One of the topics that I particularly enjoy writing about is saving money and living frugally. Following you’ll find links to a selection of my top articles that each offer ten or more tips for some form of frugal living. In total it’s over 100 frugal living tips to help you save money!

1. Top Ten Tips for How to Grow a Frugal Garden
2. Twenty Simple Tips for Spending Less on Food without Resorting to Ramen
3. Ten Tips for Reducing Shipping and Handling Fees
4. Ten Ideas for Romantic Frugal Summer Dates
5. Ten Frugal Summer Fun Ideas for Families and Couples
6. Ten Ways to Turn your Travel into Cash
7. Ten Tips for Breaking an Internet Shopping Addiction
8. Twenty Five Frugal Ways to Say I Love You

Frugality is a popular topic during the recession but I hope that it’s one that remains popular with readers even after the economy improves. Do you think that it will?

Tags: Frugal Living, frugality, money saving tips, Personal Finance, save money, tips

I have a series of art pieces up in my room. Each is a photo of an individual that I took out of a magazine. I then glued it to canvas and painted on top of it to change the original image. Today’s photo is a picture of one of those art pieces. What do you think of photos of art?

Tags: art, collage, images, photo, picture

It’s a new month. I think that’s a good time to think about what’s going to be happening around here on the blog and I thought that’s something that you might want to know as readers as well. Here’s what you can expect from Diary of a Smart Chick this month:

• Photo of the Day. I haven’t gotten much feedback about whether or not the Photo of the Day is a good feature of this site. However, I’m enjoying the fact that it gives me a reason to take more photos so I’ll continue on with it through September. Your thoughts are welcome.
• Book Reviews and Author Interviews. Last month I started doing a “book of the day” as well but that didn’t really work out so well. Although I do read an average of 5-7 books per week I was finding it too difficult to really keep up with reviewing them all daily. However, I do want to feature more book reviews on the site. There will be approximately one review per week this month and that will include at least one interview with the author of a book.
• One giveaway. I did a giveaway last month that worked out really well so I’ll be trying to do at least one more this month.
• Question of the Week. This will be a new feature on Diary of a Smart Chick. It will be a simple question that I’ll pose to my readers for you to answer and debate in the comments section. This will be going live every Tuesday morning starting next week. Let me know what you think of it!
• Links to my Work Around the Web. Part of what I do here on Diary of a Smart Chick is to link to the work that I’m doing around the web in order to share it with others and to create an online portfolio. When you see links on the site that’s often where they’re directing you to so if you’re interested in my writing then you may want to follow those links.

What else would you like to see on Diary of a Smart Chick?

Tags: Blog, blog update, question of the week