Tightwad Gazette Tour | That’s one way to get fill dirt
Ready for another trip down a frugal memory lane with the Tightwad Gazette? Let’s go! Cemetery dirt A reader wrote in to tell Amy that …
Book Reviews
Tightwad Gazette | Selective squeamishness
If you’re new here: we’re doing an intermittent series where we revisit articles from The Tightwad Gazette, aka the Bible of frugality. 😉 It’s been …
Tightwad Gazette Tour | Credit cards sure have changed!
Look at me, with only two weeks between Tightwad Gazette installments. Let’s go. 🙂 Turn your jeans into a japron, a jote bag, a jorganizer, …
Tightwad Gazette Tour | active and passive frugality
I finally had a moment to flip through the Tightwad Gazette again! We’re starting on page 343 in my big blue Tightwad Gazette book, with …
Tightwad Gazette Tour | Summer, from Book One
Ah! We are finally in a section of the book that is seasonally appropriate, at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. 😉 …
Tightwad Gazette Tour | Spring, from Book One
Alrighty! Time for the third edition of our trip through the Tightwad Gazette books. 🙂 This time around we are in spring from the first …
Tightwad Gazette Tour | Winter, from Book One
After I shared my last Tightwad Gazette post, a lot of you said you’d love for this to be a continuing series. Your wish is …
The Tightwad Gazette, revisited | Edition 1
I mentioned recently that I’m doing a reread of The Complete Tightwad Gazette. It’s been years since I have read it (probably since the very …
My medical memoir list + tiny reviews
As you probably already know, I have been on a serious medical memoir/medical non-fiction bender since early 2021. I adore memoirs, and I am interested …
Why I love Dinner Illustrated
If you’ve been following my menu plans this year, you’ve noticed a whole lot of our meals are coming from one cookbook: Dinner Illustrated. Dinner …
A small money-saving tip for Audible.com
Amazon links are affiliate links. See disclosure here. Recently, I posted that I was doing a one-month free trial of Audible so that I could …
What I’m Into | May
Since today’s the last day of May, how about a What I’m Into post for a Tuesday? What I Read I didn’t read quite as …
On being a money-making mom
(This post is inspired by Money Making Mom, which I’m giving away in this post. Not sponsored! This giveaway is now closed…congrats to Sarah!) For …
What I thought of The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
This book has been much-discussed in the blogosphere, and before I even read the book, the discussion made me think more about why I clean. …
Two very different personal finance books for young people
As a blogger, an awful lot of books for review end up in my mailbox, and through coincidence, two of the recent ones are books …