Frugal Babe

My husband had his knee surgery on Monday, and it went far better than we had hoped.  They didn’t have to do as much to his knee as we had thought they would, and it’s looking like the recovery process is going to be a lot faster and easier too.  The surgeon is considered one [...]

I just put another $800 into our HSA.  That’s $2000 so far this year - only $3800 to go until we max out the account for 2008.  We’re trying to really swing for the fences with our financial goals this year.  We made the HSA priority one, and I’m hoping that we can have it [...]

No Credit Needed has posted a great list of “best money saving tips ever” from a range of bloggers.  If you have a great tip that isn’t on the list, send it his way. 
Here are my favorites - the things we do that I think really save us the most money and allow us to [...]

I’ve been saving my vacation time at my library job ever since we started trying to get pregnant, knowing that I would need it for maternity leave (or that if I decide to quit when the baby is born, it will be a nice fat final paycheck).  I currently have about 155 hours saved up.
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All is takes is a quick glance around the internet to see that the financial outlook these days is not as rosy as it has been for most of this decade.  The doom and gloom crowd is predicting a full blown recession, while the more optimistic folks say that there will just be a bit [...]

Well Heeled is on a mission to not buy any clothes for six months. I like this idea, and I wish her well.  I’m having to consolidate my closets in preparation for the baby’s arrival.  I’ve been using the closet in my office (the room that will become the baby’s room in a few months) [...]

Our emergency fund at ING has $1300 in it.  This isn’t even close to three months worth of expenses, but it’s $1300 more than we had on January 1, 2007.  We had opened an ING account in January of 2006, but we had pilfered it a few times that year, and by the end of [...]

Posts I read today…
Punny Money has an article about a class action lawsuit against DeBeers.  My husband and I spent about $2k on an engagement ring five years ago.  According to the chart in the article, that would entitle us to about $640.  Hmmm.  I wonder if we’d still qualify now that we sold the ring?   
Jenn at [...]

We did our major grocery shopping trip for the month this weekend, and have a well-stocked pantry, fridge, and freezer now.  In addition to food, we spent $37 on two stainless steel water bottles, $25 on a fire extinguisher, and $20 on three new smoke detectors.  I had been wanting to get away from plastic [...]

I’ve been reading raw food cookbooks for about the last two years, and I try to make sure that half the food we eat each day is raw.  We all know that we’re supposed to be eating leafy dark greens, and I’ve tried hard (especially since I’ve been pregnant) to make sure we eat at [...]