Frugal Babe

We didn’t get our floors finished this weekend, but we did make a lot more progress on our house.  We’ve finished the hallway, which involved lots of funky angles and doorways.  Last night we finished putting the baseboard molding down in the guest room/office, so it is officially complete.  We had been using that room for [...]

I found a nursing shirt at my favorite thrift store last week, and for $2.50, I decided it was worth the price.  It’s a cute black top with pink trim - I wouldn’t have bought it unless I liked the shirt, and the fact that it’s designed to make breast feeding easier was a bonus.  [...]

When we bought our house five years ago, we assumed it would be a starter house, and that we’d need a bigger home when we were ready to add to our family.  We browsed real estate fliers from time to time and wandered through the neighborhoods with bigger houses, but never seriously considered moving, and I’m [...]

This month we finished paying off the dermatologist and the computer we bought last summer.  Our corporation paid for the computer, so technically it wasn’t our debt, but since we own the corporation, any money it spends is money we don’t get paid.  So now that the computer is paid for, our paychecks will be [...]

We continued our remodeling projects this weekend.  We’ve finished two of the bedroom floors - just the hallway and our bedroom left, although the hallway will take quite a while since it has so many doorways and angles to go around.  The flooring process is much faster in a big square room - but soon [...]

I just finished our taxes.  It’s the culmination of probably 40 hours of work over the last several weeks, and it feels pretty darn good.  I spent $125 to get one hour of consultation from our accountant, but other than that I did it all on my own.  I finished the state and federal corporate [...]

I met with the HR rep for my library job this week, to go over maternity leave details.  She gave me all the forms to fill out and explained how the leave works with FMLA, short-term disability, and vacation time.  I was very honest with her and told her that I’m not at all sure [...]

My husband and I started working on our upstairs floors yesterday.  My parents stopped by and helped us tear out the existing carpet in the baby’s room, which helped a ton, since the carpet was pretty heavy and we’d have had a tough time getting it out by ourselves.  After they left, we removed the [...]

We incorporated our business nearly two years ago, although we didn’t start having insurance companies pay commissions to our corporate tax id number until January of 2007.  So right now I’m working on our first real corporate tax return.  Not the most fun I’ve ever had…  Yesterday I met with our accountant for an hour, [...]

We just about finished our kitchen this past weekend.  It’s very exciting to see it all come together and have it look just like we planned.  We still have some trim/paint/touching up to do, but we should be finished this week.  Then we need to get cracking on replacing the carpet in our upstairs.  We’re [...]