100 Best Blog Posts for Extreme Budgeting

Times are tough for many Americans as jobs are scarce and financial security is hard to come by. Students, even those working to get online degrees, have it especially hard when it comes to staying afloat financially. There are some ways you can help your money go further, however, as these blog posts about extreme budgeting will show. While not everything will be something you'll want to try, you'll likely learn a few tips and get some advice that can help you in the long run.

Basics

These posts will teach you the basics of giving your finances a makeover.

1. 5 Extreme Budget Makeovers: Learn how to shape up your finances with this budget that isn't for wimps.
2. Extreme Frugality: What would you give up?: What are the things you'd give up to save money? This post discusses some ideas.
3. Extreme Frugality– Are You Willing to Go The Distance?: Here you can learn whether or not you're ready to become an extreme budgeter.
4. Extreme Ways to Save Money: Get some ideas on out-there ways to save.
5. Budget Basics: Budgeting your Way to Financial Freedom: This post will teach you how budgeting can be your ticket out of debt.
6. Master Personal Finance Basics: Learn to get a handle on your personal finances with guidance from this post.
7. Basic Tips on Personal Finance: Here you'll find some great pointers to help you crack the code of personal finance.
8. Back to (Budgeting) Basics: This post will teach you the basics of budgeting.
9. Extreme Frugality: Learn what extreme frugality is and how to practice it from this post.
10. How to Save: If you have difficulty saving instead of spending, read this post for inspiration.

Creating a Budget

Learn how to make a budget through the advice in these posts.

11. Extreme Budgeting: The Cash Envelope Budget System: Try out using cash envelopes to help you budget using this method.
12. 7 Simple Steps To Creating A Budget: Think budgeting is hard? This post will teach you otherwise.
13. 3 Biggest Mistakes When Creating a Budget: This post will teach you what to avoid when you're writing out your budget.
14. How to Develop a Budget and Stick to It: Read this post to learn how to create a budget that you'll actually be able to manage.
15. Creating a Budget while Unemployed: Many people are out of work these days, and if you're one of them, this post can help you manage your finances with savvy.
16. How to Budget for an Irregular Income: Freelancers and consultants often don't have a steady stream of income. This post is for people like them who still want to stick to a budget.
17. Creating A Realistic Budget: Make sure your budget is actually something you could manage without too much hardship here.
18. Start Planning Your Personal Budget: Get help planning out how you'll spend and save from this post.
19. Creating a Budget for the Single Woman: All the single ladies out there can learn how to work with their incomes from this blog post.
20. Easy Household Budgeting Strategies: This post offers some simple ways you can save money around the house.
21. Budgeting: Does It Vary With Life Stages?: Read this post to see how your budgeting needs might change as your life does.
22. 10 Tips To Make Sure Your Financial Budget Will Succeed: You don't want to go to all the trouble of creating a budget just to fall off the wagon after a few months. This post will help you create a budget that will stick.
23. Spending Plan – A Nice Word For Budget: If you hate the word "budget," the spending plan idea here can help you out.

Spending on a Budget

Even if you're on a super strict budget you'll still need to buy a few things. Learn how to shop smart here.

24. What's Your Grocery Shopping Strategy?: Learn how to shop for groceries and only get what you really need with the help found here.
25. Six tips for an extreme budget wedding: Getting married but don't want to shell out big bucks? This post can help.
26. Grocery Budget Extreme Makeover Part IV: Read this series of posts to learn how to spend less and eat well.
27. Extreme Travel: How to Go Light and Low Budget: Going on an extreme budget doesn't mean you can't relax on vacation. This post will teach you how to travel for cheap.
28. Living Frugal and Buying a Car: Most people think living frugally means giving up luxuries like car ownership, but this post can show you how to save on your major car expenditures.
29. Too Much of a Good Thing?: Learn why you should budget-shop only when you really need to from this post.
30. Extreme Frugality Meal Plan: This post is a great way to help you manage your grocery budget.
31. 7 Concrete Tips To Curb Your Spending: Those looking to curb runaway spending habits should check out this post.

Living Frugally

These posts will teach you the finer points of living frugally.

