Frugal Babe

Last week a friend at the library gave me $50 worth of gift certificates for our local thrift store.  She and her husband got them because they donated an old car, but she doesn’t shop there and she knows I do.  They had no strings attached - it was like $50 in cash to spend [...]

My husband’s parents called today to see if we’d like any of the baby stuff that his sister has leftover from her two kids.  My inlaws are staying at her house right now, and they offered to pack everything up and ship it.  There’s a Baby Bjorn, a monitor, and several other things, including the [...]

Wow, we’ve had a crazy busy week.  One of my best friends is arriving at our house this afternoon with her two kids (ages 2 and 2 months) to stay until Thursday while her husband is out of town.  I’m excited to see her, but I haven’t been to the grocery store yet, I have [...]

We’re going to my husband’s cousin’s wedding this weekend.  We got invited earlier this fall, and knew we would attend, but my husband was not asked to be in this wedding.  We were both glad - it’s a lot less expensive to wear your own clothes than to rent a tux, and my husband would rather [...]

I imagine this lady has got to be a ton of fun to hang out with.  And I can’t imagine her marriage lasting more than 5 years.  What sort of person thinks it’s necessary to spend $27,000 on flowers for a wedding?   Obviously I don’t know anything about these people other than what was mentioned in [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I need to have backups of our important financial documents, and keep them in a safe.  This week, a new Staples opened near our house, and they were running an opening special that would give $30 off a $70 purchase.  So I went over there on Monday to get a safe.  [...]

Last week, our midwife told us about a movie that was going to be shown on the weekend, called “The Business of Being Born.”  It was made by Ricki Lake following the births of her two children - one in hospital with all the standard hospital rules and regulations, and the second at home with [...]

A couple people commented on my last post asking for more details about our Flavorwave.  So here’s the story.  Three years ago, my husband saw an infomercial on tv for the Flavorwave.  He was very impressed, but I was skeptical.  I assumed that it wouldn’t be as great as they made it look, and told [...]

We had our first prenatal appointment yesterday with our midwife.  We mainly just talked about our health history, lifestyle habits, etc, and she weighed me and took my blood pressure, and we both had to have blood drawn at a nearby lab.  She said that when we come back in three weeks we’ll be able [...]

It’s getting cold around here, so we harvested most of our garden today, leaving only a few tomato plants that we’ll cover at night for another week or so in hopes of getting more ripe tomatoes.  I had basil, oregano, and parsley growing this year, and I pulled up what was left of the plants [...]