Motivation

Why talking/blogging about the good stuff is, well, good.

August 31, 2011

Sometimes, sunshine-y, look-at-the-glass-half-full sort of bloggers get flack from their readers over their incessant cheerfulness. “Be real!” “Life isn’t perfect.” “It’s all a sham.” “No one could be that happy all the time.” I haven’t experienced a lot of this, but I’ve seen people shred bloggers like Kelle Hampton (one commenter worried that reading her [...]

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5 Tips For Beating Frugal Burnout

August 18, 2011

If you’re new to this whole being-responsible-with-your-money-thing, you may occasionally hit bumps in the road where you feel like all of your motivation is gone. Heck, even seasoned frugal people sometimes feel like throwing in the towel (I often want to buy everything in the grocery store or order a pizza instead of cooking dinner!). [...]

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Frugal Girl Confessions

July 26, 2011

On Sunday, I was chatting with some friends at church, and my friend Karyn told me that I needed to trot out a few more of my failures here to make her feel better (and she’s sure that the rest of you would enjoy reading about my flaws too). So, here you go: I haven’t [...]

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Staying up in a down economy

July 14, 2011

Yesterday I got this note from a reader, and instead of sending my reply back to just her, I thought I’d share my response here because I’m sure she’s not the only one wondering how to navigate these tough economic times. Hello Kristen, I enjoy reading your blog. I literally have it filed under “Happy [...]

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A current happy list

June 14, 2011

As you regular readers know, I think contentment is a key part of living a frugal life, and part of being content is focusing on your blessings. (In case you’re new, you might want to read my series of posts about contentment (you can click on the link or on the tomato picture to be [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving! | My 2010 Thankful List

November 25, 2010

(my baking efforts from yesterday) For those of you that are new-ish…a Thankful List is an annual tradition around these here parts. I list 50 things I’m thankful for, in very random order, just because having to think of 50 things stretches my contentment/thankfulness muscles a bit. I don’t usually look over my previous lists [...]