Lots of you had mastermind questions after I posted about FinCon, so even though this is a little off-topic, I’m going to answer them here. What the heck is a mastermind group? Mastermind groups are not unique to blogging. In fact, the term/idea goes back to 1925, which is quite some time before the internet! […]

Last week, I went to Fincon19, my very first blogging conference. Well, actually, I think it was the first conference of any type I’ve gone to in my 41 years on this planet. You guys said you wanted to hear more about it, so I’m here to answer some questions! Why have I never gone […]

It is considered to be very bad blogging etiquette to pop on and say, “sorry for not posting!”, but here I am. I have a couple of posts in the works but none of them are quite ready to publish and I don’t have time to finish any of them this morning. And I figured […]

Readers. For the first time ever, no one got all the cookie answers right! In previous years, someone eventually got them all correct, but this time 0/116 got them all in order. A lot of you were really close, but boy, that last cookie stumped a bunch of you. Almost no one guessed it was […]

It’s a little crazy to think of, but it’s true: I’ve been blogging here at The Frugal Girl for a decade now. That practically makes me a senior citizen in the blogging world.   I mean, in 2008, when I started blogging, the blogosphere was just a fraction of the size it is now. Social […]

A reader recently wrote in to ask how to find recipes here on The Frugal Girl. Chipotle Chicken Kebabs, in case you were wondering. And here’s a tip on storing chipotle chilies. So, I’m here to help! I do often link to recipes in my What I Spent, What We Ate posts, but there are […]