Christmas time during a tight economy means you have to get creative to keep your family engaged. You can do it if you try.
Last Friday (9/4/09) the Associated Press headline read, “Recovery difficult as jobless rate hits 9.7 pct”. When you realize that people working part-time because they can’t find a full time job or people who have stopped trying to look for work aren’t even included in those figures, it’s clear that many of us are [...]
Sometimes I think life would be a whole lot simpler if we went back to the barter system. I know cash or plastic is easier to carry but with barter you cut out the middleman. My bank got sold to a bigger one last winter and I don’t care for some of the [...]
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When your budget runs into higher prices at the grocery store, it’s easy to find yourself making the same meals over and over. Don’t let yourself fall into that rut. It makes mealtime a drudgery instead of something to look forward to. Set aside a little time this weekend to investigate some [...]
I started this blog to keep myself accountable to help my budget and the world’s ecology by increasing my efforts toward a more frugal lifestyle. It’s not totally foreign to me. My parents raised 6 children on a budget. We all had chores. Dad gardened. Mom sewed and knitted. When we were older, she went [...]
I’m a little late picking up after the Holidays. Between traveling and illness, it has taken me a while to get back on my feet but I’m working my way back into it.
Sometimes a short vacation can give you a new perspective. When I stepped back from my keyboard, I realized that this blog is [...]
Christmas is over but that doesn’t mean we are done with shopping. Even on a tight budget, there are babies being born and birthdays to celebrate. If you are like me, you hate paying full price for something that someone else is getting a deal on.
I flew from Orlando to Charlotte after Christmas and wondered [...]
I read a recent article by Leslie Hatfield called Desperate Times Don’t Call For Spam: Eating Green On A Budget in which she said that of the few companies actually prospering in hard economic times, SPAM is a winner. For those who don’t know, it is a processed meat product that comes in a tin [...]
