This summer, Seth Kugel will be heading to Scandinavia, perhaps the ultimate frugal challenge.
My good friend runs an Uber Frugal Challenge every January that has changed lives, or you can just search for savings challenges and find your options on Pinterest or personal finance blogs.
Next stops: Albania and a Greek island -- someplace that's within a day and a half's reach of Albania and that's a true Frugal Traveler challenge.
To get the best been-there, done-that frugal advice, GOBankingRates challenged some of the smartest finance experts and money bloggers out there to give their best money-saving tips in under a minute.
Such a comparison, she said, could give people the idea that their district is "wasting their money when it is actually enormously frugal but facing enormous challenges".
Hedlund has assigned herself other challenges, including frugal grocery shopping and buying (almost) nothing at all for an entire month.
CHEAP SLEEPS The biggest challenge to a frugal weekend in Napa Valley is lodging.
During his time off, he competed with Mr. Hong over who was the more frugal of the two and challenged him to push-up contests at the gym.
"Issues 1 and 2 will be cutting the defense budget and confronting Iran," said Michael Mandelbaum, a political scientist whose 2010 book, "The Frugal Superpower," dealt with the challenge of trying to manage the world on the cheap.
With the precipitous decline of the United States dollar, Canada has slid off the budget-travel map, and nowhere is the challenge to stay frugal greater than in Toronto, a city of 2.5 million whose ascendancy is not merely attributable to fluctuating exchange rates.
