A clean-the-inbox Q&A
My inbox is a bona fide disaster right now. In the best of times, when my schedule is fairly free, I often get behind on …
Q&A
How do you handle tipping?
Bee wrote in, wanting to pick the collective brain of the Frugal Girl community about tipping! Here’s what she said: I am curious how you …
Let’s answer some google searches!
On the dashboard of my blog, I have a little app that shows me some of the recent search phrases that are leading people to …
Have you tweaked one of my recipes?
My friend Polly suggested to me that we should have a discussion about tweaking the recipes that I’ve posted, and I think this is a …
Sort of a Q&A
I am doing a pretty poor job of keeping people’s names with their questions, so some of these are just gonna be general responses to …
Q&A | Nursing School Qs, plus shoes, a planner, and the abandoned house
First up, a few questions that have rolled in here and there about nursing school. I lost track of some of the names of questioners …
By request: what I’m currently doing with weight-lifting
This has come up a few times recently in the comments, sooo, here you go! But before we do that: this post is gonna talk …
Q&A | frugal mental health, “why did you get a cat”?, and phones for kids
A reader wrote me an email telling me about some family troubles, including the story of her son leaving an abusive marriage, with his little …
Q&A | grief over what could have been + durable kids shoes
Our two questions today are super-duper unrelated to each other. First up, the one on grief: Hi Kristen, how do you manage/ overcome the “what …
Cooking for 2-3 People? 6 Tips to Help!
We met Kaitlin, a Minnesota medical mama, in her Meet a Reader post. Since then, she’s been thrown into single mom life, and she left …
Q&A | Hawaii, podcasts, what I’m reading, & birthday freebies
I’m curious about how you feel about Hawaii. I mean it’s super exciting for Lisey but Hawaii is terribly expensive. Everything is vastly more expensive. …
Q&A | piano questions, plus a painful memory question
As I read the comments after I shared the video of me playing with an orchestra, I realized that a lot of you have never …
Q&A | Abandoned house updates, being the “higher-desire” saver, and more
First up, we have three questions from Cindy (the same RV-ing Cindy from this Meet a Reader post!) What are you living on right now, …
Q&A | Hungry Harvest, Nursing School, Sonia’s Hair, and Cheeseburger Soup
Hello, hello! It’s Q&A time. 🙂 Do you find Hungry Harvest cost-effective for your current family/life situation? -Linda From the beginning, I haven’t really gotten …
How do you budget? And what digital tools do you use?
Reese sent this question in December: Kristen, could we get a post about starting up some things for the new year, financially speaking? I’m just …