32. Extreme Frugal Living: The Ultimate Household Budget: This post will help you establish a household budget that reflects your frugal values.
33. Frugal Living — the benefits of menu planning: Learn why planning out your meals can save you big from this post.
34. What's An Appropriate Home Food Budget for a Family of Four?: Not sure how much you should be spending for your family to eat? This post can explain how to figure it out.
35. The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living: Get tips for living on a budget that can help you big time from this post.
36. 12 Easy Frugal Living Tips: These basic tips can help the frugal newbie get started.
37. How to Live a Frugal Life: If you're trying to get into being more frugal, this post can help.
38. Frugality: Normal or Extreme Behavior?: Is your frugality perfectly normal or are you going to extremes? Find out more from this post.
39. Extreme Frugality: Living Out of Your Car: While it certainly isn't an option for most, learn how some super frugal people are giving up a home to save.
40. 75 Frugality Blogs That Will Change Your Life: If you're looking for some frugal reading material, this list of blogs provides it in spades.
41. Frugality Doesn't Mean You Have To Deprive Yourself: Learn why being frugal doesn't mean giving up everything you love from this post.
42. Frugality 101: This post aims to teach you the basics of a frugal lifestyle.

Getting Out of Debt

If your budgeting is a way to get out of debt, consider the advice of these posts.

43. How to Get Out of Debt: Create a Budget and Stick to It: Read this post to learn why budgeting, extreme or not, is essential to getting out of debt.
44. Don't Take a Vacation From Your Budget: Even if you're on vacation, you should stick to your budget, as this post states.
45. Job Loss: Save Money or Get Out of Debt?: This post advises you on whether or not it's best to save money or try to pay off debts when you've lost your job.
46. A Plan For When You're Debt Free: A Life Without Debt: This post will inspire you to continue on your path to being debt free.
47. The 12-Step Get-Out-of-Debt Program: Learn the twelve steps of getting out of debt from this Zen Habits post.
48. How To Get Out Of Credit Card Debt: Do credit cards form the bulk of your debt? Here you can learn some ways to get out from under it.
49. 5 Lessons About Getting Out Of Debt That You Don't Have To Learn The Hard Way: Don't let your debt ruin your life. This post offers advice on getting debt under control before you have to learn the hard way what it can do to you.
50. How To Get Out Of Debt With The Snowball Method: Try this method to get your debt under control.
51. Get Out of Debt Slowly: This post will teach you how to get out of debt even if you can only pay a little each month.
52. Why Having a Budget Is the First Step to Getting Out of Debt: Learn why your budget is such an essential part of your debt strategy from this post.

Inspiration

Get inspired to stick to your budget with these posts on people who are making it work.

53. Extreme Budgeting Redux: April 2010 Edition: Learn how this family is avoiding spending and sticking to their budget.
54. Month one – extreme budgeting report: This post will show you how extreme budgeting can be hard but worth it.
55. Frugal Family Pledges to Live on Only $1,500 This Year: Think you could live on so little? This post may inspire you.
56. Extreme Frugality: Meet the Carters: Gourmet Magazine: Going frugal doesn't mean having to give up on taste, as this post proves.
57. This is What Frugal Looks Like: Early Retirement Extreme: Want to retire early? See how it's done through extreme budgeting in these posts.
58. Frugality on a Whole New Level!: Get some inspiration on how to take your frugality to the next level from this post.
59. Living on $34.01 a Week: Learn how this man spent only $34.01 a week and made it work.
60. Extreme Frugality? Inspiration for Cutting Expenses and Debt.: This post will inspire you to make your frugal plans a reality.
61. Extreme Personal Finance: Living on $12,000 a Year: Even if you make far more than this, this post will teach you how to survive on very little.
62. Go Big or Go Home!: This post will inspire you to go all out with your frugality.
63. It's Back: Our Month of No Spending: Learn how this family tries to spend no money outside of the essentials for one month.
64. The Extreme Couponers: Read this post to learn how coupons can be your friends when it comes to living on a budget.

Tips and Advice

You'll find all kinds of great, budget-friendly advice here.

