Category: The Frugal Girl

Happy Friday, everyone! My slightly controversial take for today is that chicken is better than steak. Please see my comments on Sunday’s meal. 😉 Broiled chicken ready for butter chicken sauce What I Spent I spent: So, $80 this week. 🙂 What We Ate Saturday Zoe wasn’t here, so I cobbled together a dish using […]

I woke up this morning, thinking I had already scheduled this post to be published and I have only just now realized my error. Ha. Sooo, we’re getting a late start, but better late than never. This week, I am thankful: that I was able to work ahead pretty far The individual workload for this […]

Boy, it’s been a minute since I did one of these! The last time I wrote a report was in early February, as a report on January’s spending. So, I guess it’s been almost four months. One of my January fun money purchases I only spent $36 of my fun money in January, leaving me […]

1. I’m using my sun-dried tomato oil (a tiny frugal thing!) I get my sun-dried tomatoes from Aldi (of course), and I went through my last jar pretty quickly from making Marry Me Chickpeas. Since the oil is nicely flavored from the tomatoes, I saved it to use when making fried eggs. 2. I washed […]

It’s Memorial Day here in the U.S., which means lots of people aren’t visiting their usual internet haunts. It’s been a rainy holiday weekend here, but we needed the rain! I thought about just not posting, but then decided it seemed like a good, quiet day to do a little miscellany post. Should you wear […]

It’s kind of ridiculous how often I do not even realize that my meals had a theme until I sit down and write this post. This time around it was green salads with chicken. Apparently, that’s about all I knew how to eat this week. 😉 What I Spent I spent: $75 at Aldi $21 […]

This week, I am thankful: for all the encouragement you guys offered to me By the time I publish a post like Monday’s, I have calmed down from the initial writing, and then I always feel slightly silly for publishing it. But I’m glad I did, both because you all encouraged me, and because some […]

You guys. Apparently, there is a notion going around on social media (TikTok, I hear!) that says we all need to replace our underwear every six months. Like…throwing out the “old” ones and buying a whole new set. When I heard this, I was like…”What???” Because I have never in my life come even close […]

It’s me. I’m the crappy mender. 1. I hand-sewed a potholder This terry cloth potholder came with some very wide stitches, and unsurprisingly, they started to come out not long after I bought it. The potholder is really too thick to fit in my sewing machine, so I hand-sewed it, which was also a little […]

(Usually, I write about this kind of thing on my Patreon, but this one is money-related, so I’m gonna keep it here. I’m being a little vulnerable because I hope it will help someone else.) I’m starting this draft on a day when I looked at my hospital 403b plan (basically a non-profit version of […]