The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
I’m 47, married, and living amongst the cornfields in a college town in the Midwest U.S. I’ve been an architect, day-care teacher to toddlers, and library clerk, but am currently a SAHM to a 14yo son and 9yo daughter. After I had kids, I swapped that time to growing all sorts of interesting heirloom foods in my backyard.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 10, 2014
I like travel, I feel it’s important to set money aside for retirement and my son’s college education, and I like charitable giving. But I also have bills to pay and it’s important to buy healthy foods for my family to eat. An automatic contribution is made monthly to the local food bank, and I tithe.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 30, 2013
I have emergency supplies in the car, including blankets, food, flares, and First Aid. Whenever I travel, I also take water (the result of an unfortunate stranded-in-the-desert incident during college). My son knows that there are two meeting points out (depending on whether he leaves out the front or out the back) in our neighborhood.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 22, 2024
I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support).
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
My degree is in mechanical engineering, but I’m just starting a transition to nursing – before I got pregnant with my son, I was working as a nursing assistant while my husband finished grad school, and planning to go on to nursing school. For me, being in the kitchen and making food for people is an act of love.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
I had been at my previous job for 17 years (straight out of college) and it had turned into a very toxic situation. My son has a job at a local pizza place and he gets a free meal after every shift. Fancy restaurant food. My younger son and I have been volunteering there lately and the need seems to be growing more and more.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 11, 2011
This is how I put two kids through college and raised a family. Prestige may come with a big salary but prestige alone has never put food on the table.&#. You work in an office son, and you will be sitting on your you know what all day probably for the rest of your career. I don’t care. My work is my exercise.
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