Category: Frugal Living
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Cheapskate Stories – Housing Sales and Group Dinners
Tweet So, we’ve been living in our house about a month now and I continue to get annoyed about the cheapness of the people we bought the house from. We went into this purchase with eyes wide open knowing that the house is a gut job and needed LOTS of work. We paid what we…
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Growing Up Frugal – The Rag Store
Tweet So Single Mom Rich Mom is posting again too..Hurray. She wrote a funny article about the similarities of Chuck Norris to Mr. Money Moustache. The article was pretty funny, but in the comments, it even got more interesting. You see, MMM is big on living the extreme frugal lifestyle..or at least talking about it…
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Staying Motivated during Debt Reduction
Tweet In my previous post on life lessons learned from debt freedom, rented life asked: When you went all in, (relating to cutting expenses) how did you sustain that? We could cut a few things–our bi-weekly date night (a movie, or a dinner, never both), eating less meat (though that doesn’t appeal to me, as…
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Life Lessons I Learned from Debt Freedom
Tweet This post is dedicated to Mutant Supermodel, who reached out to me and told me my posts were missed. Thank you for the inspiration to put pen to paper again. So a lot has happened since my last post a few months ago. Babci was in the hospital a couple of times (she is…
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Top Seven Ways To Save Money
Tweet I’ve been asked to come up with my list of the top ways I’ve saved money over the years. When I think of my big budget busters, they have always been, house, car, and food. I’m going to try and take a fresh twist on the subject, with the premise that spending a little…
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Spendaphobia – I think I have it
Tweet I’m house hunting. It’s clearly something that’s right for my family. The thought of living in a bigger home that can house my mom on a little more land is SO appealing…but I’m going through sticker shock. The good news is that having bought 2 fixers already, I can clearly see the potential in…
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Frugal Living: The Shoe Cobbler
Tweet One of the quirky things about our downtown is that we have some old timey businesses still plugging away that have probably been long forgotten in many parts of suburbia. One of those businesses is George, the Shoe Cobbler. George is an immigrant and his store has probably been around for as long as…
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Babci on Remodeling: Do 1 Room per Year
Tweet The 3 family house my parents bought in the 1970’s was $10,000. They paid cash for it and it was near condemned. The 3rd floor apartment had a toilet right smack in the middle of the kitchen where the sink was supposed to be and it had a ladder to access the 3rd floor…
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Do Credit Cards Make Finances Simple
Tweet I have the ultimate role model when it comes to simplified personal finances. I often wonder if Babci even has a credit score. She’s always been on a cash only basis. It wasn’t until I started managing her finances that she broke down and got a checking account. You’re probably going to ask how…
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Some Materialism is Good For You
Tweet On this blog, I make Babci sound like some kind of super granny. She is awesome that’s for sure, but there are some things about her simple living philosophy that make me go absolutely bananas. As I analyze why Babci would do some of the things that press my hot buttons, I try to…