Have you been on shoetringmag.com recently? If not, why not?

Have you ever been stuck for cash and don't want to have to get someone to lend you some? Well here's the answer. It's also a good guide for how to go environmentally friendly. Shoestring Magazine is run by Melissa Massello and was started up in 2008. Since then it has had visits from a wide variety of people but is especially popular with university students, who, with all the costs of university, can find themselves looking at the site for cheap buys but what they probably don't think of is that they are saving the planet in their own small way at the same time.


The site gets 140,000 visitors per month. The site includes articles about Lifestyle, Shopping, DIY, Food & Drink, Entertainment and Home and Garden. Other sections include Money, Travel and Kids and Pets. The site has a newsletter called The Gumshoe Files and it also has a writer for each topic and with one million six hundred eighty thousand views a year, it’s a pretty popular site.

Although when you think about it, it comes down to the argument of whether the site itself actually harms the environment. Looking at the site and using the computer to edit things on the site, probably will but the site itself will most likely do no harm to the environment. I’m not trying to criticize the site or its owner but this is an argument that will probably never be resolved. In the meantime while you think that one through, you can go on the site and have a look around. You never know, you might find some useful tips to reduce your carbon footprint and save you money.