Category: The Frugal Girl

This has nothing to do with food, but look, I put stickers on my new clipboard for work: The Snoopy sticker immediately identifies this as mine. 😉 What I Spent I spent: $48 at Aldi $22 at Giant So, $70. What We Ate Saturday It was the 4th of July, but I had tons of […]

This week, I am thankful: that today is my last residency meeting I am thrilled about this! All we have is a little graduation meeting next month, and then I’m truly done with nursing residency. Woohoo! the first day of residency, last August that I am nearly done with my class overlap On July 12th, […]

I often do not get into the comments as much as I’d like, especially when I’m working several days in a row (I feel it would be in poor taste to be chatting with you all during a hospital shift!). Soo, here’s a collection of questions I missed, along with my answers. Kristen, will you […]

1. I picked wineberries These are basically a weed, which means they grow without me doing a thing, and there are quite a few of them in the backyard here. featuring one random volunteer blackberry Wineberries are a little like raspberries, but more tart, and more sticky on the outside. We know I’m not about […]

Reader Becca remembered this, and I didn’t: my blog’s birthday is July 4th. (This is a sign of how fried my brain currently is, I think.) And this is a rather momentous birthday! If I’m counting right, my little ol’ blog turned eighteen this year. On the 4th of July in 2008, I made a […]

Very random, I know, but I want to give a little shoutout to whoever left all the colorful kettlebells lined up so nicely at the gym. What I Spent I spent: $24 at Safeway $65 at Aldi $8 at Giant $30 on a Hungry Harvest box So, $127. What We Ate Saturday Chicken quesadillas 🙂 […]

This week, I am thankful: for the joy of a cold shower I struggle to get through outdoor walks in the summer (so muggy! so sticky! even early in the morning!), but ohhhhhhh, a cold shower feels so good afterward. for the blast of cold A/C After I finish working out at the gym (which […]

We’re having some randomness today, starting off with a little “boo! hiss!” from me. My classes are overlapping I opened up Blackboard on Sunday and had a dismaying realization: my summer classes overlap for two weeks. BOO! HISS! I’ve never taken summer classes before, and it didn’t occur to me that summer holds fewer than […]

1. I cleaned the hair out of my robot vacuum Long hair can easily get wrapped around the rollers of any vacuum, and robot versions are no exception. I’ve heard and read that this is a common culprit when a vacuum malfunctions, so I try to regularly flip mine over and remove the hair. Luckily, […]

Back when Freecycle was a thing, they had a policy saying that you are not supposed to resell an item you pick up from Freecycle. And Buy Nothing groups have the same rule in place, mainly to keep people from joining the groups merely to get inventory for selling. Zoe still uses this freecycle nightstand! […]