First I want to thank the folks who posted on “Need Fundraising Ideas.” I always appreciate it when folks take the time to post on my blog and share their opinions and comments. I hope this doesn’t come across as dismissive-that is not the intent (this is where the fact that you can’t read body… Keep Reading

Oops, forgot it was Tuesday! I’ve got to head out for a shift at the food pantry (each church only helps once every 6 months, I don’t want to be late) so I’ll just post the link and do my roundup tomorrow. Festival of Frugality at the Simple Dollar.

Well, this is something that is probably a good information topic for a lot of folks. I recently (as in on Sunday) got elected to my church’s vestry. For those of you not Episcopalian, the vestry is the administrative ruling body of the church. It is also a word for a storage room in the… Keep Reading

Yes! January and February is time to start pouring over all your seed catalogs and start thinking of what you will be planting in the flower beds and out in the veggie garden this year. It’s weird, because usually I don’t get my seed catalogs until January, but this year they started showing up in… Keep Reading

OK, am I the last person in the world to know about this? Did you guys know you can watch full length episodes of current TV shows online at the network’s websites? I got this tip from the Frugal Duchess, Sharon, who has been talking about that new show “Ugly Betty“. Sometimes I hear about… Keep Reading

The other night Yankee Bill and I were sitting in the hot tub and discussing how few people we knew had actually started saving anything for their children to go to college. Yes-for those of you who haven’t heard it before, we do have a hot tub. To be fair, we bought it used-but we’ll… Keep Reading

This Blog was 1 year old on 7 January. Gee, and I didn’t even get myself a gift. Just for giggles, who is my longest reader? (family need not apply)

This weeks Festival of Frugality is Hosted over at FIRE Finance. He (She? Sorry, not sure of the gender of the author) wrote a very clever story that wove all of this weeks 26 entries in. It is well worth a wander over an a full read. Of course, for those of you who are… Keep Reading

OK, I owe this to Rebecca over at The Space Between My Peers (an awesome blog about the how to’s of fashion-not that weird runway stuff no one actually wears, but the mechanics of how to look good in real clothing. Love it! Totally on my daily reads. If I ever make it out to… Keep Reading

And I don’t mean the British comedy from the 1980’s (OK-the 1970’s, but it aired in the US on PBS in the 80’s when I was an impressionable tween-hmmm, the starting of my frugality perhaps?) Yankee Bill left yesterday for a guys weekend with his buddy Craig at the Barrett Jackson car auction in Scottsdale… Keep Reading