Are you frugal or cheap? Heather gives us a great definition if what being frugal really means, because being frugal is not really just about the price.
I confessed several months ago on my personal blog that I have a drinking problem…a milk-drinking problem. I like to drink milk with breakfast, lunch, dinner and even for a snack in between! And apparently my 9-year-old has also succumbed to the lure of dairy. There have been many times when I have…I mean we [...]
Being frugal and being cheap tend to get lumped together a lot, especially by people who do not live, or understand, a frugal lifestyle. It is easy to get the two confused. Believe me, even if you are striving to live frugally, it is still easy to get trapped in the mindset of “cheaper is [...]
This is a guest post from Amy who recently starting blogging at The Finer Things in Life.
“You’re so lucky that you get to stay home.”
I hear that all the time, and although I do feel very blessed to be at home raising my children (where on earth would I rather be?), I can’t stand [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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