and you can have fun browsing through the stunning pictures. Let's learn about the term 'stock photography'

'Stock photography' consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.

A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but can also sacrifice creative control. Stock images can be presented in search able online databases, purchased online, and delivered via download or email.

'Hicker Photo' is one of the most popular travel stock photography and travel websites with over 3 million visitors per month. The site is owned by Rolf Hicker who is well known both internationally for his work as a nature, travel, and wildlife photographer and filmmaker.

Travel Information & animal, nature and travel stock photography by award winning photographer Rolf Hicker
Travel goes hand in hand with stock photography - both are our life and passion.

You can find free travel information and travel stock photography - collected over many years of traveling, and ideas for "not so known" destinations.

There is a collection of digital stock library of over 15,000 pictures. They offer rights managed animal (mostly wildlife), nature and travel stock photography as well as licenses for stock photos. These images are available in mediums such as high resolution files, quality fine art prints, and mouse pads with nature photos.

Useful links:
- 'Foto search' - a provider of royalty free and rights managed stock photography, illustrations, maps, video, and audio.

- 'Acclaim images' provides free photo research alongwith high quality, limited distribution digital images and art. prints.

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