This weeks Festival is hosted at Lazy Man and Money. He uses a baseball analogy as a way to organize the 24 posts included. They are broken into 5 subcategories: Babe Ruth (Best of)Ted Williams (Splendid ways to live on the cheap)Willie Mayes (great all-around)Mickey Mantle (best players ever when injuries slowed him down)Herb Washington… Keep Reading

Upset that is. . . . What do you all think? I was checking my sitemeter and found a hit from this neat site called “Tipnut”. She seems to have a great site full of tips. As far as I could tell, there was no advertising, so it wasn’t one of those aggregate sites that… Keep Reading

A few weeks ago I installed “Snap” previews, where that little window pops up when you roll over a link. I can’t remember who’s blog I saw it on, but I thought it was cool, and it was free. Then I added a poll over on the sidebar, and I’ve got a video embedded in… Keep Reading

Now go out and do something presidential, like veto something! Ha! As a mom, I probably veto 3 things before breakfast every morning. “No Buddy, you cannot have chocolate chips for Breakfast”, “No Princess, you cannot wear a skirt and tank top to school in 10 degree weather”, “No Buddy, you can’t sit on the… Keep Reading

OHHHH! I usually don’t post on Sunday, but this info from Wise Bread was too good not to share! The kiddos are out of school on Tuesday too, so I might just have to take them out for breakfast. . . . .Click on over and check it out: Free Pancakes from IHOP!

OK, so you guys won’t let me play in the Festival of Under 30 Finances (Gee, just cause I’m 34!). So I was excited when I saw that “Making Our Way” had started a new Carnival-The 30’s and 40’s Carnival of Personal Finances. I even got an article in! This is only their second Carnival,… Keep Reading

Is cancelled due to Snow! Approximately a foot already, and more to come by nightfall. She’s just bummed that her Valentines Day Party was supposed to be today, but that’s ok, they already rescheduled it for tomorrow, and they even rescheduled “Pizza Day” lunch from Thursday to Friday. What luck. So now, instead of Yankee… Keep Reading

Over at Hustler $$$ Blog (and no, there is nothing, uh, PG-13 about the site despite the name “Hustler” in the title). This week there are 31 entries, including yours truly. This weeks host, Rich, included a tantalizing quote from each article. Here are some of my favorites from the week: Living Almost Large (a… Keep Reading

Well, I was excited to discover today that Pat Veretto, the former guide over at Frugal Living at About.com, has started her own blog! Pat Veretto’s Frugal Living. For those of you that didn’t know, my first introduction to frugality was “The Tightwad Gazette” books. My second really induction was the 3 plus years I… Keep Reading

I still get tons of hits each day for my article on Easy Bake Oven recipes, so when my sister sent me a link to the article on CNN Money stating that the same oven that Princess had received for Christmas was recalled, I felt it was important to post the information. If by chance… Keep Reading