Carrie and Mrs. Picky Pincher told me they were both writing Day In The Life posts with an emphasis on frugality, and they invited me to join in. So, here’s how my life went on Monday of this week. Morning I got up, ironed some clothes for Mr. FG while he showered, and also packed […]

I’ve been working on tracking my time this month, so I thought I’d share one of my days with you all, since I haven’t done that in a while. At first I thought, oh, I should pick a more typical day, but then I looked over my week and realized that none of my days […]

Yesterday, I was reading a post on Laura Vanderkam’s blog, in which she wrote about how she spends very little time cooking. Readers chimed in and shared about dinnertime at their houses, and I thought about leaving a comment, but then decided it might be fun to just write a blog post comparing and contrasting […]

Yesterday, I: -made whole wheat pancakes to use up some buttermilk -cut Joshua’s hair, a job I don’t particularly love, but which I figure has saved me almost $2500 over the course of his life so far. (I’m assuming $15/cut, between the price of the cut and a tip, but I’m not sure how accurate […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, I know…you’ve been asking me for a new installment for quite some time now. I often think about writing one and then decide against it because that day is an odd day. But really, most days and weeks have something unusual going on, don’t […]

Since we spent all day yesterday hanging out with my family celebrating Christmas, I don’t have a wonderfully practical, helpful, frugal post for you. So instead of nothing, I’ll just share what’s on my camera’s memory card…life as seen through my lens. The hair that Zoe cut with the buzzer is growing out. But right […]