Frugal Babe

J and I love to travel.  We’ve been to some great places, and have lots of places that we’ve love to go in the future.  We’re loving our time in Hawaii right now.  We’ve only been shopping for about 15 minutes during the five days we’ve been here, and it was to buy a couple [...]

We’re in Hawaii!  OK, so we got really lucky.  J’s sister and her family live in Hawaii, and we got airline vouchers when we flew to visit his other sister last spring and got bumped from our flight.  So we got here almost for free, and have a place to stay.  We’re having a great [...]

I just read a great post on Get Rich Slowly where J.D. talks about a crappy job experience he had selling bad insurance to people who didn’t really need it.  J and I met when we both worked for a large company, doing a job that we hated, basically just for the paycheck.  A year [...]

I have always shopped at garage sales and thrift stores.  When I was very young, we lived in rural areas, and garage sales were our Saturday morning activity.  My mother is the original FrugalBabe.  She knows pretty much every possible way to stretch a dollar, and she taught her four children well.  To this day, [...]

Earlier this week, I met up with a girlfriend for lunch.  We get together for lunch every few weeks, and it’s always fun to catch up with her.  She has always been more money-savvy than most people I know, and has done very well for herself.  In college, she bought a trailer to live in, while [...]

It snowed yesterday!  I always like the first snow of the season.  By March, I’m not as impressed with it, but for now, the winter wonderland is nice.  Time to dig the winter coat out of the closet.  My brother found that coat for me at a thrift store about five years ago.   It’s a [...]

A few years ago, J and I decided it was time to expand our family.  We went to the local animal shelter “just to look.”  Yeah right.  An hour later, we were signing the papers to adopt our new puppy.  She was about 10 weeks old, an adorable mutt with little brown eyebrows that wiggle when she [...]

There is enough reading to keep you busy for a while over at the Festival of Frugality hosted by FreeMoneyFinance.  You can easily breeze through all 20 articles by just reading a short description of each one and then choosing which ones you want to visit.
Some of my favorites were How to spend virtually nothing [...]

In the fall of 2004, we found out that J needed a replacement for the bridge that makes up his front teeth.  He’s had a bridge since a mountain biking accident in college, and after 10 years, part of it was giving out.  He’s a trooper, and tried to make the old one last as [...]

My New Choice has put together a great selection of articles on the Carnival of Debt Reduction.  You’ll find some new ideas there, and be reassured that you’re heading in the right direction as you get yourself out of debt.