Frugal Babe

I just came across an interesting couple of posts at Being Frugal and Smart Easy Money that really made me think.  The original post was at Being Frugal, and then the counter point is at Smart Easy Money.  Basically the question is whether you get any additional value for buying extremely expensive stuff (the example cited [...]

I just got back from spending a few days with one of my best friends who just had a baby - hence the lack of posts this week.  This is baby number 2 for my friend and her husband, and I knew that they could use some help.  I wasn’t able to do much for the [...]

I’m back from my weekend with the girls.  We had a blast - it felt like we were back in college, and we laughed until our sides hurt.  We went for a great hike on Saturday, and the town we were in was having an arts and crafts fair while we were there.  One of [...]

Ok, so much for my decision to not run any more races for a while.  I have no idea what went wrong on Monday, but I had my worst-ever 10k finish.  They haven’t posted exact times yet, but my watch was showing about 48 minutes.  Ouch.  That’s almost 4 minutes slower than I should have [...]

We got back last night at 1:30am from our long weekend in Moab for the 2007 Munifest.  If you’ve never heard of Muni - mountain unicycling - you’re not alone.  I had never heard of it either until last spring when we were mountain biking and saw some guys riding their unicycles on some crazy terrain.  My [...]

We’ve been in Arizona this week, visiting my in-laws.  They’re from Wyoming, but for the past few years they’ve been spending the winter in AZ, in their motor home.  They have a sweet motor home and a sweeter place to park it down here.  They’re in a 55+ community of motor homes and trailers with [...]

I’ve always been a goal setter. Be it school, work, or money, I set goals. I don’t normally write them down, but they’re always front and center in my head. I just read a post by Millionaire Artist about her new goal screensaver - very creative. It got me thinking - should I write down [...]

I sat down to write about my favorite cheap food, and ended up reading all sorts of other pf blogs.  Before I knew it, I’d been clicking from one to another for well over an hour.  Wow, time flies when I’m reading lots of stuff from people who think like I do.  I just discovered [...]

We got home from Hawaii a couple days ago, and we’re getting back to normal.  Overall, we did a pretty good job at being frugal on vacation.  We had a few dinners out, and took a trip to the Big Island, but we didn’t buy a lot of junk, and we stayed within our budget.  [...]

J and I love to travel.  We’ve been to some great places, and have lots of places that we’ve love to go in the future.  We’re loving our time in Hawaii right now.  We’ve only been shopping for about 15 minutes during the five days we’ve been here, and it was to buy a couple [...]