This little lamb jacket from speesees, one of my favorite children’s clothing companies, was impossible to resist. A good friend of ours is having a little girl after wanting a baby for a very long time, so my husband and I really wanted to give her and her husband a nice shower gift. And this […]
My First Real Temptation: AKA "The Skirt"
A few weeks ago, my husband and I attended a “block party” event in nearby Pasadena. The shops and restaurants in the downtown area known as “Old Town Pasadena” were opening their doors and offering free champagne, appetizers, wine, and raffle prizes. Free stuff, we’re there. Of course they weren’t doing it out of the […]
Oldies but hopefully Goodies
I’m on vacation this week, but I thought I’d leave you with a few of my most popular blog posts of the past eight months. Unless you’ve been reading this blog all year, they’re probably new to you. Here’s one for each of the days I’ll be gone: Husband’s Compact-y Birthday (wherein we discover we […]
Buy Nothing New mid-year report
Yesterday I realized that I’m exactly halfway through my year of following The Compact. As I looked at a couple of my first posts, I couldn’t believe how differently things have gone from what I expected when I embarked upon this journey. The woman who set off on a panicked shopping spree for the perfect […]
Whoops!
I bought something new. I’m a member of a Book Club. A really awesome Book Club. I like everyone in it, and I’m honored to be a member. I LOVE my Book Club. For the past two or three years, I’ve been getting the Book Club book from the library. They weren’t always that great, […]
What do you splurge on?
I feel a confession coming on… Since I joined The Compact and started writing this blog, I’ve learned so much about simple living and frugal living from visiting other blogs. But sometimes I feel a little hypocritical about associating myself with the frugal lifestyle, and I might hesitate in calling myself a Frugalista. I’m not […]