Category: The Frugal Girl

What I Spent I spent: $48 at Safeway $99 at Aldi That makes $147 for me, which is not as much as I was anticipating! Ohhh, but wait. I also spent $40 on a dinner with a friend. Good thing I spent so little last week. 😉 What We Ate Saturday This was the night […]

This week, I am thankful: that I got to do my first nursing volunteer job Brittany and I have big plans for volunteering as nurses (like, we might join a Mercy Ship down the road), but we started small with our first volunteer gig: a community health clinic where we gave vaccines (free of charge). […]

WilliamB proposed this as a question for discussion: What would you do differently if you had ten million dollars? And the sub-questions are: what frugal things would you keep doing, and what would you stop doing? There are a lot of things I would not change. For instance, I wouldn’t buy a new car, because […]

1. I roasted my squishable beets I am sorry to say that two large beets sat, forgotten, at the back of my fridge until they became so dry that they were squishy. They felt almost like one of those foam toys that kids love (you know, the one shaped like food). Luckily, the beets were […]

I don’t think I have done a freezer challenge since I left my old house, so it’s been over four years! No, wait…I looked back, and I did one in July of 2023. a freezer challenge photo from my old house So…it’s been three years. Both my kitchen freezer and my chest freezer could use […]

What I Spent I spent: $19 at Safeway $14 on a poke bowl That makes $33 for me. And it probably means an expensive week is coming. Ha. What We Ate Saturday I worked, and I packed rice, chicken, and peppers, plus a cucumber salad, grapes, and popped chips. I ate a bowl of yogurt […]

This week, I am thankful: for the green that is all around us I do not appreciate summer air, as you well know, but I am trying to remember to look at and appreciate all the green that is here right now. that I worked on the most miserably hot day this week We’ve had […]

Just a few short things because I’m running behind today! A reader (I think Kristin from Going Country?) recommended I try Joe’s O’s from Trader Joe’s for one of my post-shift cereals, so I did. I was impressed by the shape of the O’s; it was more reminiscent of a true Cheerios shape than most […]

1. I listed my Call the Midwife books for sale They’re originally an eBay purchase, and while I’ve been done reading them for a while, I have not gotten around to listing them for sale! They’re up on eBay now, so hopefully they will be on their way to a new home soon. I loved […]

I’m catching up on reader questions again today. Let’s go! Do you plant your onion ends in dirt or let them sprout in water? I’ve never had much success planting the ends either way. They rot on me. I’d love some hints to make them work. I do a hybrid method; I usually stick the […]