Category: The Frugal Girl

I found a message in my Instagram DMs asking for a post about the small kitchen appliances that I use. I don’t think I’ve written about this before, so let’s run through them. It’ll be a fairly short tour because I lean slightly to the minimalist side, and I don’t usually buy unitaskers. I’m going […]

What I Spent I spent: $66 at Aldi $8 at Safeway $36 at Giant (where I got my meat markdowns!) So, $110. What We Ate Saturday I had one of those work shifts that went so sideways, I didn’t take my “lunch” break until close to 5 pm! So, I wasn’t hungry for dinner when […]

Hello, hello! We’re gonna take a little tour through some randomness from my brain. 😉 I don’t get a spring break I realized that the eight-week class schedule does not have any room for a spring break. BOO. So, my first spring class ends this coming Sunday, and the next class starts on Monday. However, […]

1. I activated my monthly Safeway student discount This discount shows up as a “coupon” that you have to clip in the app each month. And yesterday, before I stopped in for a rotisserie chicken, I remembered to clip it! Every 5% helps, you know? 😉 As long as I’m suffering through discussion posts and […]

1. I used leftover cherry “juice” I finished a jar of cherries from Aldi, but saved the colorful syrup, which is not at all syrupy. It’s more like a juice; very different from what comes in, say, canned peaches in syrup. Anyway, I used it to make some of the three-ingredient chia seed drink I […]

I started February with an excess of fun money because I only spent $36 at Ikea last month. So, my fun money balance was $164 on February 1st. How did I spend it? Here’s the breakdown. JBL portable speaker: $59.99 Ever since I moved here, I have thought that it would be nice to have […]

What I Spent I spent: $70 at Aldi $11 at Safeway $30 on a Hungry Harvest box So, $111, which is oddly satisfying. And I maintained my rather unintentional no-food-out streak, which I will probably break tonight! What We Ate Saturday This was the use-it-up meal I mentioned on Tuesday: the last of the box […]

This week, I am thankful: that we can get Zoe’s windshield fixed for free Her windshield has a crack spanning the whole windshield, and it seems to have been started by a single ding, perhaps from a rock. Luckily, this is not my first rodeo with cracked windshields, and I knew we had full, no-deductible […]

annoyed that I completely forgot to buy bread yesterday when I went to Aldi. Sigh. anticipating the start of daylight saving time. It’s a week from Sunday! trying to type and see my monitor around a cat. I got this plexiglass thing to go over my keyboard so she would stop stepping on it. But […]

1. I’m using my frozen fruit Before I went skiing, I was in kind of a hurry to clear out the fridge, and as a result, I threw a whole package of blueberries and a bag of cherries in the freezer. I’ve been using the blueberries in pancakes (OF COURSE), and this week I’ve been […]