How to Get Self Published For Free! A Guest Post

Photo Credit- Bill Longshaw- Freedigitalphotos.net I was 9 years old the first time I got published. For an aspiring writer, nothing is more intoxicating than seeing your name in print, especially for the first time. I’ve been a writer as long as I can remember, with many ideas of books I wanted to publish. But […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Past Week and Accountability

This week has been challenging in more ways than one, but the main challenge being that 2 days this week we had no water, so it made it hard to be productive… We also had lots of rainy weather, which made laundry more difficult to do… Here’s my accountability for some specific struggles I’ve been […]

Hard Core Poor- A Book on Extreme Thrift by Kelly Sangree- A Book Review

Have you ever met someone, and thought to yourself that the two of you are kindred souls, that you just get each other completely? I have a good friend, Kelly Sangree, and even though we’ve never met in person, we are very close, since we seem to simply understand how the other one ticks. Kelly […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Past Week and Accountability for My Struggles

Hello there again, and thank you for tuning in to this week’s frugal accomplishment roundup, as well as my accountability challenge for the areas in which I struggle frugality-wise. Thankfully, it’s been a good week, where I haven’t slacked too much, and have been relatively productive in the frugal arena. So, as to accountability first […]

Fixing My Frugal Failings… Via Accountability

Some of my cloth diapers… including a cute lacy cloth diaper cover my neighbor just gave me as a hand me down I’ve spoken to some friends who are frequent readers about this blog, what I post on it, and asked them their input, what they’d like more of, what they enjoy reading most about, […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Past Week

Its that time of the week where I share with my wonderful readers all the ways in which I saved money in the last week, hopefully some of which would be ideas that you could use as well. This week was really a great one in the Penniless household! Lots of frugal stuff going on, […]

Having a Frugal Homeschooling Adventure

Yesterday morning, right after waking up, I turned to my 5 year old, Ike, and asked him “If you could do anything at all, what would you want to do today?” His answer? “I want to go exploring in the jungle.” Unfortunately, we don’t have a jungle near our house, but we do have a […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Week

We have had a really beautiful last week locally, which made me want to do one thing- get outdoors! The kids and I went out a lot because of this, and we made sure to bring along frugal food for ourselves on all our trips so we didn’t need to buy while out. And while […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Past Week

It’s that time again where I share with you all the fabulously frugal things I’ve done this past week- hopefully to inspire you and show you ideas where money can potentially be saved. Here’s what I did to save money this past week: Sunday: Made buckwheat porridge for breakfast. Went shopping and stocked up on […]