In case you haven’t heard, they have recalled a bunch of the most common Thomas the Train wooden train pieces because of lead based paint. You can check out the article detailing the Thomas the Train recall, and see photos of the recalled Thomas the Train pieces. Buddy has several of the pieces shown. I… Keep Reading

YEAH! When Buddy and I were checking the garden yesterday we found that our Sugar Snap Peas were ready to pick! Yum. This is very exciting-for those of you in the south, remember I am in New York-No one I know has any produce in their gardens yet. The farmers markets won’t even open for… Keep Reading

Does anyone use a program to write their blog posts offline? I was reading about LiveWriter, but apparently there are some problems with the photo functions being blurry. I’d love any recommendations or reviews anyone has-freeware is of course preferred! Also, I’m just a bit above the age of folks who are big on MySpace,… Keep Reading

oops-edited to add WFMW link! We don’t buy many movies here at the Frugal Upstate household-we tend to borrow them from the library, or to rent them via our Netflix subscription. It seems wasteful to buy something that will probably only get watched a single time. (Although Yankee Bill has watched Caddy Shack, all the… Keep Reading

Welcome to the Festival! For those of you new to my blog, usually on Tuesdays I run a Festival roundup where I post a few of the entries that catch my eye that week, along with a description and a link back to whoever is hosting. This week as the host I get to do… Keep Reading

Due to an unfortunate deletion accident (darn that laptop touchpad and the new auto save feature in blogger-it autosaved right after the accidental deletion), I am frantically recreating the festival. Please look back here around 10 to 10:30 EST (I’ve got to run Buddy to Nursery School as well) Thank you all for your patience!

I’d like to start a new “Readers Questions” feature. So don’t be shy, if there is anything you have always wanted to ask me-now is the time! Just pop over to the “email me” link on the sidebar and send me your questions.

The Festival of Frugality is held over at My Two Dollars this week. Next week I’ll be hosting-whoohooo! Back to this week though, there are whopping 37 entries. David started out with his 5 editor’s choice picks, and then lists the rest of the entries in the order they were recieved. Since I always forget… Keep Reading

I’m asking for even more help here today. I’ve been thinking for several months that I’d like to start a second blog where I can talk about things other than frugality. Since this blog is specifically about frugality I really try to keep it pretty tightly to that topic. However I have found that I… Keep Reading

Frugal Upstate,Hi, I have an elderly friend who remembers something called a “frugal tool” It was on a long handle and had a round rubber bottom for getting the last bit of jelly or mayo out of the jar. I thought I’d check online to see if anything came up and you did. You haven’t… Keep Reading