I’m making stone soup (also known elegantly as garbage soup) for dinner tonight, along with refridgerator bread rolls. Now what on earth is stone soup, besides a childrens story? It is one of those good ideas that is so simple, so common sense, that when you hear it you just slap yourself on the forehead… Keep Reading

We dont’ get the paper at our house. When DH and I were first married we subscribed to the newspaper (at that time in Huntsville AL!) and we never seemed to have time to read it. They just got stacked up in a pile that seemed to lurk their with an accusatory attitude. So finally… Keep Reading

The Great American Food Stores in the Binghamton/Norwich NY area have boneless skinless chicken breasts in the 3lb or larger pkgs for $1.69 a LB!!! Usually the sale price around here (which comes up about once every month to month and a half) at all the major grocery chains runs about $1.89. So this is… Keep Reading

Well, got to head out to church, so here is a quick tip for today. Use something you would normally throw away! Keep a ziplock baggie in your fridge and put your butter/margarine stick wrappers in there. Next time you have to grease a pan or casserole dish, rub the wrappers on the inside instead… Keep Reading

Friday night is pizza night at our house-mostly because I love pizza and it is a great excuse to eat it once a week! Now this could be quite an expensive proposition if you ordered out, but being the frugalite I am, I make my own pizza. Being somewhat lazy, I of course do it… Keep Reading

It struck me today while I was out shopping, sometimes the most frugal things you do are the things you DON’T do. I was waiting for the Thrifty Shopper thrifts store on upper front street to open at 10am-it was only 9, so I had a bit. I drove over to KMart to look around… Keep Reading

Well, I had to cook up the last of a large purchase of ground beef last night. I went out at the end of last week and bought 3 family packs (4lbs ea) of 85% ground beef when the Great American grocery store in town had it on sale for $1.69 lb. I wanted to… Keep Reading

I love my rice bags. For those of you not familiar with them, a rice bag is just some sort of natural cloth bag that is filled with uncooked regular (not minute) rice. You can put it in the microwave for about 3 minutes (which is why it has to be natural cloth-melted polyester all… Keep Reading

Well, I was going to write about rice bags this morning, because I woke up with a stiff neck (I’ve got a cold!), but the kiddos followed me downstairs and of course as soon as I got on the computer they needed my undivided attention. (How dare mama pay attention to something other than us!)… Keep Reading

Well, yesterday at my daughter’s request I made waffles for breakfast. I just use the regular recipe out of good old Betty Crocker (with the addition of a few spoons of sugar and some vanilla extract), and an ancient waffle iron I bought at the thrift store 4 years ago for a dollar. (It looks… Keep Reading