Frugal Babe

Ok, so much for my decision to not run any more races for a while.  I have no idea what went wrong on Monday, but I had my worst-ever 10k finish.  They haven’t posted exact times yet, but my watch was showing about 48 minutes.  Ouch.  That’s almost 4 minutes slower than I should have [...]

I’m spending the weekend chilling out on the couch, resting before my 10k race on Monday.  It’s a big deal race around here (about 43,000 people ran last year), and a big deal for me aswell.  My goal is to go under 44 minutes, but I’ll be ok with anything under 45 minutes.  Last year [...]

The end is very much in sight for us with credit card debt.  We’ve come a long way.  Three years ago, we had nearly $40k in business start-up debt, about half of it on credit cards (the rest was loans at about 7 - 10% interest).  We now owe $1911 to Discover Card, but with almost no [...]

My trusty Honda Civic has 211,000 miles on it, and I decided it was time she got a tune up.  My dad loves to work on cars, and I was asking him questions about it when he offered to help me with the project.  Sweet!  Last weekend, I went to my parents’ house (they live [...]

Today a lady came into the library wearing a huge diamond on her finger.  The engagement/wedding band set took up all the room from her palm to her first knuckle - I am not kidding.  The wedding band was covered with diamonds, and the rock on the engagement ring was probably 4 or 5 cts.  [...]

The Festival of Frugality is up at Millionster.  Tons of great reading.  I loved the post about making flower pots out of rotted tree stumps, and as a self-employed person, I appreciated all the detail in the post about how to avoid an IRS audit.  As always, it’s nice to be reminded that so many [...]

My husband and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary on Saturday.  I had to work at the library until 5, so he spent the day getting our vegetable garden planted - best gift ever!  Pretty much everything is done in our yard now, all we have to do is keep it all growing.  When we [...]

Yesterday I came home from the library to find my husband lying on the living room floor with his leg up on the ottoman and an icepack on his knee.  He had been unicycling in a rocky drainage area near our house (a favorite pastime for him), when he fell just the wrong way and [...]

Wow! I don’t think that Madame X slept at all this weekend.  She has put together a huge carnival of personal finance (100 entries) for our entertainment and education.
I liked the post about what the war in Iraq is costing each of us.  Makes me even more pissed off about the whole thing.  Of course, [...]

I haven’t calculated our net worth for a few months, but I knew it was going in the right direction. Selling my ring and the gift from my parents helped a lot over the last couple months. Our net worth right now is $77,386. That’s about a $6500 increase since January, but [...]