I know that I said I’d start the new blog in October-and I left the sticky post up on my blog all month just HOPING that I’d be able to get it online before the end of the month. . . . but hey, I have barely had a chance to post on THIS blog…. Keep Reading

Well, ok, not famous. But I’ve been added to the aggregator on the right sidebar of Home Ec 101. For those of you who haven’t ever visited Home Ec 101–tagline “what you wish your mama taught you”– you should run on over and check it out! It’s a great site full of tips and tricks… Keep Reading

Although it hasn’t been posted as of 8:30 am Eastern Standard Time, the Festival of Frugality this week will be held over at Nature Moms. So don’t say I haven’t given you anything to read while I’m totally engrossed in the new house 🙂 Oh, and there was an interesting “Devils Advocate” post over at… Keep Reading

Well, I uploaded a bunch of photos of the work etc on the house to Flickr: Frugal Upstate’s House Renovations I hope that you all can see them! Flickr is a free photo sharing service online. Although I’ve used them a lot to find pictures for this blog (I just search a term and then… Keep Reading

The festival can be found over at FIRE Finance. Sorry-that’s all you get. Too tired to blog any more.

Obviously too busy to blog! I’ve been spending my days stripping wallpaper, scrubbing walls, scraping paint (Who takes a door with a glass window in it and wallpapers one side and paints the other on the glass?? Who I ask?) and such. Today I spent the entire day-from 9:15 am to 5:00 pm (minus two… Keep Reading

Today we closed on our new house. I had the car all packed up with my supplies and as soon as we were done I headed back to our new place to start stripping wallpaper. I don’t like wallpaper. I’m a big fan of “hanging on the wall” stuff-framed prints, bowls, plates, mirrors, even hooked… Keep Reading

I stopped by the new house last night to pick up the mail that had been delivered there-the insurance paperwork to be exact. The current owners have completely moved out, but are doing the cleaning work. They asked me if we wanted to keep the carpet remnants that were in each of the 2nd floor… Keep Reading

I like to check my Sitemeter at least once a day-I like to see where folks are coming from.* That’s how I found out about the South Bend Tribune article-I saw an inbound link I didn’t recognize, clicked on it, and up popped the article! Well, a few days ago I noticed an link from… Keep Reading

I just realized that when I mentioned the South Bend Tribune article the other day, I neglected to link back to it (in case anyone is interested!).