My Latest Super Frugal Shopping Trips
I love a good bargain. My husband frequently sees what I buy cheaply and laments that I “brought the entire market home with me”. But yes, I do have a hard time passing up a great bargain, and yesterday’s shopping trips were no exception. Here’s my total shop from yesterday. Guess how much it cost? […]
Getting Air Conditioners and Making a Cardboard Playhouse
Yesterday, for the first time in our married lives, we got air conditioners for our home. Growing up, we actually never had air conditioners, but just used fans, and were totally fine. A year or two before we moved away from Northeast Ohio, my parents installed central air conditioning in our house to increase its […]
Homemade Pallet Spice Rack- DIY Makeover
I wrote in a previous post how many spices I use, and how the little bitty spice racks I see them selling all over doesn’t hold nearly enough spices for me, and the few I’ve seen that seem somewhat large enough are extremely over priced. I was overjoyed when my husband made me a homemade spice […]
Our New Upcycled Guest Bed — Completely Free and Very Easy!
When we were first married we lived in a two bedroom apartment, one room for us and one for guests. Then we had our first child and while he started off in our room, by a certain point he ended up getting the second bedroom, and we lost our guest bedroom. When we moved to […]
Homemade Pallet Trash Can
My husband loves building out of pallet wood. I’ve already shown a couple of projects my husband made out of pallet wood (sometimes with my help, but more often than not without). He likes building out of pallet wood because it’s free, easy to find, and you end up with a nice rustic look, of which […]
Foraging Wild Swiss Chard or Sea Beet in my Backyard!
I love Swiss chard but it’s not so cheap to buy locally. I mean it’s not a fortune but it’s more than I’d like to pay for a leafy green. In my home growing up we grew Swiss chard in our garden and enjoyed it. When married and in our first home, the one with […]
No Shame, a Little Guts, and a Lot of Free Food
Today I went to the market to meet with my friend Juli, who was coming with her kids, and she wanted me to show her around the market. My fridge was already full from the last time I was there and got so much food for very little money, but I did need some fruit, […]
Preserving More Produce
I truly feel blessed whenever I get my hands on free produce. The other day, once my fridge was already mostly filled after my last nearly free “grocery shopping” trip, I was gifted with even more produce, in very large amounts. It was predominantly extra large sweet potatoes, celery, and carrots, with a smaller amount […]
Paleo Update, and Insane Foraging and Extreme Frugal Food Shopping
I feel like those reading my blog for a while think I’m so inconsistent, and terrible with follow through, because I can’t count how many times I said I’d do something… and then fell off the bandwagon. But I think that’s life, and especially when there are a lot of things going on, its hard […]
Our Urban Homestead’s Kitchen Today
I feel like a real homesteader, you know, those farm wives that are all self sufficient and do everything themselves from raising their own food to transforming it to something that will feed their family for long periods of time, etc… all entirely from scratch. Though we don’t live on a farm, what we have […]
