Frugal Babe

The baby is asleep and I should be catching up on work right now, but instead I just took a detour over to Frugal Dad’s website, and came across this article about a Rolex versus a Timex.  Reading the article and the comments is a fascinating look into the viewpoints of a wide variety of [...]

The Carnival of All Things Eco is up at Focus Organic.
Not the Jet Set has a review of Home Depot’s FreshAire brand no-VOC paint.  I just noticed this paint last time I was at Home Depot - I don’t think it was there in early 2007 when I painted the interior of our house.  I [...]

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 [...]

I’ve always struggled with tossing stuff and getting rid of things.  If I spent money on it, I somehow feel like I have to keep it, even if I’m not using it anymore.  I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but it’s something I’ve been working on, and lately I’ve been making a lot of [...]

It’s primary season.  After three weeks of letting our mail-in ballots sit on the kitchen counter, my husband and opened them up last night and sat down to figure out who gets our votes.  Most of the spots only had one person on the ballot, so it wasn’t that tough.  But the US Congress seat [...]

It’a Thrift Green Thursday time at Green Baby Guide.  They want to know what we’ve done to be thrifty and green, and I figure that fits my life just about perfectly.  So what have we done?  It’s been an evolving process for us over the years.  I was raised to be very thrifty, and pretty [...]

We opened another ING account today.  We have had our emergency fund there for the last two years, and last month we started a fund to save for solar panels.  Now we’ve decided that we should start saving for a car.  We have no intention of buying a car any time soon, but our cars [...]

Last year we sold my engagement ring and put the money into our HSA and my Roth IRA. Since I still liked the look of diamonds, but not the price or the ethical issues, we bought a new ring from Diamond Nexus Labs. It cost $231, and looks just as good a year [...]

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 [...]

I’ve made it very clear throughout my blog that I’m a fan of credit cards. My husband and I put all our purchases on one credit card, with the exception of Costco, where we use AmEx, since it’s the only credit card they take. We earn rewards on our cards, have a clear [...]