Personal finances and the economy seem to be on everyone’s mind lately. We are blessed that my husband still has a job, but this recession has got us looking at how we spend our money. I like to think we are pretty frugal people, but there is always something more we could do. I thought [...]
My daughter signed up to do a bottle calf in 4H this year. Although we live on some land in the country, we did not have any outbuildings suitable for animals. We did, however, have a compost bin. Since we did not use the compost bin, my husband decided to take it apart and use [...]
My husband and I enjoy going out together without kids occasionally. However, in the past, we hardly ever went out because it was too hard to find a babysitter. The cost of babysitting was also a big problem for us. We didn’t feel like we could spend much on our evening because of the cost [...]
These days, it’s hip to be green and frugal. I was frugal way before it became in vogue, but all of the recent attention on penny pinching methods has got me looking for even more ways to stretch our dollars. One of my recent experiments is cloth napkins. I had some terry cloth fabric leftover [...]
