INDUSTRY INSIGHTS YOUR PEERS ARE READING
I did my end-of-month numbers round up last week, because I forgot that May actually had one more week. Whoops. I’m just gonna add them into today’s post, with updated numbers. What I Spent. I skipped my Hungry Harvest box this week because I had too much produce to use. MORE
See Tuesday’s meal for the BLT mention. What I Spent. I didn’t get a Hungry Harvest this week (I’m trying every other week this summer to see if that works out well), and I spent $160 at the grocery store. What We Ate. Saturday. Pizza night! I bought pizza instead of making it. MORE
This has popped up on my menu plan a few times here and there and lots of you have asked for the recipe. But it’s taken me FOREVER to get around to posting it. Sorry ’bout that! This is a soft, slightly sweet white bread. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. If you’re trying to avoid using disposable products (a sensible frugal move!), make it inconvenient to use them. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. I filled out a survey for $20. Remember that TV show I watched so I could complete a paid survey for $200? MORE
Spiced nuts are often considered to be a holiday food, but I love having them around for topping summer salads. So, today I’m republishing this recipe in honor of the arrival of salad season! MORE
I’m getting a late start today, so here’s a recipe from my archives. If you have small kids to bake with, you really should give this a try. It’s been a hit with 100% of the kids who have visited my house, not to mention my own kids! MORE
I fixed my vacuum. One of my kids was vacuuming and somehow the whole thing tipped over and got stuck in the non-upright position. I fiddled with it a bit and couldn’t get it to pop back up. I was about to give up, but I did a little googling and found the answer on a forum. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. In an issue of Cook’s Country or Cook’s Illustrated (I can’t remember!), I saw that they recommended the Frywall. What’s a Frywall? MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. If you’re new here, each week I share my grocery totals and also what we ate in the past week. MORE
I was listening to a How to Money podcast episode recently (while sanding Sonia and Zoe’s beds!) and they said something about spending triggers…which triggered some thinking for me. MORE
Back in April, CNN published an article about a global diet study that had sort of surprising results: Many diet-related deaths are due not to over-consumption of bad foods, but to under-consumption of good foods, such as whole grains, fruit, nuts, and seeds. MORE
Kristen, Gosh, time has flown by! Just read your post about having two HS grads — I think I started reading your Frugal Girl when everyone was a baby! Zoe and me around the time I started blogging. So, I was just wondering if you had been doing any advanced planning for an empty nest? MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. I modified my niece’s shorts. So this was frugal for her, not me. She ordered a pair of shorts online, and the legs were surprisingly enormous. MORE
I am a long-time (happy!) subscriber to Cook’s Country, and occasionally to Cook’s Illustrated. I consider my subscriptions to be an investment in my efforts to cook at home, and cooking at home saves so much money, a magazine subscription is a tiny thing to pay for. MORE
I think there’s a difference. People who are passionate about cooking seem to really enjoy the process. They like to play around in the kitchen, and cooking seems to fulfill some creative desires inside of them. MORE
(This is a post I wrote 9 years ago, and I thought it needed to see the light of day again.). Ahh, perfectionism. It almost sounds like a virtue, doesn’t it? In reality, it is such a snare in so many ways, not the least of which is its tendency to render us immobile. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. I sold a Duplo squirrel. Sonia and I packed away the Duplos for storage while tidying her room, and I decided to sell this squirrel. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. For the last few months, I’ve been taking a photo a day, using prompts from Fat Mum Slim. MORE
Way back in 2003, when I was pregnant with Sonia, we bought a bunkbed for Joshua and Lisey to share. Later, Lisey and Sonia shared it, and then until last year, Sonia and Zoe shared it. So, every kid in our family has slept in this bed! MORE
Big wins, sudden breakthroughs, and “aha!” ” moments are what we’d all love to experience. But in my experience (ha), those happen really, really rarely. In pretty much every area of my life, progress has happened slowly over time. MORE
happy that my workout for today is done. I love what working out does for me; I do not love the process. REALLY happy that we are having a cool morning after a serious heat wave last week. feeling great because I had a cool shower. MORE
What I Spent. It was an expensive week for us here! I spent $179 at Aldi and Costco, plus $25 on my Hungry Harvest box. Luckily, I only spent $120 last week. July Spending. Week 1: $120. Week 2: $204. What We Ate. Saturday. Easy button night: we got some frozen pizzas! Sunday. MORE
Sixth Continent gift cards are sometimes not downloading. I have used and loved the site for months now, as have many of you. But recently, problems have begun to crop up. Multiple readers let me know this week that they’ve ordered gift cards and have not been able to download them. MORE
