Archive for cheerful frugality
Cheerful Frugality Nurses Well
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s later than late. The house is dark. I’m up with the baby, feeling just a little bit trapped by his all-night nursing demands.
It’s at times like these that I need to remind myself that breastfeeding saves me a LOT [...]
Cheerful Frugality Seeks Value
In these depressing economic days, I always appreciate a little perspective and humor. Today, NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed Howard Davidowitz about the bad news for retailers.
(You can listen to the 5-minute story here.)
Steve Inskeep asked Davidowitz if the last 5 boom years have been a mirage. Davidowitz had a cheerfully realistic reply:
“We’ve had a free lunch, now [...]
Cheerful Frugality Nests
If there’s one fabulous thing about having your 3rd child, it’s that you can walk into Babies ‘R Us…
…and know you DON’T need 95% of its products!
Both Simple Mom and Baby Cheapskate recently compiled lists of baby stuff you really don’t need.
I smugly ticked down their lists. With this baby, I’m going lean & green: a [...]
Cheerful Frugality Considers Convenience
I type as the smell of microwave breakfast fills the air. (Yes, you’re still on the Frugal Hacks page!)
I’ve been zapping those Vans frozen waffles guilt-free…ever since reading my friend Busymom’s tongue-in-cheek post, “the misdirected war on convenience.”
It’s true–you can make almost anything at home. (I’m still waiting on my husband to jump on the biodiesel bandwagon with [...]
Cheerful Frugality Faces Financial Meltdown
I hesitate to turn on the radio these days: bail outs, buy outs, declining real estate values, gas shortages.
What is the cheerfully frugal person to do?
For my own sanity, I avoid what I call “Chicken Little” blogs–those which take pleasure in announcing that the sky is falling.
The clouds are looking closer to me, too–just because [...]
Cheerful Frugality Freezes On Top
I’ve been eagerly watching the “30 Days of Nothing” experiments gathered by Mary at Owlhaven. I don’t know about you, but my best work always comes within creative limits.
As part of her participation, Kim C. from Life In A Shoe shares a cheerfully frugal take on an unreliable chest freezer. By processing meats for the top freezer alone, [...]
Cheerful Frugality & Information Overload?
Have you checked out the Frugal Blogroll lately?
Wow!
I’ve often wondered what Amy Dacyzyn would write about, if she were writing for today’s frugal audience. She would have made an awesome blogger, wouldn’t she?
For me, the internet picked up where The Tightwad Gazette left off. I turned to early, bulletin-board forums for practical help from other frugal moms.
Now there’s [...]
