It’s not too late to get your cow on! Today is “Cow Appreciation Day” and if you show up to your local Chick-Fil-A dressed up as a cow, you get a free meal! We went for lunch and met up with Aunt M & Cousin O. We used the free starter kit, provided by...
This weekend was super busy, I will attempt to record it all before I forget everything. So, we decided to have another yard sale. We had one last year over Memorial Weekend and we got rid of so much stuff then, I wondered if we’d have enough junk to host another sale, but surprise...
Today has been a low-key, kick it around the house, kind of day. While we were in the backyard this morning, I reminded Mike that we should take a picture of his motorcycle so we could list it on Craigslist. He agreed, and so we did. His bike is a 1998 Honda Hawk GT...
Most people already know about Swagbucks, but, as usual, I am late to the party (a trendsetter, I am not). I finally joined a few weeks back, and decided to try it out for a while before deciding if it was worth promoting. Now that I’ve had spent a month or so using it,...
My car has been reminding me that it needed an oil change all weekend, so I made plans to take care of it today. The last time I got an oil change, I took the car to Jiffy Lube. I wanted the convenience of a quick turnaround and didn’t mind paying what I thought...
Date Night is important, but unfortunately, there’s no money in the budget right now for babysitters. So we had to get creative and improvise. The way we currently achieve “Date Night” is by designating one night of the week as Date Night. It’s currently Tuesdays. We told our kids (ages 6, 4 and 2)...
Wendy, my kindergartner, is a lunch bringer. Her Dad packs her lunches most mornings, something I am eternally thankful for. But she began to complain that she wanted a chance to buy her lunch at school occasionally, so we worked out a deal. If she did a good job eating her lunch Mon –...
One of the ways we’ve trimmed our budget is to cut back on our Starbucks habit and make coffee at home each morning. I do love my “skim” vanilla mocha (with whip) every now and then, but now reserve it for special treats. I find if I make a pot of coffee in the...
We’re working hard to trim our budget, so we aren’t as footloose and fancy free as we used to be when it came to spending money on fun kid activities. We recently discovered Arlington county pools have “free swim” for kids on Saturdays. Meaning, you arrive between 1 and 3pm, pay for the adult(s)...
I’m trying to live more frugally and have joined the ranks of the crazy coupon ladies. I’ll share more of my exploits another time, but I did want to show off my recent haul from Giant: I got all this for the low low price of … $33.48! And actually, it was...
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