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How Budgets Help In Making Big Life Decisions
Budgeting came late to Husband and I. Not that we didn’t watch over our funds carefully in years past, just that we found the years of self-employment to be quite challenging in setting careful budget categories. Now, I think in this season of life, we do much better with writing out a realistic budget each [...]
Meshing Love With Frugal Living
Husband calls and with emotion in his voice shares about his Mother’s Day visit to a dear friend of ours. Having just completed a work assignment at a conference on the East Coast, Husband drives north to spend some time with a widow woman now stricken heavy with Alzheimer’s. In her 90′s, this dear woman [...]
Frugality Isn’t Meanness
One of my domestic treasures is an old book formerly belonging to my great-grandmother. It is titled The Complete Home, An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Life and Affairs Embracing All the Interests of The Household, by Julia McNair Wright. Mrs. Wright wrote to help impoverished families economize during the economic crises of the 1870s, known as [...]
Hope For Dark Days
Pondering the different discussions heard regarding the economy and the future, my heart is heavy. Change seems to come quickly and I for one am not overly fond of much of what I see. A recent phone call with my mother finds her recalling many years ago when I was but a child and her [...]
Free Books
Coconut Flour (Gluten Free, Cookie, Muffin And Cake Recipes) Jump Start Your Gluten-Free Diet! Living with Celiac / Coeliac Disease & Gluten Intolerance (Let’s Eat Out with Celiac / Coeliac & Food Allergies!) Back To Beauty Home Edition: 25 Natural Cleaning Recipes For A Green Home And A Healthy Planet (Natural Home) Vegetable Container Gardening: [...]
Why I “Heart” Costco Pharmacy
My day at home catching up on the many tasks before me now had changed. A new cardiologist had eliminated a medication from Husband’s pill regime and as a precaution was doubling his blood pressure medication. With prescription in hand and Costco, our usual place for purchasing pills a forty minute drive, I decided to [...]
Free Books On Finance, Decluttering, Gardening, and Religion
You do not need a Kindle to take advantage of these offers. You can read them on various free reading apps If you’re curious, this is the Kindle I have, and I have used others and mine remains my favorite. Mine has Keyboard 3G, Free 3G + Wi-Fi and I don’t have commercial screensavers. Our [...]
Frugal Exercise
Lugging water to pour in my composter, digging up rocks to add to my frugal landscape and walking around my almost one acre property to water my little garden, trees and rosebushes, I chuckle to myself when thoughts come to mind that again I forgot to exercise. These same thoughts also seem to assail my [...]
Free eBooks on Frugality; 4/19/13
These books are free at the time of listing. This can change, so be sure to check the cost first, before you download. You do not need a Kindle to take advantage of these offers. You can read them on various free reading apps If you’re curious, this is the Kindle I have, and [...]
The San Antonio Riverwalk/A Frugal Date Or Vacation
Entering the San Antonio Riverwalk at a northern entrance, Husband and I revel in the beauty. It is early and the walk almost empty. We specifically have chosen a section with few stores or eating areas. The hibiscus, Mexican sage and plumbago are all in bloom. Trailing rosemary, purple heart and roses grace the paths as well. This lovely, frugal [...]
Free Books On Saving Money and More
These books are free at the time of listing. This can change, so be sure to check the cost first, before you download. You do not need a Kindle to take advantage of these offers. You can read them on various free reading apps If you’re curious, this is the Kindle I have, and I [...]
Hard Days Can Make Precious Memories
Recently driving in my car to spend some time visiting with BlissBoy, my almost two year old grandson, my thoughts focused on the desire of Husband and myself to provide memories and pleasures for our grandchildren. In my car was a basket packed with finger foods so my grandson and I could “picnic” on his [...]
Teen Drivers and Insurance
We had four teens at once in our household. It would have been five if there were just a few months less between our first and our fifth daughters. I was recently asked how we managed to afford insurance for teen drivers in a family our size with children as close together as our first [...]
Frugal Dream Homes
Have you seen the emphasis on designing or sharing about your dream home lately? Might be the influence of Spring being in the air. Now house dreaming can be fun or it can be fodder for discontent; one really needs to keep the proper perspective. Dreams can be a form of goal setting, but one [...]
Frugal Miscellany
My daughter is continuing her series on selling online with thrift store finds. Recently she and several readers discussed whether or not this is ethical. There are some outstanding free resources for educating yourself about just about everything under the sun- from Yale, to MIT, to others you may not have heard of. Here are [...]
