Category: The Frugal Girl

This is exciting! We haven’t had a Meet a Reader submission in quite some time, so when Kate sent me hers this week, I said, “Oh yay!” Here’s Kate: 1. Tell us a little about yourself I’m Kate, 44, I live in Upstate New York with my dog. I’ll have another dog, but I’ll never […]

1. I put my ripe avocados in the fridge You know how avocados are perfectly ripe for about 33 minutes before they go bad? Well, I had a bunch from my Hungry Harvest box, and I managed to notice that mine were all at the perfect ripeness stage simultaneously. So, I stashed them in the […]

The other day, a reader left this comment: One of the challenges of shift work, especially shift work with no regularity, is eating well and frugally. I’ve always found this difficult and no doubt many people struggle with this. So often I would swing from exhausted to rested….it got tricky to plan ahead. I’d be […]

The other day, a reader left this comment: One of the challenges of shift work, especially shift work with no regularity, is eating well and frugally. I’ve always found this difficult and no doubt many people struggle with this. So often I would swing from exhausted to rested….it got tricky to plan ahead. I’d be […]

What I Spent It was another weird week of very little cooking!  I spent: $24 at Safeway $30 on a Hungry Harvest box $16 at Royal Farms $24 on fast food So, $94 which is not too shabby for a kitchen-mostly-closed week. And I DID cook all my breakfasts and pack all of my work lunches, so […]

Hello, everyone! I’m back in non-hospital world again, and it’s nice to be here! I worked all but two of the last eight days, so my regular world life has been a little neglected.  (This would not be true if my shifts were shorter, but 12-13 hour days mean that I do basically nothing else […]

Warning: this will be a rather navel-gazing kind of post and I’m not even going to pretend otherwise. Proceed at your own risk. 😉  The other day as I was driving to work, I was thinking about what a dizzying year this has been! I finished nursing school. I had to commemorate the last day […]

1. I got free food on Christmas I packed my lunch (as usual!) for my Christmas Day shift. But when I got to work, my co-workers let me know that employees could get $10 worth of free food in the cafeteria (a kindness to those of us who had to work!) I was not about […]

I jotted this question down in a post draft a while back, and I have no notes about where I heard this question. I’m guessing it was on a podcast? But…I thought it would be a helpful question to throw out there at this time of year, when we traditionally think about what we want […]

This post may contain affiliate links, which earn money for this site. Disclosure here. I’m writing this post on Christmas night, after a work shift, and I have 26 minutes before I’m supposed to be in bed. And I still have to shower! Sooo, I’m gonna speed run this post. Let’s go! What I Spent […]