Frugal Babe

It’s always fun to try to win something for free… check out Almost Frugal for a cool three-part giveaway opportunity. There are three options that you can win - biodegradable play corn for kids, a $20 gift certificate to Kllycat’s baby goods etsy store, or a Kiddopotamus pink portable placemat.  There are three ways [...]

I love this post from Fiveberries in Texas. I like simple ways of teaching things to children in terms that they can easily understand.
No Credit Needed has a great reminder about the value of time and compound interest. I got started with retirement savings at 22, so I’m a little behind this schedule.
Barton [...]

I bought a sewing machine today.  Now I can make things without having to wait until we’re visiting my parents.  We’re in the middle of painting our house (I took a break from it this evening to go pick up the sewing machine), so I have to wait until that’s done before I get into [...]

Some good reading I found on my blogroll today:
Scrapper Mom and Small Cents both have great posts about making your own frugal, healthful baby food.  My baby still has many moons to go before he’ll be ready for anything besides breastmilk, but when he is, I’ll be whipping up some yummy veggies in my food [...]

Turns out Frugal Babe has a lot in common with Zach from Pennywise and Pound Foolish.  We’ve both recently had babies, and we’re both committed to a frugal and ecologically sound lifestyle.  I wrote a guest post for Zach today, and he’s written one for me as well.  I’m not sure I deserve as much [...]

At the beginning of April, I set a goal to have 350 subscribers to this blog by the end of the month.  I’m happy to report that as of today, I’m at 360!  A big thank you to all my subscribers, and congratulations to Lynnae (who inspired me to try to increase my readership) who [...]

NtJS has tagged me to post our five biggest budget busters. We try really hard to avoid budget busters. For the most part we do a pretty good job, but there are always things that we spend money on that we hadn’t planned. So here goes…
1. Uplanned meals away from home. [...]

In between working on our floors and cleaning up all the construction mess in our house, I had time to do some reading from my blog roll.  Here are some great posts I found - inspiring, educational, and fun to read:
Melissa from A Penny Closer is going back to school.  I’m always impressed with the [...]

When I visited Mrs. Micah’s personal finance wiki, I discovered all sorts of new sites I hadn’t visited before, and came across lots of great articles from some of my favorite bloggers.  Here are a few highlights that inspired and/or intrigued me:
None of us are average when it comes to how much we’ll end up spending [...]

Mrs. Micah has created a personal finance wiki.  It includes a very comprehensive list of personal finance blogs, and will surely grow in scope as people add articles and links to the site.  This is sure to become a well-traveled site and a wealth of information all in one place - nice job Mrs. Micah!