Tangled Up in Blurg
I had a nice weekend. But that seems far away already. This week, I seem to be fighting off some kind of illness — I am tired and achy and […]
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Musical Dressers
It’s the end of a satisfying weekend. Friday, my in-laws came to visit and watched the kids while I finally finished painting the dresser I bought off craigslist. On Saturday, […]
No-Spend September; Out-of-Pocket October
Limping across the finish line into October after my no-spend September. We ended up with a small surplus, about $270, plus the enforced, automatic transfer to savings of $300. So […]
Thrifty Tuesday and a Room of My Own
So I’ve never read anything by Virginia Woolf. One of many gaps in my English major education. But she wrote the essay A Room of One’s Own, which is about […]
Eat, Write, Love
What I’ve been up to: Staring at all my green tomatoes and willing them to ripen. Submitting an essay to Real Simple magazine’s annual Life Lessons essay contest. This year’s theme was: […]
More to Explore
There has been a lot going on lately; in my head, at least, not so much in the actual physical world. Saturday night, in particular, when I was trying to […]
My Silent Partner
There is a aspect of my attempts to follow the Compact and be more of a nonconsumer that I haven’t talked too much about. Namely, my husband. I wanted to […]
Village Person
Today I rediscovered the mother of all thrift stores: I hadn’t been inside Village Thrift in about 8 years. It’s in a somewhat shady location, and my memory of it […]
What Was That Noise?
Oh, just me shattering the Compact, by buying a brand-new king-size bed today. See, there needs to be a rider to the Compact to account for spouses that do not […]
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