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Our New Car

May 7, 2012

We bought a new – to us – car.  Actually, we bought it a year ago, but we now have the title in hand, so it’s truly ours now.  If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I was a fan of my Honda Civic.  But at 20 years old and with [...]

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Kitchen Success!

February 3, 2012

Yesterday I cooked one of the soups that I had “crockpot ready” in the freezer.  It turned out fantastic!  It’s one of our favorite soups (the French lentil soup in the bottom left corner of this page), and none of us could tell the difference between the one I make fresh and the one I [...]

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Changing Our Mortgage Payoff Strategy

December 12, 2011

Ever since we bought our first house in 2003, we’ve always paid extra on our mortgage.  Even in the early days of being self employed when we had barely any money, we always tried to put at least a little extra money towards the mortgage principal each month – even if it was only ten [...]

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Homemade (and secondhand) Christmas

November 23, 2011

Several of our son’s friends have play kitchens, and for about the last year those have been the toys our little guy enjoys the most when we play at other kids’ houses.  In our own house, he uses all of my pots and pans and utensils and then pretends that his blocks are muffins, pancakes, [...]

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The Minimalist Mom’s Guide To Baby’s First Year

November 5, 2011

For quite a while now, I’ve enjoyed The Minimalist Mom’s blog posts.  Her straightforward approach to keeping life simple and raising her son really resonates with me, and I often find myself nodding my head in agreement when I read her blog posts.  No birthday presents for a one- or two-year old?  Same here!  The [...]

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Frugal Babe On Facebook

November 1, 2011

I’ve been blogging for five years now, but for some reason I’ve always procrastinated on the idea of setting up a Facebook page for Frugal Babe.  No more!  Frugal Babe now has a Facebook page, and I’m excited to share stuff with you on there.  I’m looking forward to getting to know my readers better [...]

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Nearly Finished Preserving The Harvest

October 19, 2011

We had our first real freeze last night, so I have spent the last few days harvesting the remaining crops from our garden and preserving everything.  I thought I was almost finished on Saturday, but then on Sunday a friend told me about a field just down the road from our house where the huge [...]

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How We Established Our Own Business

August 22, 2011

In my post asking what you’d like to see me write about, two readers asked me to address the specifics of how my husband and I set up our home-based business, and I’ve also had numerous emails about this subject over the years.  So I’m going to lay out the basics of what we did, [...]

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Buns, Fries And Your Best Bean Burgers

August 16, 2011

Over the weekend, we went to an awesome vegetarian restaurant that got two thumbs up from my omnivore husband and son.  They shared a bean burger that they both loved, so I’m on a mission to recreate it at home.  The bun was obviously freshly-made at the restaurant, so yesterday I decided to try my [...]

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Making Zucchini Exciting

August 3, 2011

Our zucchini patch is doing what zucchini patches do… we have lots of zucchini.  And our summer squash patch is producing even more.  I’ve been offering squash to friends lately, and coming up with all sorts of ways to use squash in our meals.  We also have lots of wonderful cucumbers this year, which I’m [...]

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