65. Extreme Savers Share Their Secrets: Need some advice on how to save big time? This post offers secrets from the super frugal on how they make it work.
66. Extreme Frugality: Learn more about extreme frugality and ways you can practice it here.
67. A Few Tips To Help You To Deal With Your Budget: Budgets aren't always fun, but this post will teach you how to better live with one.
68. The Parallels of Weight Loss and Budgeting: Read this post to learn how budgeting and weight loss have a lot in common.
69. 5 Household Budgeting Tips: This post offers some advice on getting your household budget under control.
70. Budget Planning: Tips towards Financial Freedom: Here you'll find inspiration to stick to your budget with financial freedom as your reward.
71. Budget Help: tips tricks and how to make it stick?: Get some tips on how to actually keep to your budget from this post.
72. Budgeting Tips and Hints: Techniques for Creating a Solid Budget: This post is a great resource for those struggling to create a realistic budget.
73. 7 Tips To Help Improve Your Personal Budget: Is your budget good enough but not great? Learn how to tweak it here.
74. 11 Budget Planning Mistakes to Avoid: Don't make these killer mistakes when budgeting by reading this post for advice.
75. Learn How To Save Money: Budgeting Tips: These budgeting tips will help make saving, instead of spending, a little easier.

Extreme Budgeting Cautions

Getting too crazy with your budget can have some downsides, as these posts demonstrate.

76. The Dangers of Extreme Frugality: Learn when it doesn't pay to be frugal from this article.
77. My Problem with Being Frugal: This blogger explains why she doesn't always think being frugal is the answer.
78. Extreme Frugality Sucks: Here you can read why regular frugality and budgeting might be a better option.
79. You Can Be Too Frugal: This post explains why being too frugal isn't always a good thing.
80. Extreme Frugality: The Scrooge Syndrome: Learn how to avoid becoming a miser instead of just frugal from this post.

Ways to Save

These posts offer readers a number of suggestions on ways to budget and save money.

81. Extreme Budgeting: Tracking Sales Tax: Learn why tracking sales tax can help you save.
82. Smart Ways to Spend Your Tax Return: Don't just blow your tax return. This post will teach you how to spend it wisely.
83. Extreme Frugality: Growing Tomatoes In A Bra And Other Interesting Frugal Ideas: Read this post for intriguing ideas on how to reuse and re-purpose things around the house.
84. Freeganism: Extreme Frugality or Extremely Crazy: Are you ready to become a freegan? This post shows both the good and bad of it.
85. Extreme Frugality: What Are Your Most Insanely Frugal Habits?: Jump into the discussion on this blog about extreme ways to save.
86. Extreme Frugality: Can You Outcheap 'Em All?: This post offers ideas on how to really pinch pennies.
87. Downsizing: Hidden Savings: Moving into a smaller home could save you big, as this post discusses.
88. Extreme Frugal Ideas: Do You Flush?: This post discusses whether or not saving on flushing really can save you money.
89. Special topics in extreme frugality: move in with the in-laws: It might sound painful, but this post does offer a real way to save big.
90. 5 Ways to Practice Extreme Frugality: Use these basic ideas to start practice your own extreme budgeting.
91. Extreme Frugality: 7 (Slightly Crazy) Ways to Save Money: Here you'll get some insights into what it takes to save on virtually everything.
92. More Extreme Frugality: Here you'll get some ideas on how to save, even if they are a bit extreme.
93. 100 Extreme Ways to Save Serious Money: This post is full of ideas that can help you save money.

Miscellaneous

These posts touch on a number of other frugality and budgeting issues.

94. Extreme Frugality: Attitude: Learn how your attitude can affect your commitment to extreme budgeting.
95. Extreme Frugality: Twenty Memories of My Mother: This post will teach you how to learn from past generations on how to be more frugal.
96. Extreme Frugality Examples from Around the World: Read this post to learn how people apply budgeting and frugality to their lives around the world.
97. Extra Frugal: How Frugal Can You Go: This post challenges you to go as frugal as you can, even offering some extreme ideas.
98. Back to basics: Green budget living tips: Here you can learn how going green could actually mean going frugal as well.
99. Seniors Living on a Budget: Learn why even seniors can benefit from a tight budget in this post.
100. "No-Spend Days:" How Many of Them Can You Fit In A Month?: How long do you think you could go without spending? This post challenges you day-by-day.