This post could be titled “Ten Alternative Pick-Me Ups to sugar, caffeine, alcohol, or shopping,” but that’s kind of long, so let’s call it a subtitle. I’m using this photo because I think my friend and I both look pretty happy. I love this post by Kristen at The Frugal Girl about contentment. I won’t […]
Frugal Vacations
The following is a reprint of a previously published post. That’s a photo of me taken last summer in London. Yes, it’s freezing. It’s cold in London in the summer. But it was a fantastic trip! We went there for the theater, the museums, the Indian food, the history, and walking the streets. We didn’t […]
Why are you frugal, or semi-frugal, or resourceful?
The following is a reprint of a previously published post. After I wrote yesterday’s post “What do you splurge on?” it occurred to me that maybe I should have started with the question “Why are you frugal?” Because there’s no point in being frugal for the sake of being frugal. There needs to be a […]
Blue Hair Day
This is far from my favorite photo of myself. No makeup, bad angle, and I look tired and a little frightened or skeptical of the photographer (my husband!) But I promised you a photograph of my blue hair streak, and you can see it pretty well here. It’s already a little faded, but I have […]
My Perfect Birthday
My husband took this photo of me last week on my birthday. We went on one of my favorite hikes and it was an absolutely gorgeous day. The air was clear, the hills were green from all the rain this winter, and there were flowers everywhere. These yellow flowers are coreopsis, and we were lucky […]
Girl Time
That’s me with my 7-year-old niece. We were able to get in some quality niece-aunt bonding during our visit last week when we slept together on the floor two nights in a row. My husband took this cute photo. I am so lucky to have such a sweet niece, she actually says things like, “Aunt […]