Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category

No More Pencils, No More Books…

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

No More Teacher's Dirty Looks! It's been a long week this past week. Oh wait- it's only Tuesday you say? My oldest two boys have been out of school for one week. My husband is now on his second week of travel for work. I got lazy for lunch and we had ...

Help the Frugal Failure (Pretty Please with a Cherry on Top?)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

This weekend I tried my hand at The Simple Dollar's homemade bread recipe. It looked easy enough and I figured I could save some money by making my own bread. As you can see from the picture it didn't quite turn out like the fluffy loaf of bread that Trent ...

Some Last Minute Reminders for the Financially Frugal

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

If you are anything like me life is busy and you tend to forget about things. I often hear about things and think "Oh-I should do that" only to completely forget about it a minute later and completely miss out. Here are a few things happening this week you might ...

I’m Not Jealous of Your Lexus

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

A couple weeks ago I was at the salon getting my hair cut by Javier (*name changed to protect the innocent). It had been a couple of months since I had been in for a trim so we we updated each other on what we've been doing. He told ...

Could You Live on $12,000 a Year?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

I ran across this article that detailed one woman's goal to live off only $1,000 a month this year. Not only does she plan to live off of it, but she'll be also be tithing and adding to her savings account in the meantime. My first thought was there is NO ...