Our New Beautiful and Frugal Small Living and Dining Room
In the past few days a few different people asked me questions about living situations that brought to mind some things that were at the back of my mind for much of the duration of my marriage, and especially in the last 5 years where we lived in 484 square feet, with a family of […]
Foraging and Homemade Miso
My dad makes homemade miso. When I was a kid, I think he made miso once or twice, but since moving abroad with the family, he has made miso pretty regularly for a few years now. I have been asking and asking him to write me a post on miso making, but that hasn’t happened […]
Rental Kitchen Mostly Installed Ourselves!
So yesterday I posted that we installed our Ikea kitchen cabinets (upper) ourselves, first time doing cabinets, and it was much easier than we expected. Putting the cabinets together was a cinch, and installing them was not super simple, but easy enough. Today, my 9 year old son and I put together the rest of […]
We Finished Installing Our Ikea Kitchen
We did it! My kitchen is now complete! After 9 year old Lee and I built all of our Ikea kitchen cabinets, yesterday Mike and I installed them into our kitchen. If I want to be honest about who did what, I went to the hardware store to get advice about what type of screws […]
Building Our Own Ikea Kitchen- Because We Can!
The kitchen, as it arrived… Yesterday in Ikea I placed an order for a complete kitchen, and as I paid for the delivery they assumed they also were charging me for assembly. When I told them that we were assembling it ourselves, they said “Oh, your builders are putting it together for you?” I told […]
Homemade DIY Pallet Nightstand or End Table
I went to Ikea today to pick up some more things for our home and to place an order for the kitchen, and when I got home, I saw that Mike had started working on another DIY project out of pallets we collected- a nightstand for me. I had mentioned that in our room I […]
Feeling A Bit Like A Fraud
For the past little bit I’ve been having this thought running through my head- that I’m not being the Penny I’ve always been. Since I started packing and preparing for our move, and since we’ve moved in, in many ways I feel like an impostor, a fraud, and just not myself. Why? Two months ago, […]
PSA: Watch What You’re Dissing
As someone who has lived a frugal life by necessity pretty much since I got married at 18 years old 10 years ago, I’ve gotten my fair share of remarks from people about how we live our life. Many people don’t necessarily understand why I do things the way that I do, and I have […]
Almost All Moved In!
I want to apologize for my long absence from my blog! We got our keys to the brand new apartment that we bought while in the building stages on Monday morning, and by Monday evening we started moving in… Yes, started… I was hoping to have a great post to share with you about how […]
Making a Potty Seat Out of Pallets
I mentioned in a previous post that I suspect that my littlest one, Rose, has high functioning autism like her big brother Ike. Part of what makes me suspect that is her dedication to certain routines, and her refusal to change them. Rose has been potty trained for at least a year, if not more, […]
