frugal living

Frugal Food Life: How to save money on big family eats

This post contains affiliate links. Samesies. Anna is a beautiful, handier, version of me who happens to have nice things. Otherwise, samesies. She blogs at In Honor of Design. Anna posted some tips for saving money on food for a big family, and I wanted to jump in and offer our suggestions as well. Although […]

Notes from the Side of the Road

A couple weeks ago, we took a family trip to Menards.  (Some people go to Disneyworld, other people go to the Black Hills, we go to Menards.  Happy summer!!!)  On our way, we saw a van on the side of the road with some people milling around.  We stopped to ask if they needed anything, […]

Saving $$$ at the Library

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We used to only belong to a little local library. While it is adorable the selection is small, and inter-library-loans are a paid service there.  So, we opted to get a library card in the bigger city library system a little ways away. I think it was $90 for a year?  I agonized over spending […]