The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

TikTokers are saying they hated growing up in an ingredient household (“Mom, why don’t we have snacks??”), Apparently, this is currently a hot topic over on TikTok, an app I do not have (because I do not even have time for Instagram right now). ”), but now they’ve turned into adults with ingredient households.

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I’m not going to buy them all the things, but I have no idea how to stop them from wanting them (or if that’s even my job as their mom). I remember my mom showing me how she balanced the checkbook every month and paid bills. The hardest is passing that frugal inclination on to my kids. They want me to buy all the things. Not really.

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The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

for the advantage of being a woman and a mom This semester one of our classes is women’s health/OB, and I’ve been saying that for this class, it’s a serious advantage to be a woman with kids. Now I just have to do this a bunch more times, and then I’ll be through the semester. ?

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The Frugal Girl

OCTOBER 26, 2023

” and then the girl in the reel jumped off a step and a post-it note fell out of her jeans with the words, “…you are a great mom” That made me cry, in a good way. for encouragement from Zoe She sent me a little Instagram reel the other day that said, “I hope you know that.”

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The Frugal Girl

DECEMBER 11, 2023

My husband and I have four kids ranging from age 3-8, and I am a stay-at-home mom. My name is Julia (JP when I comment, which is fairly sporadic), I am 35 and have been married for ten years. I have a degree in nursing and worked in pediatrics for 8 years, then left the profession right before I had my third child.

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The Frugal Girl

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pure necessity: I grew up with a single mom, who was only working odd jobs most of the time. And your story about the hand-me-downs from a boy cousin reminded me that when I was in early grade school, my mom put a pair of green pants (handed down from my older brother) in my drawer. How did you get interested in saving money?

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The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 29, 2024

Now I’m living on the small acreage that I was raised on (which is now smack dab in the middle of town & 2 miles from work) with my mom & my two kids, 15 & 8. We teamwork together to homeschool-I was homeschooled until nursing school, and I am privileged to be teaching my kids & have my mom assist on the days I work.

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The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

Today we’re meeting a reader who is an artist, a homeschooler, a boy-mom, and a renter by choice. I also want to have a sense of detachment from owning things, which is hard since I was raised by very acquisitive parents (my mom shopped for a hobby), so I am still unlearning those habits. Hello, everyone! Here’s Karen: 1.

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The Frugal Girl

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This mainly comes from ridiculous expectations that I feel like I need to meet because of the way my mom did Christmas. As far as Christmas stuff I do now…well, last Christmas and this Christmas, I’m in single mom and full-time college student mode. Do you bake for a lot of people?

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Oreo Spiderweb cake There, I’d make everything from homemade bread to Steak Diane (seriously – my mom came to visit one time and bought $100 worth of beef tenderloin so I’d have leftovers – at the time, that was like 5lb of tenderloin! They had me, and then my mom decided to go back to school full-time and get a PhD.

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can get free apples from my mom and uncle and we make it into applesauce – usually 60-80 jars. When I was pregnant with Zoe, I tackled a project in the foyer at my other house, and at one point when I was standing on a ladder, which was braced on some steps, Lisey said, “We should not tell your mom about this.”

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Mia and me in 2018, not too long after she moved to Ohio I knew her from church, and while we both are single moms pursuing an RN, she got an earlier start on both the divorce and the nursing school. This week, I am thankful: that my friend passed her NCLEX! Remember my friend Mia?

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The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school. My mom cut coupons and sewed her own clothes and mine, as well. (I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.)

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The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

My dad taught my mom how to drive manual, my uncle taught my aunt, my fiancé even taught his ex how to drive manual. Last year I bought a manual car for $14k in cash, thinking I would learn to drive manual. Manual cars are generally cheaper than automatic and have better gas mileage because they are lighter weight).

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The Frugal Girl

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

for a phone date with my friend Mia Mia and me in 2018 She’s a busy single mom who just graduated from nursing school (and I’m a busy nursing school student) so mostly we manage to text each other. We all know Lisey is gonna make friends with them.)

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