My money and my life

It's raining here again. It's been raining for about a week. Some mornings, after my husband leaves for work, I convince Baby Gir...

There's something I've been feeling like I needed to write for a long time, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it ...

It's been almost two months since my baby girl was born. I haven't written about it yet because I'm never quite sure how. She...

I think, if I could give one piece of advice to people looking for a way to get their lives, money and homes in order it would be this: don...

I've been working with kids, in some capacity, for close to ten years now. Even before that, I tutored and taught my friends and classm...

Since this whole stay at home wife (maybe SAHM someday, but not yet, hold your horses people) is new to me, I've been fumbling a little ...

My apartment complex has a pool. Until fairly recently, I have looked at it longingly but used it only rarely, even when I was only working...

On Friday, I wrote about Frugal ways to pamper yourself , but today I'm going to get a little more philosophical. A lot of frugal folks...

1. Read a good book. There's nothing good on TV anyway, so curl up in the evening with a good junk-food type novel that is purely for ...

I've been spending a lot of time quietly reflecting lately and something keeps popping into my thoughts. I keep thinking of something t...

Usually I start the summer with vast and far reaching goals: make money, write more, spend less, organize/declutter, finish projects, write...

I've been reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle , and one of the (many) things that struck me was an offhand comme...

Recently, Heather of Simple, Green, Frugal gave a talk on Voluntary Simplicity and it really got me thinking. The general crux of her pos...

"Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire Cat. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?'...

I don't know how it happens, but somehow around the middle of the academic year, my life always ends up full of junk. Some of it is phy...

6:30 AM - Tumble out of bed. Coffee is ready in the pot, thank goodness (and my timer). Make breakfast (toast from my homemade raisin brea...

Lately I've had quite a few posts that involved, in some way or another, not going out. Before people start to think I'm a monk, or...

1. Having more money in savings quells my anxiety about financial emergencies. 2. Having less stuff makes my house easier to clean. 3. Co...

There is really nothing I enjoy more than being lazy . Sitting with a cup of coffee and a book or taking a nap in the middle of the day are...

I can't believe how fast the summer is going by. Hubby and I just got back from spending 10 days with our families and while that usual...