(From our Father’s Day trip to a local park). What I Spent. It was an off week for Hungry Harvest (I’m trying every other week to see if that’s more manageable), and at the grocery store I spent $195. Good thing I didn’t get a Hungry Harvest! MORE
Recently, I was out with Mr. FG for dinner and I saw a big snickerdoodle cookie at the cash register. I hadn’t had a snickerdoodle in ages, so I decided to give it a try. Friends, let me tell you: It was a crushing disappointment of a cookie. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Oddly enough, until a few years ago, I’d never had a popover, despite having seen them in cookbooks for years. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. (I I originally found these muffins on All Recipes years ago, and I’m resharing the recipe now with a printable recipe card!). MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. We are mostly finished with school, the weather is warm, and we had watermelon this week. So, basically summer. What I Spent. MORE
I sold Zoe’s school books. She finished school last week and I listed, sold, and shipped her non-consumable textbooks. The nice thing about your youngest kid finishing books is that you can get rid of them! No more schoolbook storage once she’s done with them.). MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. (I I thought about it for a long time and could not come up with a better title than that. It’ll be what it’ll be.). MORE
Well, hi! I’ve been absent for two days, due partially to the holiday and also to the fact that I have been busy painting. I have things to show you next week! What I Spent. I spent $120 at the grocery stores this week, and I accidentally did not get a Hungry Harvest. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Poor girl. Apparently while her back was turned, some other neighborhood kids made off with it. We tried putting the word out in the neighborhood, but heard nothing. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. This is an usually low-photo post for me. I just haven’t picked up the camera much this week since I’ve been busy painting. What I Spent. MORE
What I Spent. I spent $151 at the grocery store and $25 on my Hungry Harvest box. So, $176 total. June Spending. Week 1: $160. Week 2: $176. What We Ate. Saturday. Mr. FG and I went out to Five Guys for a quick date night. MORE
It’s been a good Monday morning so far…I worked out, showered, took Sonia to her tutorial, went to Aldi and another store, and did some laundry. And it’s not quite 11:00 am. But I did not write a blog post. So, we’re gonna just have a quick little Five Frugal Things today. MORE
For the last two months, I’ve been taking a photo a day, using lists of prompts from the internet. I enjoy taking photos, and having a daily prompt makes me pick up my camera more often than I otherwise would. And it also makes me take photos of things I otherwise wouldn’t! MORE
Did you incur a late fee? Have you forgotten to pay a bill and been charged interest? Did you miss the return window on a purchase? Did cancelling that appointment slip your mind? The one where you have to pay the full amount? Maybe you broke something expensive or botched a repair. MORE
Time for Five Frugal Things, people. I used a cereal bag to freeze turkey. I saved the enormous plastic bag from a Costco-sized box of Cheerios because I thought it might come in handy. And it did, yesterday! MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Last November, I walked into Goodwill and spied this dresser. MORE
Every summer I make a list of fun things and productive things I want to do before summer “kicks the bucket” I post updates every few weeks to let you guys know how I’m doing (and to hold me accountable!). Ok, one month of summer is gone already. MORE
In May, my goal was to read a chapter a day, and I think I exceeded that. I finished seven books in May, actually! Four of them (Vinegar Girl, Dept. of Speculation, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, and The House on Mango Street) were pretty short, though, so this sounds more impressive than it is. MORE
I’m using up pumpkin in my oatmeal. I made a batch of pumpkin muffins on Monday and annoyingly enough, they did not use the whole can. So, I’ve been stirring a few tablespoons of pumpkin into my oatmeal, along with spices like allspice and cloves. MORE
My Hungry Harvest yesterday was mostly vegetables. In fact, I think the only fruit was a bag of large apricots and some kiwifruit. This is fine, but I (and probably a lot of people!) find fruit to be a whole lot easier to eat than vegetables. MORE
The Frugal Girl
JULY 17, 2019
Sixth Continent gift cards are sometimes not downloading. I have used and loved the site for months now, as have many of you. But recently, problems have begun to crop up. Multiple readers let me know this week that they’ve ordered gift cards and have not been able to download them.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 10, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Last November, I walked into Goodwill and spied this dresser.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 18, 2019
I am a long-time (happy!) subscriber to Cook’s Country, and occasionally to Cook’s Illustrated. I consider my subscriptions to be an investment in my efforts to cook at home, and cooking at home saves so much money, a magazine subscription is a tiny thing to pay for.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 8, 2019
Way back in 2003, when I was pregnant with Sonia, we bought a bunkbed for Joshua and Lisey to share. Later, Lisey and Sonia shared it, and then until last year, Sonia and Zoe shared it. So, every kid in our family has slept in this bed!
