Frugal Babe

I rode my bike around town today, running errands. I stopped at the post office, and noticed an H2 sitting in the parking lot, with the engine running and one person in the passenger seat. Obviously the driver had gone into the post office and the passenger wanted AC. When I came [...]

We spent today painting our house.  It’s starting to really come together and look nice.  We’re doing the same colors that were already there, but the new paint looks all shiny and fresh.  The sides that are finished look fantastic - the trim really makes it look great.  We should be able to finish it [...]

We’re in the middle of painting our house, but thanks to my family we’re a lot closer to the end of the project than we were two days ago. We’re painting because the HOA told us we had to - as they did with about half the neighborhood, from the looks of the semi-finished [...]

I just spent the last hour playing with my new sewing machine.  I made a new diaper, using yellow fleece that I bought at Hobby Lobby for the liner, layers of old towel for the soaker inside, and super cute rubber ducky pajamas that I found at a thrift store as the outer layer.  The [...]

Over the last few weeks, as I wrote about making cloth diapers and reusable nursing pads, I’ve had lots of people comment that I might also want to make/buy reusable menstrual pads.  Hmmm.  Not something I had ever considered before, but hey - we can all change.  I change and wash cloth diapers all day [...]

I was cruising around my blogroll and found this post from Dawn at Frugal For Life.  Which led me to this post at Casaubon’s Book.  I think this is a great list.  I don’t claim to be an expert on world energy use, or timeframes for using up what we’ve got.  But it doesn’t take [...]

We bought a solar oven that we found on Craigslist a few days ago. So far we’ve made our breakfast oatmeal, my husband has boiled water for his coffee, we made yesterday’s lunch (brown rice, with eggs and frozen veggies mixed in at the end), and today I baked biscuits and reheated some lasagna [...]

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at The Dividend Guy. Mrs. Accountability has a great post about a washing machine that cost three times as much as my car. Sort of puts into perspective what a bad deal long-term appliance rental is! And the DebtFree Playbook Blog has a positive spin [...]

The Festival of Frugality is up at Broke Grad Student. I enjoyed the post at Free From Broke about running. I’ve been running since I was about 16 - nearly half my life. I love how simple it is. I do have somewhat expensive shoes that I buy at a store [...]

The Carnival of All Things Eco is up at Focus Organic.  I really enjoyed the post from Elizabeth about hemp production in the US.  I’m a huge fan of hemp - it’s sustainable, durable, and can be used for a multitude of purposes (for many of which we currently use petroleum products).  We have an [...]