I changed my template! After months of hemming and hawing, it actually was fairly painless. Of course, I have lots of moving and editing and improving to do. I need to update the colors, and fix the text (the light orange that showed up so nicely on the dark green looks lousy on white. …. Keep Reading

For the first week of the “Improve your Blog” month I am going to concentrate on my template. To that end I want to provide you with a selection of FREE templates that I have found. As a disclaimer-I have not used any of these templates, and have no idea how easy they are, if… Keep Reading

Welcome to my self proclaimed “Improve Your Blog Month”! If you want to improve along with us, just fill out the Mr. Linky at the bottom of the post and take some “Before” screenshots of your blog for comparison purposes. Don’t worry if you don’t start out right at the beginning of April-you can join… Keep Reading

Every since we got the “cable/phone/modem” bundle at the house, I barely use my cell phone anymore. I guess I’m just of the wrong generation. I don’t do the text message thing, and since I can call as much as I want long distance from the home phone, well, I do! The cell phone now… Keep Reading

I forgot to update the lunchbox report in the sidebar this morning. My only excuse is that I posted “today’s” article last night, and I had MOPs this morning. I didn’t even get online until now!

Why? Because I can! And because I need a good swift kick in the posterior to get my blog into shape 🙂 Honestly, I am hoping that we can all encourage each other to try some new skills, commiserate when it goes poorly, share tips and resources when it goes well, and generally learn a… Keep Reading

The Festival of Frugality is over at Debt Hater a new blog to me (by the way, LOVE her photo, for some reason this strikes me as a woman with joie de vivre and style!) There are 19 articles this week, including my article on Packing a Lunch. Here are a few articles that caught… Keep Reading

By Parents Magazine! How cool is that? I was contacted by a reporter yesterday who is doing an article on frugal moms. As she put it, people who are doing more than just clipping coupons. I’ll let you all know when it is supposed to come out-you can make sure to check it out of… Keep Reading

Stephanie over at “Stop the Ride” pointed me at this one, and it totally ties in with my idea to have April be “Improve your Blog” contest month. Splat Designs is running a contest. All you have to do is enter! Up for grabs on 1 April is a free complete web template redesign. Free… Keep Reading

I just found this widget through a reader’s blog “All That Blog“. It’s a cool gizmo where you can click off the states or countries that you have visited and it makes up a map for you! Although it really doesn’t have much to do with frugality (other than it is actually free) I could… Keep Reading