Frugal Babe

Our kitchen remodel is off to a great start.  We spent all day yesterday gathering supplies, in true Frugal Babe fashion.  We bought a stove on Friday night that we found on Craig’s List for $175.  It was in a town about midway between my parents and us, so they met us at the lady’s [...]

We bought a new dishwasher today!  New to us anyway - we found it on Craig’s List and drove to the other end of town today to pick it up.  We paid $100.  It currently retails for $645, although the lady who sold it to us said that it’s about 7 -8 years old.  It’s fully [...]

Well Heeled is on a mission to not buy any clothes for six months. I like this idea, and I wish her well.  I’m having to consolidate my closets in preparation for the baby’s arrival.  I’ve been using the closet in my office (the room that will become the baby’s room in a few months) [...]

For quite a while now, I’ve wanted a manual lawn mower.  The kind that just has a bunch of blades on a barrel that turns as you push it - no noise, no emissions, no gas used.  We’ve been using a gas powered mower ever since we got our house.  We cut way back on the [...]

Last week we decided to get new curtains for our sliding glass door.  It’s always had ugly, cheap vertical blinds that were put in when the house was built in the 80s.  We went to Bed Bath & Beyond and splurged ($76) on beautiful wine colored curtains with tan streaks and grommets across the top for [...]

A couple people commented on my last post asking for more details about our Flavorwave.  So here’s the story.  Three years ago, my husband saw an infomercial on tv for the Flavorwave.  He was very impressed, but I was skeptical.  I assumed that it wouldn’t be as great as they made it look, and told [...]

I spent most of today helping a friend unpack her kitchen after a recent move.  We’ve been friends for ten years, and I’m thrilled that she and her husband have moved closer to where we live.  They’re only about 20 minutes away now, instead of an hour. 
They just bought new dishes as a housewarming present [...]

We watched the first half of Blood Diamond last night, planning to finish it tonight.  It’s horrifying to watch a movie like that, because even though you tell yourself that the people getting shot and hacked to pieces are just actors, you know it’s based on real life.  I was living in Africa in 1999, [...]

Our car expenses are nuts this month - it looks as if we have a car payment when I look at Microsoft Money!  We paid our car insurance for the rest of the year this month, and we had to pay our annual registration fee for both cars this month.  Both of them needed emissions [...]

My in-laws were visiting us for the last few days, and just left this morning.  They were in town for my husband’s cousin’s wedding last night.  They arrived on Thursday afternoon, bringing with them a new car for us!!!  They recently bought a 2004 Acura MDX, and offered to give us their old car.  It’s [...]