{"id":13645,"date":"2014-08-25T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/?p=13645"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:05:07","slug":"money-saving-monday-august-25","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/money-saving-monday-august-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Saving Monday: August 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13159\" alt=\"Money roll\" src=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the last week of summer \u2013 or at least, there is only one week left until Labor Day. Fall is a great time to tighten the budget for a while and save money as we prepare for the holidays season; but if you do need to spend, we have great tips to help you keep it under control:<\/p>\n<p>In NECN\u2019s own Money Saving Monday, business reporter Peter Howe chatted with our CEO Jon Lal to find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/news\/business\/Money-Saving-Mondays-Autumn-Shopping-272564101.html\">how to save money on fall shopping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Finance offers us a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyfinance.com\/2014\/08\/25\/common-shopping-traps-avoid\/\">common shopping traps to avoid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After Labor Day, but before the holidays, is a cheap time to travel. Cut costs even more with these <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/more-money-saving-travel-apps-133000347.html\">money-saving travel apps<\/a>, via Yahoo! Finance.<\/p>\n<p>More help for college students comes from Consumer Reports, which tested the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/news\/2014\/08\/college-textbook-shopping-test-amazon-s-prices-most-consistently-low-for-used-books\/index.htm\">cost of text books at five different online stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with your frugal shopping this week!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxbrackets.org\/images-of-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Image credited to TaxBrackets.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/money-saving-monday-august-25\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"excerptimage alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>It\u2019s the last week of summer \u2013 or at least, there is only one week left until Labor Day. Fall is a great time to tighten the budget for a ... <a title=\"Money Saving Monday: August 25\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/money-saving-monday-august-25\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Money Saving Monday: August 25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[262,2183,2060,1263,1413,2184,2182],"class_list":["post-13645","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-articles","tag-budget","tag-fall-shopping","tag-money-saving-monday","tag-personal-finance","tag-saving-money","tag-text-books","tag-travel-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}