Frugal Babe

Turns out Frugal Babe has a lot in common with Zach from Pennywise and Pound Foolish.  We’ve both recently had babies, and we’re both committed to a frugal and ecologically sound lifestyle.  I wrote a guest post for Zach today, and he’s written one for me as well.  I’m not sure I deserve as much [...]

For the last four years, my husband and I have had memberships at our local rec center.  I get mine for free as a perk of working for the city, and we pay $350/year for my husband.  We love our gym, and the price can’t be beat (we checked out some other gyms before I [...]

Paid Twice started the idea of snowflaking, and it’s turned into a blizzard all across the pf blogosphere.  Since we’ve decided to buckle down and pay off our HELOC, we’ll be putting every little bit of money we can save into our HELOC.  We use Vonage for our phone service, and have been paying $31/month [...]

I’m tired of having the balance in our HELOC remain pretty much unchanged.  We’ve had our house for five and a half years.  When we bought it, we only had 5% for a down payment, so in order to avoid PMI, we got a first mortgage - fixed at 6% interest for 30 years - [...]

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at Piggy Bank Blues.  Check out the post from Amateur Asset Allocator about the ideal 401k.  Sounds good to me.  And I enjoyed Paid Twice’s post about how life is meant to be lived.  Good point for frugal folk to keep in mind.  Out of Debt Again has [...]

The post I wrote about our organic crib mattress was included today in the All Things Eco Carnival.  This blog began as a finance/frugality blog, but I’ve noticed that I tend to write quite a bit about eco-friendly living and ways that we incorporate frugal and green practices into our life.  So I wanted to [...]

The 154th Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Canadian Dream: Free At 45.  (for some reason, this blog title makes me think of Dream Academy’s “Life In A Northern Town” which puts me in a good mood).
I love the post from Budgets Are Sexy about the stages of “no spending” stints.  I really like [...]

Plonkee started the “best financial move you made in college” meme last month and I decided to tag myself.  I’m very glad that I went to college.  All of my best friends (except my husband) are people I met in college.  Without my degree I would not have been accepted into the Peace Corps, nor [...]

Yesterday we ordered an organic crib mattress for our baby.  We had been looking at various options for a couple weeks now, and had seen this one for closer to $300 on several websites, so when I found it for $229 with free shipping, we went ahead and ordered one.  We both feel really good [...]

JD at Get Rich Slowly has posted an article about what his life and finances were like ten years ago, and has invited other bloggers to share their stories as well.  I think it’s interesting to look back over where we’ve been and to think about where we’re headed, so here goes…
Ten years ago, I [...]