The Frugal Girl
JULY 5, 2019
Well, hi! I’ve been absent for two days, due partially to the holiday and also to the fact that I have been busy painting. I have things to show you next week! What I Spent. I spent $120 at the grocery stores this week, and I accidentally did not get a Hungry Harvest.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 19, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. If you’re new here, each week I share my grocery totals and also what we ate in the past week.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 2, 2019
I was listening to a How to Money podcast episode recently (while sanding Sonia and Zoe’s beds!) and they said something about spending triggers…which triggered some thinking for me.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 12, 2019
What I Spent. It was an expensive week for us here! I spent $179 at Aldi and Costco, plus $25 on my Hungry Harvest box. Luckily, I only spent $120 last week. July Spending. Week 1: $120. Week 2: $204. What We Ate. Saturday. Easy button night: we got some frozen pizzas! Sunday.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 24, 2019
Did you incur a late fee? Have you forgotten to pay a bill and been charged interest? Did you miss the return window on a purchase? Did cancelling that appointment slip your mind? The one where you have to pay the full amount? Maybe you broke something expensive or botched a repair.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 9, 2019
Every summer I make a list of fun things and productive things I want to do before summer “kicks the bucket” I post updates every few weeks to let you guys know how I’m doing (and to hold me accountable!). Ok, one month of summer is gone already.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 28, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. If you’re trying to avoid using disposable products (a sensible frugal move!), make it inconvenient to use them.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 21, 2019
(From our Father’s Day trip to a local park). What I Spent. It was an off week for Hungry Harvest (I’m trying every other week to see if that’s more manageable), and at the grocery store I spent $195. Good thing I didn’t get a Hungry Harvest!
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 19, 2019
I fixed my vacuum. One of my kids was vacuuming and somehow the whole thing tipped over and got stuck in the non-upright position. I fiddled with it a bit and couldn’t get it to pop back up. I was about to give up, but I did a little googling and found the answer on a forum.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 5, 2019
I think there’s a difference. People who are passionate about cooking seem to really enjoy the process. They like to play around in the kitchen, and cooking seems to fulfill some creative desires inside of them.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 22, 2019
Spiced nuts are often considered to be a holiday food, but I love having them around for topping summer salads. So, today I’m republishing this recipe in honor of the arrival of salad season!
The Frugal Girl
MAY 22, 2019
Time for Five Frugal Things, people. I used a cereal bag to freeze turkey. I saved the enormous plastic bag from a Costco-sized box of Cheerios because I thought it might come in handy. And it did, yesterday!
The Frugal Girl
MAY 23, 2019
Kristen, Gosh, time has flown by! Just read your post about having two HS grads — I think I started reading your Frugal Girl when everyone was a baby! Zoe and me around the time I started blogging. So, I was just wondering if you had been doing any advanced planning for an empty nest?
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 14, 2019
What I Spent. I spent $151 at the grocery store and $25 on my Hungry Harvest box. So, $176 total. June Spending. Week 1: $160. Week 2: $176. What We Ate. Saturday. Mr. FG and I went out to Five Guys for a quick date night.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 15, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. I sold a Duplo squirrel. Sonia and I packed away the Duplos for storage while tidying her room, and I decided to sell this squirrel.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 17, 2019
I’m getting a late start today, so here’s a recipe from my archives. If you have small kids to bake with, you really should give this a try. It’s been a hit with 100% of the kids who have visited my house, not to mention my own kids!
The Frugal Girl
MAY 29, 2019
I sold Zoe’s school books. She finished school last week and I listed, sold, and shipped her non-consumable textbooks. The nice thing about your youngest kid finishing books is that you can get rid of them! No more schoolbook storage once she’s done with them.).
