5 Frugal Things I Did Today
When you live a frugal life and you’ve been doing it for a while, you don’t seem to notice all the frugal things you do anymore! If you start to get down about your budget, your bills, or the economy in general, try this exercise:

Grab a pen and paper. Write [...]

The price of fuel is hurting everyone: missed vacations and business trips for people who now can’t afford to fly, the airlines losing revenue and having to cut flights, the hotels and restaurants who don’t have vacationers to patronize their establishments, and most of all - the poor souls…

Niki from Free 2 Be Frugal tagged me to participate in this “get to know the writer” game. I normally don’t do MeMes, but Niki is so great that I can’t say no! Everyone reading this, please consider yourself tagged if you want to be!
 

 
4 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago:
1. I [...]

Kitchen Tip: Music Stand for a Cookbook Holder
Have you ever wished you had a stand in the kitchen to hold your cookbook upright, just where you need it? Putting your cookbooks on the counter gets them dirty and in the way of your food preparation. This tip comes from a wonderful invention of my husband. [...]

Why pay for things you can get for free? Using Homemaker Barbi’s tips, you may never have to purchase these things again! At the core of frugal living is learning to use our available resources wisely. We all know a smaller shopping list means smaller grocery and household expense bills. Many of the tips [...]

Lately we’ve been trying to reuse everything and cut the amount of trash bags we’re sending to the landfill! I realized that I throw away a lot of things if they’re small and not useful at that moment. Do you do the same?

We eat a lot of asparagus at our house, which comes bundled by [...]

Thanks to Be Thrifty Like Us for writing a great article called “Energy Wasters”. Their article was based on the US News & World Report: “Putting Your Home On An Energy Diet” by Mariann Lavelle.
The energy wasters were very surprising to me; top shocker was a digital photo frame. Could you believe it costs on [...]

In my never-ending quest to drive down our grocery costs, my husband and I delved into buying dry staples in bulk. Many staples (rice, beans, barley, flour, and other grains) can be purchased in large quantities for prices that are fractional compared to grocery store prices.
Use the Top 8 Frugal Cooking Ingredients to identify some [...]

My husband and I were interested in buying food staples in bulk to save money on our grocery bill. We jumped in enthusiastically, but not educated about bulk foods. Our first acquisition: a 50 pound bag of rice. Price: $15! Great deal! However, we worried about how to store the rice. So many questions came [...]

What’s Homemaker Barbi cookin’ this week? A lot of my ingredients overlap for meals; learn how to maximize your menu plan savings by using the Top 8 Frugal Cooking Ingredients!
Breakfast choices: Cold cereal, homemade porridge, oatmeal, cream of wheat
Lunches: (leftovers, brown bagged!)
Dinners:

Monday~ Shredded pork tacos
Tuesday~ Hungarian goulash
Wednesday~ Chicken Madness with side veggie:
My husband named this [...]