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Back To School Celebrating
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today my son started his first day of school in his kindergarten class. It was a very bittersweet moment for me as a mom. On one hand, I am just so darn proud of him and that we have made [...]
Another Summer Gone By
I am one of those people who is best in an air conditioned room, holding an iced tea, and lounging around on the couch. I loathe heat, sweating, and the rugged outdoors. You could say that I am a true girly-girl so you might be surprised what our favorite thing was this summer.
This summer has [...]
Summertime Slacker
I heard the splat before I turned around. It took me only a moment to watch half of a gallon of apple juice spill all over my kitchen floor. An overflowing fridge, a messy kitchen, and recyclables laying in a pile next to the trash can lay in a pile of juice all glared [...]
Six Months Until Christmas
As we calm down from the Fourth of July festivities, a new thought begins to loom in my brain. I can already hear it in my head, “Six months until Christmas.” Just what you wanted to hear, right?
Well, the frugal woman in me has to think early. In fact, I am sometimes the crazy lady [...]
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 [...]
Beach & Fun in the Sun Reads
Summer is the time when I actually can do some fun reading and I look forward to that time in the sun when I can kick my feet up with a good book. I know parents talk a lot about what we can do to motivate our children to read in the summer, but I [...]
Connecting With Others
I went to the library a few weeks ago and noticed that they had reissued, “Your Money Or Your Life,” by Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin. Our library has never carried this book so I was so excited to see the updated version now available.
For die-hard fans of this book though, the issue is pretty [...]