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 26, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Poor girl. Apparently while her back was turned, some other neighborhood kids made off with it. We tried putting the word out in the neighborhood, but heard nothing.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 28, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. This is an usually low-photo post for me. I just haven’t picked up the camera much this week since I’ve been busy painting. What I Spent.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 6, 2019
Recently, I was out with Mr. FG for dinner and I saw a big snickerdoodle cookie at the cash register. I hadn’t had a snickerdoodle in ages, so I decided to give it a try. Friends, let me tell you: It was a crushing disappointment of a cookie.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 15, 2019
Big wins, sudden breakthroughs, and “aha!” ” moments are what we’d all love to experience. But in my experience (ha), those happen really, really rarely. In pretty much every area of my life, progress has happened slowly over time.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 8, 2019
I’m using up pumpkin in my oatmeal. I made a batch of pumpkin muffins on Monday and annoyingly enough, they did not use the whole can. So, I’ve been stirring a few tablespoons of pumpkin into my oatmeal, along with spices like allspice and cloves.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 13, 2019
This has popped up on my menu plan a few times here and there and lots of you have asked for the recipe. But it’s taken me FOREVER to get around to posting it. Sorry ’bout that! This is a soft, slightly sweet white bread.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 13, 2019
It’s been a good Monday morning so far…I worked out, showered, took Sonia to her tutorial, went to Aldi and another store, and did some laundry. And it’s not quite 11:00 am. But I did not write a blog post. So, we’re gonna just have a quick little Five Frugal Things today.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 7, 2019
See Tuesday’s meal for the BLT mention. What I Spent. I didn’t get a Hungry Harvest this week (I’m trying every other week this summer to see if that works out well), and I spent $160 at the grocery store. What We Ate. Saturday. Pizza night! I bought pizza instead of making it.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 25, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. (I I originally found these muffins on All Recipes years ago, and I’m resharing the recipe now with a printable recipe card!).
The Frugal Girl
MAY 30, 2019
In May, my goal was to read a chapter a day, and I think I exceeded that. I finished seven books in May, actually! Four of them (Vinegar Girl, Dept. of Speculation, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, and The House on Mango Street) were pretty short, though, so this sounds more impressive than it is.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 13, 2019
My Hungry Harvest yesterday was mostly vegetables. In fact, I think the only fruit was a bag of large apricots and some kiwifruit. This is fine, but I (and probably a lot of people!) find fruit to be a whole lot easier to eat than vegetables.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 7, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. (I I thought about it for a long time and could not come up with a better title than that. It’ll be what it’ll be.).
The Frugal Girl
MAY 4, 2019
(This is a post I wrote 9 years ago, and I thought it needed to see the light of day again.). Ahh, perfectionism. It almost sounds like a virtue, doesn’t it? In reality, it is such a snare in so many ways, not the least of which is its tendency to render us immobile.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 12, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. I filled out a survey for $20. Remember that TV show I watched so I could complete a paid survey for $200?
The Frugal Girl
JULY 11, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. I modified my niece’s shorts. So this was frugal for her, not me. She ordered a pair of shorts online, and the legs were surprisingly enormous.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 31, 2019
I did my end-of-month numbers round up last week, because I forgot that May actually had one more week. Whoops. I’m just gonna add them into today’s post, with updated numbers. What I Spent. I skipped my Hungry Harvest box this week because I had too much produce to use.
The Frugal Girl
JUNE 3, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. For the last few months, I’ve been taking a photo a day, using prompts from Fat Mum Slim.
The Frugal Girl
JULY 1, 2019
happy that my workout for today is done. I love what working out does for me; I do not love the process. REALLY happy that we are having a cool morning after a serious heat wave last week. feeling great because I had a cool shower.
The Frugal Girl
APRIL 27, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. Oddly enough, until a few years ago, I’d never had a popover, despite having seen them in cookbooks for years.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 24, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. We are mostly finished with school, the weather is warm, and we had watermelon this week. So, basically summer. What I Spent.
The Frugal Girl
MAY 1, 2019
For the last two months, I’ve been taking a photo a day, using lists of prompts from the internet. I enjoy taking photos, and having a daily prompt makes me pick up my camera more often than I otherwise would. And it also makes me take photos of things I otherwise wouldn’t!
The Frugal Girl
APRIL 30, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here. In an issue of Cook’s Country or Cook’s Illustrated (I can’t remember!), I saw that they recommended the Frywall. What’s a Frywall?
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