Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully.
I started writing this blog for myself. Over the years it’s become my journal. A way to write down my thoughts and share them with anyone wiling to read my words. I feel unbelievably blessed to live in an age where I can type words into a computer and have other people instantly read and … Read more
It’s a big day for One Frugal Girl and the number of new visitors to my site are going through the roof! I have to thank lifehacker and Free Money Finance for the links! Lifehacker linked to my post on purging clothes and Free Money Finance included me in the March Money Madness. If you … Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day to me! I won the Spoil Your Sweetie Contest hosted by the Ultimate Coupons blog! You can check out my entry here. I’m super excited to win $500 in gift cards and want to thank the Ultimate Coupons blog for sponsoring this contest. I also want to send a special shout out … Read more
From what I can tell my transition from Blogger to WordPress has been pretty smooth. It looks like ten posts didn’t transfer, though I have absolutely no idea which ten. My comments didn’t all transfer either. The total seems to be off by one hundred or so. I started writing this blog via Blogger in … Read more
I’m in the process of moving my blog to a new domain. While the new blog is up and running redirects from the old one aren’t quite working yet. I hope to have everything functional again in the next day or two. At least some progress has been made.
I started One Frugal Girl as a simple means to document my relationship with money. It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly six years since I wrote my first post! I am grateful to everyone who leaves comments or sends me emails. I’ve grown to know a number of bloggers and commenters personally. One or … Read more
On March 4, 2006 I wrote the very first post for One Frugal Girl. I can’t believe five years have passed since I started this blog! I was in such a different place in my life at that time. I felt physically broken. I had undergone a difficult and painful surgery and was only a … Read more
I’ve been neglecting One Frugal Girl lately. Between working crazy hours and spending quality time with family and friends I just haven’t had the time to sit in front of my computer to blog. I haven’t forgotten about this little blog. I’ve just been really swamped with work during the week and playtime when the … Read more
Two long time readers recently emailed me with questions about advertising and revenue on this blog. After responding to their inquiries I decided to write a post about the subject. First let me say that I never started this blog in the hopes of making money. As I’ve mentioned before I started this blog during … Read more
I’m still on vacation and after nearly thirteen days away from home I have absolutely no desire to head back home to the real world. The last few days the weather didn’t fully cooperate but today is absolutely beautiful. I haven’t spent any money since my last blog post. Despite the rain we played outside … Read more