Seattle, Washington – Can you really Visit on a Budget?
I love being able to have a great life without spending a lot of money. Though traveling isn’t really in the budget for our family right now, I love reading about all the various frugal travel options out there… as a maybe, for the back of my mind. I especially loved this guest post about […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week and Accountability For My Struggles
Welcome to the weekly post where you get to see the good, the bad, and the ugly… and what “real life frugality” actually looks like in my case. This week wasn’t the best week in terms of frugality, but it certainly wasn’t the worst either. Part of the “non frugality” was actually a conscious effort […]
Foraging Wild Chamomile
When I open my front door, I see a sea of green, at the moment, interspersed with yellow flowers. If I look a little more carefully, I can see little white and yellow flowers hidden among all the yellow. Those little flowers that everyone around me sees every day but doesn’t pay attention to, because […]
Homemade Carob Powder and Carob Syrup from Foraged Carobs
Once upon a time I thought cocoa was bad for you. I know many still think that, but I’m not in that camp anymore. However, when I thought cocoa was bad for you, I learned that carob powder works to make a decent replacement for cocoa powder. Well, when I say replacement, I don’t mean […]
Top Ways to Get the Most out of Technology as a Parent on a Budget
My kids are of the new millennium, and as such, have such an awareness of technology and how it can be used. They don’t even understand the concept that when Mommy was a little kid, we didn’t even have a computer at home, and then when we did, at first it was without internet, and then later […]
Can Urban Foraging Actually Feed Poor People? A Response
Mallow, one of the most time/energy efficient plants to forage My friend Kelly sent me a link to an article, talking about whether or not urban foraging can actually be used to help working poor not starve; she thought I might have a good answer to that. I certainly do. I not only enjoy foraging […]
A Fun and Frugal Food Decorating Event
It gets really amusing sometimes when you have a blog like this one, and many of your friends read your blog. Take last night, for example. We had an event that I organized and ran, and when the event was finished, my friend, Debbie, a regular reader, who attended, asked “So, Penny, will you write […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week and Accountability For My Struggles
Thank you for joining me once again where I have my little accountability session- tell you what I have been struggling with this week in a frugal sense, and share what accomplishments I’m proud of. So, I’ll admit, I really wasn’t good with laundry and cloth diapering this week…. I had a lot of things […]
An Awesome Get Together With a Like-Minded Family
You know how sometimes you have one of those days that are just so perfect, everything going so well, but they just are so full that they leave you exhausted afterwards? Today was one of those days. I have a friend, Holly, who is just really awesome and we’re so similar in so many ways. […]
Sharing My Love of Foraging
Purslane- one of my favorite foraged veggies I’ve been foraging for years now. Since I was a little kid, I was foraging a few things here and there (mainly jewel weed, wood sorrel, and mullberries), but I’ve probably been intensively foraging for the past 4 and a half years, and blogging about it here and […]
