I Love Cheap Thrills
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun… on vacation. Vacation wins: I booked directly with the hotel chain and joined their rewards club (for free) and got a […]
Tag Archives: frugality
Magic Wagon Ride
On a recent Saturday morning, I took my trusty beach wagon back to the supermarket. The first time I did this, no one batted an eye, but on Saturday I […]
Summer Spending
We are past Memorial Day and into summer, which means it’s time to figure out just how much all the summer fun is going to cost me. The town pool […]
June, She Comes So Soon
Busy busy busy, but spring soccer has finally wrapped up and Flat Stanley is finished, ostensibly the last Flat Stanley project that I’ll ever oversee. The Blacktop Bash has come […]
This Never Happened
Wow, it’s May 19. How did that happen? Sorry for the gap in blogging. To find out what happened, I refer you to my memoir, set to be published in […]
First Day of Spring
On this first day of spring, my bedroom garden is doing well. Well, not the chives. I need to get rid of that pot or replant it. On Sunday, I […]
Experience Has Made Me Rich
[This is a post that I started at the beginning of the month but never quite wrapped up. Just going to publish it as is, too busy to edit further!] […]
Fifty Bucks: The Breakdown
Well, I did not stay under $50 in the Fifty Bucks til Friday Challenge. I did, however, stay under $100. And really, I only went over because I yielded to […]
Fifty Bucks Til Friday
My place of employment, as of 2019, is switching to a new payroll schedule. What that means for me is that when I got paid last Friday, I only received […]
Calamity Kitchen
Happy holidays from the McGuires’, where the house is still kind of trashed and many surfaces still bear a dusting of fire extinguisher residue. But more on that later! We […]
