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Have you ever had one of those days when you run from store to store with a long list of items that seems to get longer and longer by the minute? Well Saturday was that day for me. My husband and I hit a total of 11 stores and restaurants in a three hour period … Read more
There is nothing worse to me than unnecessarily paying more money for things than I expected, so when I pulled into the gas station on my way home from work I looked up at the big board and noted the price. It was higher than I would typically like to pay, (I know there are … Read more
I’ll be a bridesmaid and eight months pregnant for a family wedding in September. I ordered the dress this evening and was told to order three sizes larger than my current size. I figured I’d need a size or two larger, but I’m pretty surprised that they suggested such a large dress. The dress has … Read more
With a little one on the way I’m trying to decide whether or not it’s worth it to stock up on diapers. Between Rite Aid, CVS and Amazon there are quite a lot of deals that enable savvy moms to buy diapers for 90 to 95 percent off the retail prices. A lot of the … Read more
I decided to review our current insurance policies with a little one on the way. After careful consideration, I’m very close to purchasing a cheap term life insurance policy for my husband. We bought our current policy three years ago, a 20-year term for $500,000. At the time, we owed very little to our primary home and … Read more
Because I blog anonymously I rarely discuss my crazy coupon strategies or tell people just how frugal I am. My good friends know about One Frugal Girl, but the majority of people in my life don’t know how I stock up when triple coupon day arrives at Harris Teeter or how I go on a … Read more
Thoughts: Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them Frugality is not about penny pinching but rather enjoying life with unnecessary materials. Get value from everything. Enjoy all the good that each moment has to offer. Relish eating. Frugality is being efficient in harvesting happiness from the world … Read more
As I mentioned on Friday I suddenly find myself with a long to-do list that never seems to end. Add to that the beginning of pregnancy brain, (the failure to remember why I went into the living room or where on earth I put my juice), and you have a recipe for letting things slip. … Read more
My to-do list is perpetually growing. Somehow I keep looking at the list but making little to no progress with it. It’s not that I don’t try to get things done, it’s just that the universe is not cooperating. I called a bunch of places for baby related things like child care, but nothing could … Read more
Although I don’t want to find out the gender of our little one until the day he or she is born, I have a suspicious feeling there’s a girl in there. Around the two month mark of my pregnancy I found myself obsessed with shopping for clothes. So far I’ve avoided the maternity departments, because … Read more