Well, we made a bid on the house, they counter bid, and now we counter bid again. . . . so we are waiting. Then we get the paper today and see that this house is on the front of the real estate section and they have an open house scheduled for Sunday. Grrrr. This… Keep Reading

First, a quick poll:This weeks festival is held over at Frugal for Life again. Dawn did a rather minimalist version this week, simply listing the titles of the entries and splitting all 38 of them into 3 categories-blogs ~Dawn had never heard of before, blogs she was familiar with, and entries with a unique perspective…. Keep Reading

Sorry folks, I know that some of you must have been wondering where my post was yesterday. I did promise Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the summer! To start with, my laptop is on the fritz. OK, so that is a slight exaggeration-the fan started making a very loud whirring noise-you could hear it in… Keep Reading

This week’s Festival of Frugality is over at Frugal for Life. There are 40 entries in this weeks festival, and ~Dawn used a cute “newspaper” story format. Here are a few that jumped out at me this week, along with my thoughts on them: Leah is a new blogger over at Suddenly Frugal. Here article… Keep Reading

This weeks Festival is over at a regular read of mine-Frugal Babe! She’s got a nice new template for her blog this week, very simple and clean. There were 46 entries this week, including quite a few new posters, such as We Go to Cool Places (a post on “couchsurfing“), Campus Grotto (finding scholarships), SEO… Keep Reading

Rhonda Jean over at Down to Earth writes about “Simple living in a complex world”. She lives and writes from Australia. Today she wrote a great article stressing that simple living is not about where you live-you don’t have to move to the country etc. She points out that such a huge lifestyle change can… Keep Reading

Liz from Abundant Grace is the winner* of the Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Give-Away drawing here at Frugal Upstate! Her question was: I’m just starting to see the many benefits and deals you can get by being frugal and what blessings that come from it. Do you have any great ideas for getting coupons… Keep Reading

I keep forgetting to update the Lunchbox Report in the right sidebar. The “Breakfast Snack” and “Lunch” portion are on hiatus for the summer, so there is no data to enter for those. Our typical summer breakfasts include: Yogurt (Aldi’s or Save a Lot brand~about $.33 each)Fried EggCereal (Store brand or bought at the dollar… Keep Reading

This week the Festival of Frugality is over at “Frugal Law Student”. There were an amazing 40 entries! Wow, that was a lot of reading. A few titles particularly caught my eye: The Chief Family Officer wrote about keeping your old cell phone when you buy a new one. One benefit that he didn’t mention… Keep Reading

I was reading through my feeds this morning, with an article completely planned out when-WHAM-I came across it. A mention of the Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Giveaway on The Homespun Heart. Free Stuff! I LOVE Free Stuff! What fun! There went my carefully crafted plans for today’s post (Christmas in July anyone?), because this… Keep Reading