Frugal Babe

My husband is having knee surgery on Monday (the other knee this time), so we’re going to be away from home from tomorrow until Tuesday evening.  It will be the longest we’ve been gone since our son was born in May (I guess we’ve really been homebodies the last few months…)  My husband’s sister owns [...]

We live within a mile of two grocery stores, but the health food stores are a bit further away.  I always bike or walk to the grocery stores near our house, but we drive to the health food stores (we always try to include multiple errands in one trip to avoid extra driving).  There’s a [...]

We had another great weekend day, no spending, lots of productivity.  We finished painting the last little bit of our house.  Whew!  It was a small part of trim at the top of a second story gable, but it’s over a trellis and vine porch roof, so it’s pretty hard to get to.  We finished [...]

We just finished a wonderful, productive, almost-free Saturday.  My husband spent a good chunk of the day putting the finishing touches on the greenhouse (adding insulation around the edges of the doors, and chains to hold the doors open while we’re inside the greenhouse).  Right now, he’s in the crawl space doing some work on [...]

Our son is almost four months old.  He’s been in cloth diapers since he was three days old, and as I’ve mentioned before, it’s been much easier than I expected to use them.  One thing I had read about was how detergent can build up in diapers over time, creating a residue that makes them [...]

We have one last home improvement project on our short-term list right now. We’re going to replace the doors in our upstairs hallway. There are four doors, and they’re all original to the house. They’re made of some sort of dark brown plastic material, molded to look like wood. Back when [...]

Last night I was browsing the free section of Craigslist, just for fun.  I saw a duvet cover, and noticed that it was in our town.  When I clicked on it, I saw that it was in our neighborhood, about a 7 minute walk from our house.  It’s now in the washing machine, and will [...]

A reader commented on one of my posts about cloth diapers, wondering if cloth really are more economical than disposables. People choose one or the other for a variety of reasons - in our case we chose cloth because of the environmental impact, wanting to avoid chemicals next to our baby’s tush, and of [...]

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 [...]