Frugality

Keeping up with the Blogosphere Joneses

May 25, 2010

If Neil and I have learned one thing in our twenties it’s that saving money is a lifestyle. Making sacrifices every day on a greater scale is about making life choices about the things that really matter. In the world of blogs, money swirls everywhere. It’s in the huge amounts of advertising, products, sponsorships and [...]

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Vintage I didn’t have to find

April 14, 2010

Couldn’t resist the humor in this… I grabbed Neil while he was loading the dishwasher to model the new tablecloth. For all the jokes and horror-stories about mother-in-laws, my circumstances could not be any more different. My mother-in-law is my surrogate mother, and she knows me. Like, really knows me. She and I share a [...]

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Grocery “Budget Reform”: Part 1

March 11, 2010

One of my favorite bloggers (Never Home)maker recently endeavored to lower both her grocery bill and budget. She’s not the first. In a recession economy, thousands are looking to save where they can and we’ve seen the revival of spreadsheets and creative lists, as well as new tech tools to help. These are all awesome, [...]

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Be My Frugal Valentine: Ideas for a Dinner Date at Home

February 12, 2010

This is an actual photo of Neil’s and my first dinner date at home. We lived three hours apart and only saw each other on the weekends,  so every weekend was compressed to include everything we thought normal couples would do or would be doing during the week in a new relationship. I was a [...]

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Be My Frugal Valentine: Cheapie Date Ideas

February 11, 2010

I’m always a little hesitant to tell people how to spend their holidays, especially those that involve dates. Dates are something personal and that’s the way they should be. How you grow closer to someone has to be on your terms and by your own methods. That being said, I know a lot of people [...]

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Be My Frugal Valentine: Valentines to Love for Under $20

February 10, 2010

I think I knew that that I would grow up to be a designer before I even knew what a designer was. As a kid, I plotted the look of my Valentine’s Day cards all year. It was my chance to show people my art, and my Valentine’s were always unlike anything anyone else gave [...]

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Happy Belated Valentine’s Week

February 10, 2010

Valentine’s Day is among the most commercialized holidays of the calendar year, offering retailers and businesses the opportunity to rake in an estimated $14.7 billion dollars last year. That number represented a steep decline over previous years if you can believe it. To many of us it’s the first time we open our wallets after [...]

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