Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category

Maybe buying a Wii was frugal

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

I've created a monster. The monster is my mother-in-law. (I know. You're thinking, "And?") Actually, she's hooked on the bowling game in Wii Sports. She has a really, ummm, unconventional way of launching the ball down the lane, but who am I to argue when she wipes the ...

Do you notice frugality?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Sunday we went to the house of one of the families in our home group. It's a bit of a challenge to get everyone together at once, as one of the guys works unusual hours and a couple of us live a fair distance from the church, so we're ...

Bartering with the lawn-mower repair guy

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

We'd been having issues with our riding lawn mower for quite some time. Last fall right at the end of the season we broke one of the mower spindles halfway through running over the leaves in our yard. This spring, when we tried to get the mower out ...

The hefty time cost of “free” or “really cheap”

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

JLP of All Financial Matters passed on a local story about people waiting up to twelve hours just to get $40 worth of free gas. He didn't have the link to the article; I think this is it here: Dallas-area residents wait hours for free gas I agree with JLP that ...