Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category
Friday, December 25th, 2009
Merry Christmas! We're at my wife's parents today celebrating Jesus's birthday.
If you've had a lot of snow (as we have) here's a quick treat if you have some (real) maple syrup around and a candy thermometer:
Collect some snow in a bowl. (Make sure the snow is all right, meaning that ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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