Archive for Archive for June, 2008
Cheerful Frugality Cooks From Afar
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just a quick post from sunny vacation! At Like Merchant Ships I mentioned that I’d be bringing along some meal starters , so I could treat the in-laws to a couple of meals.
This seemed only natural to me–I’m a mom, [...]
Saturday Roundup: Birthday edition
Readers hacks for this week:
Livingalmostlarge says: I discuss if people have noticed the rising food prices by shrinking of packaging? Is it real? Or not?
Confession time: This post is not fresh. It was prepared 2 days ahead of time and flash-frozen, in the hopes that I would be snuggling a New Baby by Saturday. [...]
Kitchen Scraps
Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted.
When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”
Here are some small ways [...]
Showcase: You! week 5
It’s Thursday. Usually that means that it’s time to interview a Frugal Blogroll member, but today it also means that I just might be in labor. I nearly always go into labor on a Thursday, and this time seems to be no exception. Feel free to pop over for updates if you’re not too shy.
In [...]
Kicking Myself Out of the Frugal Hack’s Club
I begin my entry today with a confession… I was not frugal this week. I had made the decision to cut our satellite television package and I had many grand ideas for how wonderful it would be without television. I posed all of the wonderful scenarios we would have this summer- playing board games, talking [...]
Saturday Roundup: Countdown edition
We’re counting down to a new baby around here: the due date is just 7 days from today. How does that tie in to a roundup of frugal links? I don’t know, but it’s sure on my mind. Wait - I’ve got it. Making stuff is more frugal than buying it, right?
But on to business.
Here [...]
The Lowly Envelope
I’m reading Doris Longacre’s Living More with Less, and while I disagree with some parts, I agree with many others.
On page 23, she talks about the value of re-using envelopes to write on the blank insides. While I don’t really agree with her reasons why, this is something we’ve done. There are several [...]
