Are in deed free! Princess lost her first tooth this evening. She was practically beside herself with excitement! But she really wanted to show the family at Easter Dinner, so she wrote the tooth fairy this note asking her to wait until Monday: You can’t buy memories like that. Oh, and in case you are… Keep Reading

If you have a blog, this coming April will be the second annual amateur “Improve Your Blog Month”. Check out last year’s roundup. So start thinking and keep looking here for details!

Cheap, Healthy, Good has a great article on Recession Proofing Your Diet, with tons of links to great resources. So if you’ve started thinking about how you are going to handle your food budget this year as prices start to climb, this article is a great resource! It even provides a link back to your… Keep Reading

Photo by James Jordan via Flickr.com I have officially got my basic white bread recipe memorized!* I did it from memory this morning and then double checked to make sure I was right: 1 1/2 C water, 2 TBS softened butter, 4C flour, 3 TBS Dry Milk, 2 TBS Sugar, 2 tsp salt, 1 1/2… Keep Reading

Photo by Lance and Erin via flickr.comNote: This is a European race car-but it has the right name! So how can a blogger turn a 6 hour Saturday class on drivers safety into a post on frugality? Well, watch and be amazed! To start with, the class is offered at a discount by the union… Keep Reading

Mrs. Micah has created a new wiki called the Finwikian! She did an incredible amount of work in compiling a huge list of PF bloggers (I was thrilled to be included-some PF folks don’t really consider frugality blogs to be part of their “area”) and completely filling out an about page for each of them…. Keep Reading

Photo by JimmieHomeschoolMom via Flickr.com Way back in August Jimmie wrote in asking whether cloth or paper napkins were more economical. Apparently this was a particularly pressing question for her as she lives in China, and their version of paper napkins is not quite what ours is! I wrote my answer in “Readers Question-Which is… Keep Reading

I just got this paper from Princess’s bookbag-and it is so funny and cute I had to share. Translation: What is your favorite food: My favorite food is sushi! and my other favorite food is pizza. What does it look like: It looks like balck on the outside in the inside its white. How does… Keep Reading

Wind up with a To Do list that looks like this?

I’ve got a few plans for the blog this spring/summer that I wanted to clue you all into. April will be the second annual “Amateur Improve Your Blog Month”. Last year’s was fun!-Check out the round up for it in the “Improve Your Blog Month Poll” where I posted links to everyone who participated and… Keep Reading