Foraging For Pine Nuts- Revisited
After reading my post last week about foraging for pine nuts, I’m sure many of you were turned off from ever foraging for pine nuts. I mean, it was crazy hard work with very few results. I had given up on harvesting pine nuts. That is, until Butter Powered Bike commented about how she foraged for […]
Foraging For Pine Nuts- Revisited
After reading my post last week about foraging for pine nuts, I’m sure many of you were turned off from ever foraging for pine nuts. I mean, it was crazy hard work with very few results. I had given up on harvesting pine nuts. That is, until Butter Powered Bike commented about how she foraged for […]
Chemical Free Frugal Hair Washing
Severus Snape, not as greasy as described in the book They used to call me greaseball. When I was a kid, I had long, straight, thin, stringy hair which accumulated grease like mad. Sort of like Severus Snape, only a female version. Once, I was even got in trouble in school because the teacher thought […]
Chemical Free Frugal Hair Washing
Severus Snape, not as greasy as described in the book They used to call me greaseball. When I was a kid, I had long, straight, thin, stringy hair which accumulated grease like mad. Sort of like Severus Snape, only a female version. Once, I was even got in trouble in school because the teacher thought […]
Birthday Celebrations- Frugally?
Photo credit On Friday, my husband Mike celebrated his twenty fifth birthday, and I celebrated my twenty third. Yes, my husband and I share a birthday. It makes things easier in the frugal sense- one less celebration to figure out how to celebrate frugally. You might have wondered- how does the most frugal couple in […]
Birthday Celebrations- Frugally?
Photo credit On Friday, my husband Mike celebrated his twenty fifth birthday, and I celebrated my twenty third. Yes, my husband and I share a birthday. It makes things easier in the frugal sense- one less celebration to figure out how to celebrate frugally. You might have wondered- how does the most frugal couple in […]
Frugal Educational Homeschooling Material
I get some strange looks when I’m out during the day and I have my 3.5 year old, Lee, with me. Where I live, the culture is very “into” the idea of organization and structure for kids and “freedom” for mom. Consequently, many parents, even sometimes stay at home moms, will send their 3 month […]
Frugal Educational Homeschooling Material
I get some strange looks when I’m out during the day and I have my 3.5 year old, Lee, with me. Where I live, the culture is very “into” the idea of organization and structure for kids and “freedom” for mom. Consequently, many parents, even sometimes stay at home moms, will send their 3 month […]
Happiness, Perspective, and the Choices We Make
Recently, some friends and readers have requested that I include some new, exciting, and fresh material for my blog. I mean, I thought I was doing that. I was sharing some new information that I found interesting and helped cut expenses… but after doing some soul searching and blog reading of some very thought provoking […]
Some Grocery Shopping Questions
Someone recently asked me for some advice on how to cut her spending. As usual, my first suggestion was to try to cut her grocery bill. Why do I suggest cutting grocery bills as the first way to cut expenses? Because its the most flexible, most of the time. You can’t pick up and move […]
