Frugal Babe

I got my final paycheck from the library yesterday.  It was a good one, because I had more than 200 hours of vacation time saved up, and they cashed that out on my last check.  After taxes I ended up with over $2000, which is a good windfall.  Over the last year, I didn’t take [...]

We’ve added a new financial goal to our list.  We want to install solar panels.  We’ve been talking about it for years, but the price made the possibility unrealistic (at least $12,000 to put in enough panels to power our house, and even that would require that we cut back further on our electricity use).  [...]

Over the last few weeks, as I wrote about making cloth diapers and reusable nursing pads, I’ve had lots of people comment that I might also want to make/buy reusable menstrual pads.  Hmmm.  Not something I had ever considered before, but hey - we can all change.  I change and wash cloth diapers all day [...]

Just came across a blog that I already love - Barton Family Values.  Thanks to the guest post on Lynnae’s blog, I have found a new blog to read!  Michelle has a beautiful baby girl who is just a few weeks older than our little boy, so I know we have a lot in common [...]

I saw an ad today for the new iPhone, coming out next month.  The G3 is billed as being “twice as fast, half the price”  I assume they’re comparing it with the original iphone - already outdated after only a year.  This is why I don’t buy the latest and greatest of pretty much anything.  [...]

In continuing my quest to find things that are both frugal and ecologically sound, I wanted to highlight a few posts from this week’s edition of the carnival of all things eco - posted at Focus Organic.
I love this post from Nature Mom’s Blog about helping kids see past commercialism.  Obviously it’s easier on your [...]

As promised, here’s a picture of our little boy in his Fat Tire diaper that my mom made for him… Makes you want to turn all of your cool t-shirts into diapers, doesn’t it?

Paid Twice started the idea of snowflaking, and it’s turned into a blizzard all across the pf blogosphere.  Since we’ve decided to buckle down and pay off our HELOC, we’ll be putting every little bit of money we can save into our HELOC.  We use Vonage for our phone service, and have been paying $31/month [...]

I’m tired of having the balance in our HELOC remain pretty much unchanged.  We’ve had our house for five and a half years.  When we bought it, we only had 5% for a down payment, so in order to avoid PMI, we got a first mortgage - fixed at 6% interest for 30 years - [...]

JD at Get Rich Slowly has posted an article about what his life and finances were like ten years ago, and has invited other bloggers to share their stories as well.  I think it’s interesting to look back over where we’ve been and to think about where we’re headed, so here goes…
Ten years ago, I [...]