Frugal Ideas for Frugal Living
Bring Your Slow-Cooker to Work Day
It's eerie how my 1500-miles-away sister and I are on the same spooky mental wavelength sometimes. It happened again this week. I've been on a hot slow-cooker streak recently, and as you all know I've blogged about that a bit. ... more
Posted January 17th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
Friday Night Fun
In my house Friday Night is Date Night. What that means is dinner out, cooked by someone other than myself. Now that's what I call a good time. I even had a diet coke. I don't ... more
Posted January 16th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
Bean Counter
Here is the final tally for the first Bean-A-Palooza of 2010: 20 cups of pinto beans (made from 4 or 5 cups dry, I forget exactly) 10 cups of big limas (from 1lb dry) 8 cups of baby limas (from 1lb dry) 8 cups ... more
Posted January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
Speaking of the Sun….
I decided to dedicate a part of this week to a Bean-A-Palooza in order to replace my frozen bean supply that met an untimely end when "someone" left the freezer door open back in June. So far 20 cups of pinto ... more
Posted January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
Sun Sun Sun
When I use my solar cooker it needs to (mostly) be pointed south in order to cook effectively. So it occurred to me that I could use this same principle to turn my house into a solar cooker, too. In ... more
Posted January 13th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
My Husband’s Wood is Wet
That's what she said. One of my husband's favorite things to do is build fires. In the the fireplace. To that end, every winter we purchase about three 1/2 cords of wood at a time, $175.00 each. A ... more
Posted January 11th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
Smacked by Frugal Hacks?
So along about April I thought it be a fun idea to join the Frugal Hacks blogroll. I enjoyed reading the member blogs, and thought mine would be a good fit. But no. My humble blog has ... more
Posted January 9th, 2010 | Tags: Frugal Ideas
