Category: Frugality
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Frugality, Value and Toilet Paper
As I do this “frugal living”, I have found I make a few mistakes along the way, yet I still learn. Thats what mistakes are for – learning. Recently, I haven’t found many deals on the toilet paper(tp) that I like. I prefer Angel Soft or Cottonelle, and they have usually been at a pretty…
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Don’t Blow the Rebate
I used to buy a lot of electronics and computer equipment that seemed like great deals due to mail in rebates. Then I’d let that rebate slip get lost in a stack of papers, or lose the receipt, and I rarely followed through on rebates. Now we have a system that ensures we take advantage…
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Garbage Dresser Refinishing
The apartment complex that surfgirl and I live in has dumpsters that rival almost any college dumpster. You can find some pretty interesting things. We’ve been needing a dresser for sometime, but it hasn’t been a priority. When surfgirl saw this one, we decided to pick it up (along with 17 pennies that dropped out)…
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Parts of Frugality
How I became Frugal- I would have to say I am one of the lucky ones, in that I grew up in a house where my Mom made things last and recycled what she could and my Dad fixed many things on his own. This was either out of necessity or convenience, depending on the…
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Hanging Out at the (Virtual) Mall
“If I don’t stop shopping, I’ll end up a bag lady; a Fendi bag lady, but a bag lady…” — Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw I believe I’m one of the few women that hate to shop. If I am lured to the mall, it’s because my partner, Jeanine, has dangled the “food” carrot.…
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Creativity and Vehicles
One of the ways that Surfgirl and I save money is by only having one car. This was a conscience decision to reduce expenses. It is also helpful that surfgirl is a SAHW (stay at home wife). Even when we both had jobs, we tried to work it out that our schedules didn’t conflict so…
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No Life Insurance for Us
We started contemplating term life insurance about four years ago. LaLa had just been laid off from our company and we were about to close on our first house purchase. Oh, and having poured all our savings into the purchase, we had no emergency fund (can you tell the layoff happened after the purchase, and…
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6 Meals From a Costco Chicken
If you have a Costco membership you probably already know about the chickens. A hot, plump, juicy, rotisseried bird for about $5 that has a lot of rapturous fans. Including me. LaLa and I can typically squeeze about 5-6 meals out of one chicken using a few simple recipes. Now that we are attempting to…
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Home Repair Ideas
Here they are in all their glory. Use them, laugh at them or add your own in the comments below. Just use common sense and always test an area first. To make aluminum doors look new, try scrubbing with a misture of baking soda and water or scrub aluminum foil over the door to shine…
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Diet Pepsi: The Cost of Consumption
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” — Vernon Howard Jeanine and I went to the Newport Beach Film Festival this weekend. One of the screenings was a documentary about the plight of Central American immigrants as they travel thousands of miles through Mexico to reach…
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