Frugal Babe

The Carnival of All Things Eco is up at Focus Organic. Check out these great shopping bags made out of old sweatshirts at Lu-n-Am. Love them! We have cloth bags and we’re getting much better about remembering to take them to the store. But ours are very boring compared with these!
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The Frugal Gump edition of the Festival of Frugality is up at Budgets Are Sexy (awesome movie = great theme!)
Here’s a sweet post about how acne is like credit card debt. Quite the visual images conjured up here, imagining people rubbing pizza on their faces… I am happily in the phase I section here [...]

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 [...]

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at Bible Money Matters.  Check out this story from Mrs. Accountability - it’ll make you shudder, I promise!  I also liked the post from Harvesting Dollars about kids working during high school.  I have to agree - By the time I was a senior in high school, I [...]

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 [...]

The Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Money and Values.  I loved the post from One Caveman’s Financial Journey about buying worms for the composter.  I remember a few years ago when my husband set up our compost bins, and we were just getting started with composting our scraps.  A few days later it [...]