Welcome MSN Moneycentral readers! Thank you for visiting. I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I’m Jenn and this is Frugal Upstate-a blog dedicated to conscious spending and living within your means. A little bit about me personally. I’m a US Army veteran (11 years), happily married mother of 2 (Princess, 7… Keep Reading

We’ve had great entries in the Frugal Food Series for Eggs. Don’t forget to check them out, and to add any recipes of your own! Next week’s frugal food will be canned tuna, so plan your posts accordingly!

Here in the Binghamton NY area, we just found out that heating oil will go from $2.78 (end of this past winter price) to an estimated $4.30 (this coming winter). I don’t know about you, but that makes me think! I know that at our church our expected fuel costs are going to rise from… Keep Reading

I’ve got a book give away going on. Go to my post on Tie the Knot on a Shoestring and leave your best frugal wedding tip to be entered in the drawing. A great present for a bride to be if you are already married 🙂

For those of you who “Tweet”, I’m now on Twitter. So if the minutia of my life is really that interesting feel free to look me up and follow me-I’m under (surprise surprise) Frugal Upstate. If you have no idea what I’m talking about-don’t worry. It’s just another huge internet time sucker 🙂

On Monday June 7th we will start the “Frugal Food” Series. Let’s all help each other stretch our food dollars this summer by coming up with an exhaustive list of family tested and approved recipes using inexpensive ingredients. Playing along is easy! Each week I’ll introduce a food that gives you a lot of bang… Keep Reading

Leah Ingram (writer and author who blogs at The Lean Green Family) was kind enough to send me a copy of her book “Tie the Knot on a Shoestring”. Tie the Knot on a Shoestring is 262 page book, divided into 13 Chapters, each covering a different element of the wedding process. Each chapter concludes… Keep Reading

I get email updates from Land’s End, Eddie Bauer & JC Penney. One time about a year ago I posted one of the free shiping codes-I still regularly get hits from google searches on that post. Obviously the code I posted a year or so ago is way out of date, but just as obviously… Keep Reading

I have not quite finished with “Tie the Knot on a Shoestring”. Tune in tomorrow!

Today Yankee Bill and I have been married for 9 years! There have been good times and bad times-and I can’t imagine sharing it all with anyone else. I love you honey!