Pumpkin cookies, pumpkin carving, pumpkin painting (and regular painting…)
Usually I try to post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But I posted on Monday and Tuesday, and the gap from Tuesday to Friday seemed …
Five Frugal Things | plus a $15 offer from Top Cashback
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. 1. I bought …
One tip to avoid food waste: Eat things that don’t go together
One of my readers left a comment recently saying that my menu posts had inspired her to not worry so much about making meals where …
WIS, WWA| Name-brand crackers are better. The end.
What I Spent Incidentally, on Instagram and Facebook this week, we chatted about off-brand crackers. My thought is that there are almost no good generic …
Five Frugal Things | $5 coats, two mending jobs + more!
1. I got 2000 bonus points with Fetch. I got a promo email about Fetch, which is an app kind of like Ibotta, where you …
Would you rather be good at earning or good at saving?
Obviously, we’d all choose to be good at both. But if you HAD to choose between one or the other, which would you pick? This …
What I Spent, What We Ate | we went camping!
What I Spent We took a camping trip last weekend in the Shenandoah valley with my brothers and my parents last weekend, which was a …
A Dollar Shave Club review from a household of women!
Freshly updated with current information and links as of today, September 25, 2022. 😉 Some years ago, I blogged about how we really liked the …
Five Frugal Things | I mended a sweater and I am quite excited about it.
1. I asked for a ThredUp discount. Sonia found me a $14 Ann Taylor cashmere sweater, and when it arrived, we discovered it had a …
What I Spent, What We Ate | A week of requests
What I Spent I spent $148 this week on an embarrassing number of stops! In addition to Costco, I have five other stops recorded. Geez. …
Five Frugal Things | CVS “savings” are inflated.
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Stitch Fix September 2019 | I’m going to sell a few things
Thanks to Sonia for taking the pictures of me. This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to …
Lazy Daisy Cake Recipe
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Years ago, at …
What I Spent, What We Ate | Does anyone NEED Nutella?
What I Spent I spent $128 at the grocery store and $25 on my Hungry Harvest box. (What’s Hungry Harvest?) This means I’d be starting …
Five Frugal Things | My costumes are selling now!
1. I sold four costumes! You guys were 100% right when you said that eBay was a better place to offload costumes. I had them …