Frugal Babe

My two sisters in law and their five children are visiting us this week.  Today some of us went to a local amusement park, which I much preferred to the big Six Flags style park we went to a few days ago.  There were seven of us today, including the baby.  This park allowed us [...]

Before our son was born, my mother and I made about two dozen diapers for him. We followed a pattern we found online, and made the medium size diapers. We thought they would fit him for about 4 - 6 months. When he was born, he was just under 7 lbs. [...]

I love to cook.  Trying new recipes and putting together interesting and tasty meals is one of my favorite things.  But trying new recipes can get expensive, since it seems like there’s always at least one thing that I don’t have on hand.  So I’ve learned to improvise, and it usually works just fine.
Yesterday, I [...]

Our baby is nearly ten weeks old already.  Not sure where all that time went, but we’re having a blast getting to know him, and judging from his more frequent smiles and laughs, he seems to be enjoying it as well.  One thing he’s doing is growing.  Very quickly.  He was 6 lb, 15 oz [...]

We started talking more about our quest for solar panels last night.  Our local energy company does some pretty huge rebates when you install panels, and that’s a great big plus.  We started contemplating the possibility of financing the panels in order to start using them sooner, but eventually decided to continue on our current [...]

I made a huge jar of sprouts yesterday.  I’m not sure what kind they were, because we bought them in bulk and the bag of seeds doesn’t have a label.  But whatever sprout seeds you buy, it’s one of the cheapest ways to get good veggies in your diet.  We sprout about a quarter cup [...]

I rode my bike around town today, running errands. I stopped at the post office, and noticed an H2 sitting in the parking lot, with the engine running and one person in the passenger seat. Obviously the driver had gone into the post office and the passenger wanted AC. When I came [...]

I was cruising around my blogroll and found this post from Dawn at Frugal For Life.  Which led me to this post at Casaubon’s Book.  I think this is a great list.  I don’t claim to be an expert on world energy use, or timeframes for using up what we’ve got.  But it doesn’t take [...]

We bought a solar oven that we found on Craigslist a few days ago. So far we’ve made our breakfast oatmeal, my husband has boiled water for his coffee, we made yesterday’s lunch (brown rice, with eggs and frozen veggies mixed in at the end), and today I baked biscuits and reheated some lasagna [...]

Before our baby was born, I made a commitment to cloth diapers.  I couldn’t bear the thought of several thousand disposable diapers sitting around in landfills for thousands of years; I didn’t want to spend $15/week on diapers; and I hated the thought of whatever chemicals are in ’sposies that make them so absorbent (how [...]