What's The Big Deal About "Painlessly Frugal"?

*sigh*  Another personal finance blog?  What makes this one worth reading?  Well, in a nutshell, I've found that in my PF geekery, most of the blogs I've come across either tend to focus on large goals (funding your retirement, starting businesses,) or painfully small cost-cutting frugality measures that are usually more trouble than they are worth.  While these sites can be terrific, there seem to be something of a dearth of PF blogs that focus exclusively on concrete measures for cutting down your everyday bills painlessly and quickly.  

There are a number of ways to get the products and services that most of us use every day for far less than the average, and this blog is dedicated to slashing these everyday costs to the bone without poring over coupon books, churning your own butter, or using a secret password.  (Make no mistake, coupons WILL be a part of this blog, but not in such a way so that you end up painstakingly combing through ten different websites in order to creatively double your coupons so that you can buy a single tube of toothpaste for fifty cents.)  This blog is dedicated to finding huge everyday discounts for everyday people that can be implemented as soon as you finish reading the post.  

While planning for retirement, setting up businesses, et cetera is a great way to achieve financial security and independence in the long run, I really believe that making smaller-but-effective easy changes in the short to medium term is a great way to stay motivated.  I use these tips myself, and they've helped me to become a self-supporting freelancer who lives her life with minimal stress.  Here's hoping you find these tips to be as awesome as I do!

--Kim