Granite Staters Return to Frugality

For centuries, New Hampshire Yankees have always been known for being resourceful. Now, with a recession and many people either losing their jobs or thousands of dollars from their retirement savings, Granite Staters have begun to return to these dime-stretching ways. They are shopping smarter, finding money-saving deals and reacquainting themselves with old school cost cutting measures. Today we’ll look at this trend, what some are doing to cut costs and if this trend will continue when good economic times come back.

(This program was originally broadcast April 15, 2009)

Guests

• Garen Daly, executive producer of FrugalYankee.com, and the “Frugal Yankee” a bi-weekly radio show on WNTN, Newton, MA and a weekly television show on NE Cable News
• Amy Schmidt, Associate Professor of Economics and Business at Saint Anselm College

We'll also be joined by

• Wendy Thomas, author of a weekly column in the Nashua Telegraph called “Simple Thrift”. She's also started a blog called Simple Thrift, where she post tips and experiences about having 6 kids and being thrifty.
• Melody Polakow, a recently laid off vegetarian chef living in Portsmouth; she writes the blog Melomeals, on creative and inexpensive vegetarian recipes on $3.33 a day or less