Frugal Babe

Baby Cheapskate (a site I just found and am really enjoying) is having a diaper giveaway contest! She’s going to give 12 BumGenius 3.0 One Size cloth diapers to a lucky reader. Check out her post about the contest and see if you can win… the diapers are worth $200, so it’s a [...]

Cap at Stop Buying Crap has a great post from a couple weeks ago that I just found today. Check out five things I’ll never buy for my future kids. He’s got some good humor sprinkled in, but I have to agree with the serious points he makes - kids don’t need any [...]

Before our son was born, my mother and I made about two dozen diapers for him. We followed a pattern we found online, and made the medium size diapers. We thought they would fit him for about 4 - 6 months. When he was born, he was just under 7 lbs. [...]

Our baby is nearly ten weeks old already.  Not sure where all that time went, but we’re having a blast getting to know him, and judging from his more frequent smiles and laughs, he seems to be enjoying it as well.  One thing he’s doing is growing.  Very quickly.  He was 6 lb, 15 oz [...]

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 [...]

My husband came across this idea today on a dad forum he visited - we thought it was fantastic and I wanted to pass it on.  We set up a gmail account for our son, and I just sent him an email.  I told him how much he weighs today (12 pounds!) and that he’s [...]

Before our baby was born, I made a commitment to cloth diapers.  I couldn’t bear the thought of several thousand disposable diapers sitting around in landfills for thousands of years; I didn’t want to spend $15/week on diapers; and I hated the thought of whatever chemicals are in ’sposies that make them so absorbent (how [...]

I’m feeling very productive today.  I’ve gotten lots of work done, and I just opened a 529 plan for our son.  I set it up with a $100 deposit, and a recurring $100 monthly deposit starting in July.  I also set up a UPromise account - we’ll see how that goes… I don’t think that [...]

We had a very productive weekend. On Saturday we started painting our house. We decided to paint it the same color it already was, which is making the whole process easier. We bought a five gallon bucket of paint ($106) and a couple paint brushes, and we had caulk left over from [...]

Last week we got a box of baby stuff from a friend who lives in another state.  She loves to shop, and had bought us several baby boy things from Target.  Mostly clothes, which we have oodles of already.  We’ve gotten more hand-me-downs than our baby will ever need.  He’s going to outgrow some of [...]