Over at All Financial Matters! He had a “Question of the Day” yesterday Is there a difference between being FRUGAL and being CHEAP? You might want to go on over and weigh in with an opinion. Not being shy with an opinon, I of course already did. **********edited because I left the link out. duh.*****************

It will be posted later this morning at the Digerati Life. It isn’t up yet (ie as of 8am) but I’m sure they will get it up shortly. Don’t worry, I will post my Festival Roundup-I just have a full plate of various activities today and want to make sure I make the blog link… Keep Reading

Simply Thrifty has a post about how to get free jeans and t-shirts from Spirit with a rebate~~head on over to check it out! Rebates et al must be done by June, so hurry up!!!

Welcome to Week 2 of “Improve Your Blog Month”~ If you want to see what the big idea is either click on the coffee mug to the right, or go to the post with the initial idea: “I’m Declaring April Amateur Improve Your Blog Month”. Then hop on over to “Improve your Blog Month Starts… Keep Reading

I’m planning on eventually having both sidebars the same color, just trying these on for size. What do you all think of these types of colors? Too Christmasy? Likes? Dislikes? Other suggestions?

As anyone not simply using a feed reader can see, I am playing with my template colors again. (don’t forget to join my “Improve your Blog Month!”) (Many thanks to Se7en over at Free Blog Templates for emailing me back and telling me where to insert the correct code-what a guy. Now I need help… Keep Reading

I Caved! I totally caved. I am ashamed to admit that confounded by my own over scheduling, lack of planning and the damp weather, and after a disastrous attempt yesterday to speed the drying of a homemade pinata in the oven (yes, I was pretty sure that it would cause the balloon to explode-even with… Keep Reading

Yes, you are still at Frugal Upstate! I’m trying a similar 3 column style but this one is from “Free Blog Skins“. What I really want to do is to get a patterned background, change the color of the sidebar boxes and insert a nice picture in the header. I’ll see if I can get… Keep Reading

This year my Priest (I’m Episcopal. Don’t ask my opinion on the Bru-ha-ha please, I try to keep this blog non-political and non-controversial when possible) is encouraging everyone in our church to read the Bible. As one of the newest members of the Vestry I really feel that I should try to support that by… Keep Reading

OK, with changing my template and all, I really don’t have time to do a full roundup. You guys are going to have to be happy with a link pointing you to the festival this week. It is over at Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge. I wasn’t even on the ball enough to submit an article this… Keep Reading