Oh wow! I have just realized that this is my 101st post. In light of this momentous occasion, I thought I would do a post reflecting my favourite past posts, just like on Seinfeld or Friends – it is the one with all the flashbacks. The post that got the most reaction from my lovely [...]
Do you remember when no one wanted to sit next to you at lunch because your Mom made you a stinky egg salad sandwich? So what did you do a the clever age of 10? You chucked it out of course, because you didn’t want to be the kid with the stinky sandwich. Well I [...]
The frugal mindset is one of lack and thinking that I can’t afford things or even worse that I don’t deserve nice stuff because I don’t have enough in the bank. So when I see something that I want or more likely, I need, on offer, I feel compelled to try to buy the item [...]
When you use your loyalty points to buy lunch instead of paying money and still feel guilty that you did not brown bag it. When you search out private views so you can get a free glass of wine. When you make your next Christmas gift list in December so you make sure you take [...]
I started full speed ahead on my highway to frugality about 2.5 years ago. I must admit that it did take me a bit to really get going but now I am at full throttle. The odd thing is once frugality becomes a habit, you don’t realize you are doing it. It becomes second nature, [...]
I seem to be bumping into more and more ‘well off’ people that circumsances have changed whether it be from divorce, businesses failing or just the banks putting the squeeze on them. Well welcome to the frugal gang! We have all been there at sometime, I have been on frugal bandwagon for longer than I [...]
Is frugal behavior being kept a secret? Do you tell your colleagues that you are bringing your lunch to help with your Debt Snowball or Debt Tsunami or do you just say you are on a diet? I think how much one talks about money is a cultural thing. I originally come from NY and [...]
Usually I plan and write my weekly menu on Monday but today I am stuck with some horrible flu that refuses to go away. I was really ill in bed yesterday but dragged myself into the kitchen to make chicken stock and to dry some tomatoes, both which were on their last legs. Being [...]
Yes you read it correctly, but the definition I am using is – looking good on the outside without anything on the inside. I have been looking kind of ok on the outside but have been keeping it together with spit and gum. In what way you ask? I have been doing a bit too [...]
Way back in my second post, Lean Times Tools, I wrote about little things that make it easier to be frugal or lean. Then I was writing about, cutting off the end of a tube of toothpaste to get every last drop or using a mini spatula to dig out that last smear of skin [...]
We all know that there are numerous things you can do with a leftover chicken. I have made this handy chart for you to put on your fridge so when you are looking at that half eaten chicken and are not sure exactly what to do with it, you have a few ideas to hand. [...]
What ‘luxuries’ would you not give up? I like to live a nice life abet a fairly frugal one, so I made a list of the little luxuries in my life that I pretty much will not want to live without. Please comment if you think my ideas of luxuries are frivolous or down to [...]