Frugality

Today I needed to go to the next town over to pick up a list of landlords for us to call. While I was out I stopped at some garage sales. My best deal was a compound hunting bow for Stephen. He said one similar […]

Life has been interesting on the home-buying front, well, on the money front in general. I spent 45 minutes this morning on the phone trying to get us pre-qualified to buy a house here. I was not too thrilled at what I found out. When

Every year, on Mother’s Day weekend, the town of Williamsport holds a town-wide garage sale. Their advertisement in the paper stated that last year they had over 70 families participating, so Stephen and I decided to go. My grandmother even gave us cash instead of

So many trees are starting to bloom here. Our Bradford Pears out front are blooming, the forsythia are blooming, and much to my suprise, my daffodils bloomed. We transplanted them from the front of the house where they never bloomed to out front in our

Just got done balancing my checkbooks. For years now, we’ve kept our records on the computer using Crown Financial Ministries’ Money Matters Software. It has been a lifesaver! Before we started using it (and well before I had learned anything by way of frugality), it

Did you know you can freeze celery? I didn’t. A friend of mine mentioned it to me the other day. She said she freezes celery when she buys it because it goes bad before she can use it all. It goes bad here too –

…can put holes in your laundry! Right before we went to bed last night we threw in a load of diapers to wash. I don’t know what Stephen put in the washer, but I did smell bleach. No big deal. So today I took them