Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Getting a bolstered emergency fund is a great idea now. (It usually is, but now especially.) One way to get to a decent cushion is to spend less so that the extra can go into savings.
Many kinds of expenses can be cut, but the easiest ones to eliminate are ones ...
Posted in Budgeting, Frugal Living, Personal Finance | 2 Comments »
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Many of my colleagues have heard about the recent cease and desistery regarding the trademarking of what I thought was a fairly common term for a frugal woman which, by the way, rhymes with barista. (Here's some context.)
But I'm not here to take sides. No-sir-ee-bob. I'm just here to provide ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Fun Money Facts | 9 Comments »
Friday, September 25th, 2009
We just arrived in West Virginia to visit my wife's parents and her grandmother who's visiting them. We're bringing along a three-month-old puppy that we got a few weeks ago from a friend.
We stopped at Five Brothers for dinner and ate outside so that Taffy could get out, too. While ...
Posted in Free Stuff, Frugal Living | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Cube farms are great for overhearing little bits of random quotable goodness, like this gem from one of my (male) co-workers while he was talking on the phone with his wife (I can only assume):
I like to smell like a man, but sometimes I like to smell like a different-smelling ...
Posted in Frugal Living | 3 Comments »
