Category: The Frugal Girl

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! […]

We all got an email this week alerting us to an upcoming 10% hike on cafeteria food, across the board. Sooo, it just got a little extra motivating to be a lunch-packer! 🙂 What I Spent I spent: $35 at Safeway $99.92 at Aldi $9 at Giant So, $148, which is a lot more than […]

This week, I am thankful: that we did get some rain Mannn, it’s been so dry here, even the weeds have been wilting. That’s how you know it’s bad. But we did get a nice little thunderstorm a few days ago, and even better, it was followed by some slow, steady rain. Excellent. that my […]

Y’all! I have seen several articles recently about how the latest trend is to have bare fingernails. (For example, click here.) The good news here is that for once in my life, I am up on a trend! I have basically always had short, bare fingernails. Part of the reason: I’ve been playing the piano […]

All of my things are tiny this week. 🙂 1. I put my white shirt in the sunshine My white American Giant tee had a few faint stains on the front that I figured were probably food-based. So, I put the shirt in the sun for a few hours, and now all is well. Sunshine […]

Recently, this is a question I have been asking myself, because…I don’t really have one! I mean, I have fixed expenses (rent, for example), and I have a vague idea of how much I want to spend on groceries. But other than that, I generally am operating on a spend-as-minimally-as-possible plan, which is not really […]