blog technicalities

A New Look And Some Great Links

March 9, 2012

My little blog got a facelift today, thanks to my awesome husband.  It was time for a change, and I love the clean new look.  Both the boys are in bed and my husband is down in his basement office working late tonight, so I’ve had some time to just browse around online.  Well, and [...]

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How To Start Blogging

November 2, 2011

It’s been more than five years since I created frugalbabe.com.  Over the years I’ve had lots of readers who have mentioned that they’d love to set up their own blog but are unsure of the best path to take.  I’m very fortunate to have a husband who loves web technology and has been my answer [...]

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Review Post Moved To New Page

November 19, 2008

I’ve had BlogHer ads on my site for quite a while now, but I forgot that one of the rules they have is that we can’t get freebies worth more than $40 for review on our sites.  When I got a giftcard to JC Penny from Box Tops for Education, it was for $50.  I [...]

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Blogging Income

April 2, 2008

When I started this blog, I was excited about getting to write about whatever frugal ideas I happened to be having, and also about the possibility of making some extra money blogging.  The writing part of it has been great from the start, but it seemed to take forever before the blog made any money [...]

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BlogHer Advertising

November 22, 2007

I finally got signed up with BlogHerAd Network, and got it going on my site.  I love that the very first ad that came up was for Habitat for Humanity.  I worked on a Habitat house in Tanzania during a school break while I was Peace Corps volunteer.  And my favorite thrift store is run [...]

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Frugal Babe Gets A Makeover

July 31, 2007

Today, I hosted the Festival of Frugality – the first time I’d hosted a blog carnival.  I got to read lots of posts, and then ended up sitting at my computer until 2am last night, putting everything together the way I wanted it.  For some reason (probably exhaustion-induced delerium) I didn’t publish the post when I [...]

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