Author: cheaplify

I personally find my Five Frugal Things posts more fun when I do something visual like a repair, or a rehab. Same goes for when I cook something, or get an interesting item for free. Shoegoo does come in black! But sometimes, frugality does involve doing the unaesthetic personal finance stuff, that kind that produces […]

My fun-money report is a little brief this month, so we’re just rolling it into a miscellany post this time. I bought a lamp with my fun money Objectively, I do not need another lamp. Please see here. and here. and here. and here. part of my fun money purchases last fall! and here. And […]

The view to my side as I type this post: What I Spent This week, I spent: $101 at Aldi $18 at Safeway And that’s $119 for me for the week. What We Ate Saturday I used a Panera gift card to get some sandwiches for Zoe and me. 🙂 A free meal + no […]

This week, I am thankful: that I am finished with shifts for the week My goodness, the shifts I worked over the last three days were really…something. Obviously, I can’t tell you about it all, but woo, I am exhausted. Normally, when I work three days in a row, I’m in a pretty good groove […]

The question mark is because I doubt I’m gonna get to five. One reason: I don’t know if I have enough material. I’m gonna be scraping the bottom of the barrel here! Another reason: I’m typing this up super quick before a work shift, so I might run out of time. But I at least […]

tired My dear neighbors volunteered to help me clear out my rather long driveway, and we also cleared out the hardened, iced-down snow that the plows left at the edges of my driveway. I’m glad it’s done now, but my GOODNESS, it was so much work. The thick layer of ice on top of the […]

Don’t worry: Snoopy is prepared for this cold snap What I Spent It was an odd-feeling week on the food front! That’s partly because of the snow and partly because I volunteered to move my shifts around to help with staffing, so I was flying by the seat of my pants a bit. I spent: […]

You guys. When I heard the snow was going to be followed by a few hours of freezing rain/sleet, I was SO SURE my power was going to go off. I thought everything was going to stick to the trees and the power lines, which would have been an almost guaranteed power outage. But nothing […]

There are people in our world who hold a belief that astounds me. It goes something like this: “If someone is doing a paid service for me, I shouldn’t have to say thank you to that person. They are just doing their job.” I have heard people say this in real life, and I’ve also […]

1. I got a $3 Starbucks drink On my way to do some fun money spending (I promise a report!), I decided to splurge a little and buy a coffee instead of bringing one from home. But this ended up not being much of a splurge because when I opened the app, I found a […]