It’s summer. It’s hot. No-one wants to slave over a hot stove minding a pot of hot noodles.Well, you don’t have to using this simple tip. Fill the pot with cold water just as you normally do. Then, before you put the pot on the burner dump your raw noodles in. Thats right, put them… Keep Reading

Since Stephanie asked, this is a blueberry rake. It only works on the lowbush, wild type blueberries, not on the highbush. And it costs about $40 for a cheaper, smaller one. But since it took me 3 hours to pick 4 cups, and this thing can pick that much in probably 10 minutes or so… Keep Reading

Took the kids up to my friends land again the other day and we just picked and picked and picked wild blueberries. After about 3 hours (which did include a bit of running after Princess, Buddy and assorted other children) I had picked about 4 cups of the yummiest, sweetest blueberries. Do you have any… Keep Reading

Welcome to my review of the 32 Festival of Frugality for 2006! I just love having the opportunity each week to read all of the interesting articles that different folks have written on frugal topics. This week there are 24 articles to read, and Penny at “Money and Values” has done them in the form… Keep Reading

Has Jenn gone, oh where oh where can she be????? Sorry to sort of drop off the face of the blogosphere lately. This summer has been much more hectic then I had planned. Princess just went through a 2 week summer kindergarten orientation program, which necessitated getting both her and Buddy (cause I can’t leave… Keep Reading

Well, it’s almost midnight and I’m just getting around to posting my Festival of Frugality review. It was held over at Financial Reflections this week with 26 entries. There is lots of good stuff-I probably would have even more that I would especially recommend if I wasn’t so tired (actually the one on how to… Keep Reading

Just thought I’d ponder a few money and frugality questions related to the garden today. Whenever folks talk about saving money on food, gardening comes up as a great way to save money. And I’m sure if you live on a nice big plot of land with good soil, and all you have to do… Keep Reading

How does your garden grow? Quite well thank you! I thought today that I’d give you a good look at how my gardens are doing. Tomorrow (or possibly Sunday-depending on how busy I am!) I’ll be talking about how frugal all of this really is, or isn’t. . . . Here is the front flower… Keep Reading

Well it is works for me Wednesday over at Rocks in My Dryer (click the banner to head on over and read everyones excellent tips!) Here is mine. I know this isn’t very exciting, and it is probably so basic that 99% of you already use it. But hey, it might help that other 1%,… Keep Reading

This weeks Festival of Frugality is hosted over at Frugal For Life. She used the alphabet as her theme! How clever. I would never have thought of that. As always, lots of great posts. These are a few that really piqued my interest for one reason or another. How to live like a cheapass in… Keep Reading