Here’s a quick and easy tip: Have sneakers that are comfortable and fit, but don’t look so hot anymore? I’m a big proponent of “use what you have”-so don’t throw those sneakers out and buy a new pair. Instead clean them up quickly and easily using a “Magic Eraser” style sponge. Here is a before… Keep Reading
Best Of: The rest of the Baby Stuff
And here is the last installment of the “Best of: Baby Stuff”. ********************************* In answer to a readers question, lately I’ve talked about breastfeeding/bottlefeeding, and also about feeding a toddler, but I promised to talk about “Everything Else”. So here we go! Opinions highly vary on what is “necessary” gear when you have a baby…. Keep Reading
Best Of-Frugal Feeding of Babies/Toddlers
Here is part two of the best of post from yesterday on frugality and babies.*********************************A few days ago I posted a reader’s question from Allymonami. In my first post I addressed issues having to do with breastfeeding babies. Today I will tackle how to feed an older baby. When you head out to a grocery… Keep Reading
Best Of-Frugal Baby Supplies
This best of is in honor of my sister, who is due in March. Love you Bick.******************************Dear Frugal Upstate, Well, I saw your web-site and was hoping you could offer up a few ideas for being frugal when bringing home a new baby. I love the tightwad gazettes and have gleaned info from all of… Keep Reading
Redbox Video Rentals-Frugal and Convenient
Photo by Saaby via Flickr.com Redbox*-how do I love you? Let me count the ways. $1 per night DVD rentals. On all of the DVDs. Free video rentals on Mondays with promotion codes (which Amy of the Motherload kindly publishes each week on Monday afternoon). New releases not yet available in our local library system…. Keep Reading
Make Some Romp Stompers!
Do you know what Romp Stompers are? They are basically tin can stilts. I vaguely remember having some in the classroom in grade school (Kindergarten?) but had totally forgotten about them until Amy mentioned them a while back on the Motherload. Here they are. Romp Stompers. These things are easy and practically free to make,… Keep Reading
Summer Book Clubs
This is not my library-I got the pic from Wikipedia Commons, taken by Andrew Carnegie under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. I love the library, and we use the library frequently as any good frugalite family would. I was in last night and saw that they had the materials for the summer reading… Keep Reading
Dying Ballet Shoes
Princess has been taking dance lessons this year. Although our prices are much more reasonable here than in a metro area (gasp), it still has not been an inexpensive process. There are the monthly lesson costs, the class gear (taps, ballet shoes, leotards etc), costumes and recital gear. Don’t get me started on the fact… Keep Reading
What’s in a Name
It’s funny. Buddy won’t touch anything that he thinks is a Pea with a 10 foot pole, but he happily slurps down “Shrek Swamp Slime Soup”. Photo by Donut via Flickr.com Yum. I can’t exactly give you a recipe for the soup, as I just chunk stuff in the pot without measuring (split peas, broth,… Keep Reading
Snow Day Fun-Bread Dough Sculpting
More slushy, icky weather that caused the local school districts to close down at eleven today. Just what I needed after the kids had a single day back at school after winter break. Sigh. We had pegged out the fun meter over break, so I needed to think of something fun to do that would… Keep Reading
