Category: The Frugal Girl

This post may contain affiliate links, which earn money for this site. Disclosure here. To all who celebrate, I wish you a lovely day! (and I also wish you a lovely day if you don’t celebrate Christmas!)   If it’s a hard day this year (and there are many reasons this can be true), I’m […]

We’re gonna go with stream of consciousness today! First, thank you so much to all of you for celebrating with me about my new car. It is so sweet of you all to be enthusiastically happy for me; you all made me smile. Thank you for sharing in my joy! I forgot to mention in […]

You guys, I did it! I bought my Honda Civic. 🙂 Isn’t she beautiful?? I can hardly believe I finally own one.  fresh outta the dealership I haven’t bought a vehicle for myself since 2012. And I haven’t driven anything other than a minivan since 2003. Sooooo, this car feels pretty dang fancy to me! […]

This post may contain affiliate links, which earn money for this site. Disclosure here. I don’t have a post for today, but this is just to say that I’m fine!   I’ve just been busy with work and holiday stuff and also one other thing that I will tell you about tomorrow. 😉  My college […]

What I Spent I wasn’t in the kitchen much this week because I was busy catching up on social plans! proof of SOME kitchen activity This week, I spent: $20 with Zoe on subs $20 on Wednesday with a friend  $20 on Thursday with a friend $19 at Trader Joe’s  So, $79.  What We Ate  Saturday […]

This week, I am thankful: for the snow We got a few inches of snow this past weekend and oooooh, my snow-loving heart was happy. I went out for a walk it in and appreciated all the ways a coating of snow makes a winter world so much more beautiful. Also: after I got back […]

I got put on call for four hours Monday morning, so I used some of the time to catch up on my horrifyingly full email inbox. Ha. In it, I read this quote from James Clear. “You have to run your own race. Problems begin the moment you start comparing your results to someone who […]

1. I got a free Pyrex container Someone on my Buy Nothing group listed a Pyrex container so I said, yes please! I love the rectangular ones, especially this size. They’re perfect for meal prepping, and now I will have three. That’s ideal because the max number of days I work in a row is […]

As a nurse on a med-surg unit, I encounter and take care of wounds every day, some of them shocking in severity. (I will say no more!) But as a human being in possession of skin, you probably also encounter small wounds, scrapes, and cuts on the regular. And if you are a parent, this […]

What I Spent I spent: $72 at Aldi $20 at Domino’s So, $92.  What We Ate Saturday I worked all day, and I am unsure of what I had to eat when I got home! I have a picture of me after the shift but no food appears in the frame. Hmmm.  Sunday I made some […]