My Latest Frugal Shopping Scores
Have I mentioned how much I love going to the market in my nearby city? When life gets busy and I can’t make it there to do my shopping, I miss it. And the vendors miss me too. My last trip there was the other day, and the vendors asked why they haven’t seen me […]
My Frugally Decorated Beach Theme Bathroom- Reveal
The day I went to pick out the tiles and fixtures for my new house I was very sick and hadn’t realized it yet. My head was spinning and I could barely see straight and I had a headache, which certainly did not make picking out the various colors and patterns for our tiles easy […]
What To Do With Lots of Free Expiring Milk – Again!
This is 1/10th of the milk I got, free Because I live in an area that is considered to be of a lower socio-economic background (gotta love a community like this, as we’re all in the same frugal living boat, so not much pressure to keep up with the Jones), from time to time we […]
A Fun Lacto-Fermentation Class
Yesterday I gave two women a private fermenting class in their homes. Though I’ve discussed many times how to ferment various things on my blog, some people prefer a more hands on approach, to have their hands held while they’re being walked through the steps in fermenting. I decided to share with you here, in […]
Homemade Date Seed Coffee Substitute Recipe and Instructions
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself! I had a hard time bringing myself to write coffee on here, because it isn’t… covfefe worked well as a replacement…. Growing up, I never liked or drank coffee. I didn’t understand the appeal of the bitterness of the drink. I did always like the smell, though, just never drank […]
Cooking Dinner With No Inspiration
People think of me as a foodie, as someone who is always chock full of ideas and inspiration for cooking my family and myself delicious meals. I’ll admit, lately it has happened to me many times that I’ve had literally zero inspiration, that I can’t even begin to come up with ideas of what to […]
Book Swap Treasures!
Last night I went to a book swap with friends and made some new friends there too. I came home with so many books! Yes, this many! Total cost? 0. I should mention that I love reading. And that the library system in my country is nothing like the library system with which I grew […]
My Latest Super Frugal Grocery Shopping Trip
As I mentioned in my recent post on saving money without time or energy, because I’ve been very busy, I haven’t had a chance to make it to the market to buy super frugal produce. However, produce prices have been a little crazy even at my cheaper local shops, so when I went to the city […]
Free Food with a Little Bit of Hard Work
As someone who only recently started gardening, and really has been enjoying the fruits of her harvest, I enjoyed this post contributed by reader, Tim, himself an avid gardener. In today’s society, saving money can be a task in itself. Due to rising prices met in a person’s daily routine on everything from gasoline to […]
A Frugal Fun Birthday Party for My Boys
I like making my children birthday parties, to show them that we celebrate their presence in our lives, and I always have fun coming up with ideas of how to do it frugally but not sacrifice on the fun. Often I have themes for birthday parties, but this time I didn’t stick with a theme- […]
