Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully.
I totally neglected One Frugal Girl this week. I didn’t post Monday, because I was still catching up from my extended weekend in North Carolina. Tuesday night my meditation class was so amazing that I stayed an extra hour after class to talk with the teacher and a few of the students. Wednesday night I … Read more
A few weeks ago I came across a children’s book in Ross called Funky Things to Draw. Something about it’s pink and purple cover called to me. I picked it up and walked straight to the checkout counter. I usually analyze purchases in detail, (even small ones), but this time I didn’t hesitate. My niece … Read more
The rental company for our beach home provides a welcome basket to each of our guests. In my personal opinion it’s a sad excuse for a welcome basket. It contains two rolls of toilet paper, one roll of paper towels, a dish rag and two pitifully small bars of hand soap. This season I decided … Read more
In last night’s meditation class we focused on taking notice of our surroundings. We paused to listen to the sounds around us and within us. I was amazed by how quickly certain thoughts triggered emotions in my mind. In one instant I felt joy. In another sorrow. I was surprised by the intensity of these … Read more
Last week while we were vacationing at our beach home in North Carolina our refrigerator started to leak. This isn’t the first time we’ve had problems with this particular appliance, so we headed down to Sears to order a new one. In the case of a rental home, hundreds of miles from our primary home, … Read more
As I was driving around the beltway today in 5 o’clock traffic I noticed the temperature gauge in my fourteen year old car ticking higher and higher. It was miserably hot in DC today, somewhere between 95 – 100 degrees, and I feared the car might overheat, so I turned off the air conditioner and … Read more
Yesterday, with the help of Frugal Babe, I discovered that Vonage will provide a 20% discount for annual prepayment of phone services. We typically pay this bill monthly, but a 20% discount was enough incentive to convince me to change my ways. Prepayment knocked the $24.99 service costs down to $19.99 a month. It seems … Read more
During my lunch break I headed out to Rite-Aid to buy two boxes of cereal. I saw an ad on the front of the weekly sales circular for Lucky Charms and knew I had to buy some. I haven’t eaten the stuff in ages, but as soon as I saw the ad I began to … Read more
I just got back from my first paid meditation class of the summer. I participated in a free class a few weeks ago, with the same instructor, and enjoyed the course so much that I paid $65 tonight for a four course series. Meditation courses can be a strange experience. You enter a room full … Read more
My husband thinks I should stop blogging about the 29 day giving challenge and get back to blogging about personal finance, so I’m combining days ten and eleven here. My tenth gift was a gift to the environment. For the first time ever, I used all four of my reusable totes on a trip to … Read more