A little bit of this, a little bit of that

First, a quick reader question:

Do you still make homemade bread?

-Katy

Yes, but not nearly as much as I used to! Largely that’s because I am only feeding Zoe and me now.

But I do still sometimes make things like honey-glazed rolls or cinnamon bread. And just this past weekend, I made some overnight cinnamon rolls for us.

Interestingly, I make homemade yogurt and homemade granola way more regularly. Those things are easy to store on a longer-term basis, so they feel more practical with just two people.

Homemade bread can work for two people, but you have to be really careful to divvy it up and freeze it so it doesn’t go stale or moldy, and so I guess it just feels like a little more of a headache than yogurt and granola.

An Amy Dacyzyn connection

After I published the first post about the Tightwad Gazette, I got this comment from Debra:

The stolen soapbox speech was a sermon my Dad gave at the Leeds Community Church oh so many years ago. Amy was our neighbor, my Mom babysat ALL her kids. I remember the night she came by after dinner to sit and talk with my Dad about an idea she had. She started out with, “this is a crazy idea what do you think?” and the Tightwad Gazette was born! I spent many hours with other neighbors and members of our church opening mail. We went from a couple of trays to DOZENS following her appearances on The Home Show and of course Donahue! With every new subscription, we put a pin on map, we had to get a bigger map when she started with some international subscriptions. I also spent many hours stapling and addressing said newsletters. It’s so wonderful to see the ideas presented back then being relevant today. The soapbox speech was just a tiny bit of my Dad’s wisdom that he imparted upon us and our community. I’m touched that his words continue to touch others today <3

Oddly, she just randomly googled to try to find her dad’s sermon, and she happened to do it just a few days after I posted. What were the odds?

Read the Tightwad Gazette for free

If you want to follow along with us (we’re doing the “winter” section from the first book next Wednesday), try these sources that readers shared:

Volume I: https://archive.org/details/tightwadgazettep00dacy
Volume II: https://archive.org/details/tightwadgazettei00dacy
Volume III: https://archive.org/details/tightwadgazettei0000dacy

Here’s another option: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1961788W/The_Tightwad_gazette

Also, eBay usually has copies for pretty cheap. And you could try your library as well!

Save money for what’s important to YOU

I was listening to a podcast about time this last week, and the host was saying it’s important to save time for what is important to you in particular. Priorities vary from person to person, so to make time management work for you, this needs to be a personalized effort.

Save time in some areas so that you have it to spend in others.

And of course, the same is true when it comes to money. The point of saving money is so that you can spend it on what matters to you.

So, you need to figure out what that is. Otherwise, your money-saving efforts will feel a little bit aimless and unrewarding.

(It is necessary to point out that in some cases, we are so time-poor or money-poor that our efforts will, at best, just keep us afloat. Only when we get past that survival state will we have the freedom to think in terms of prioritization and goals.)

And now I’m off to do more online training for my new job. 😉