Posted in FAQ, Saving, money, thrift on March 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I read several personal finance blogs, and on several of them, the word “cheap” has come up, usually in the comments. Commenter after commenter will carefully define the meaning of “cheap” vs. the meaning of “frugal,” in every case disparaging the former and praising the latter.
The latest case I came across was this post, where [...]
Posted in FAQ on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This week, Loving Green rated my blog E for Excellent! Thanks, LG.
She also posted this:
“Now according to the information I was given - the person who started it all said: ‘I love being a part of the blogging community and part of all the friendships that I’ve formed, so I wanted to give a blog [...]
Posted in Deals, Environment, FAQ, Green Living, Home, Saving, money on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been working hard on our eco baby steps around here. I got several gasps of alarm at the no-TP move, but that’s really a drop in the bucket (or toilet) in terms of waste. I realized this especially on Sunday afternoon, when I was madly re-organizing the basement.
I wound up throwing out two 13-gallon [...]
Posted in Eating, FAQ, Garden, Green Living, Home on June 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Our garden is going strong this year. We dug some new beds, went to Longmont for four big bins full of composted horse manure, added our own compost pile from last year in an effort to thin out our heavy clay soil, dug up reams of landscape cloth that was used to keep the weeds [...]
Posted in FAQ, Green Living, money on June 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Starting this blog has been an incredible motivator for me.
I have a tendency to obsess, to calculate, to love spreadsheets and data, although I’ve been told I’m more a creative type. A couple years ago, when I became intent on lowering our grocery bills, I dove in full-bore, subscribed to The Grocery Game for coupon [...]
Posted in FAQ on June 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are a lot of personal finance blogs out there. I know. I read a bunch of them.
This blog is about my journey to cheap. It’s about saving money, being frugal, without giving up the things that bring joy to my life: Friends. Good food. Travel. A glass of wine or a cocktail.
It’s about searching [...]
