We’ve been kind of lazy parents. When it came time to get Liam started on solids, we reached for the Gerber instead of the Vitamix. It’s pretty easy to get caught up in the convenience, but homemade baby food isn’t all that tough to figure out. This isn’t to say we haven’t had our misses. [...]
Filed under: Food, Frugal Living, Liam on November 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve spent all week doing really extensive work on our little garden. Last year, we grew about 9 quarts of strawberries and more tomatoes than we knew what to do with. (Who am I kidding? I ate ‘em with a little salt and made tons of fresh pasta sauce.) We kind of let the garden [...]
Filed under: Frugal Living, Gardening, Homeownership, Pictures on May 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
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Filed under: Frugal Living, Liam, Life, Shauna, Work on March 25th, 2009 | Enter your password to view comments
Today marks an important personal milestone for my wife and me. As of this afternoon, all of our credit cards are carrying a zero balance. The only debts we have now are our mortgage and a bedroom set from RC Willey on which we pay no interest. This means that Shauna doesn't have to work [...]
Filed under: Frugal Living on December 19th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There have been precious few times where a political issue has had me absolutely infuriated with white hot rage. Among these are the deployment of troops to Iraq in 2003 and the unnecessary tax increases in Nevada during that same year. All of the recent maneuvering around this bailout of failing banks similarly has [...]
Filed under: Frugal Living, Homeownership, Politics, Rants on September 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We've been terrible at socializing over the last couple of months. We missed parties, we don't call or e-mail and we even skipped our normal New Year's Eve gala this year. You can probably guess some of the more obvious reasons why we've been holed up in our house or otherwise unavailable: the trip to [...]
Filed under: Church, Frugal Living, Life, Shauna on January 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
For quite some time now, we've been using a pretty ghetto vacuum cleaner. I picked it up about 6-7 years ago when I first moved out and it's since followed me through 5 dwellings and getting married. It's been on its last legs for some time: Annabelle did a "great" job of destroying all of [...]
Filed under: Frugal Living, Homeownership on October 14th, 2007 | 9 Comments »
How can I be expected to continue responsibly toward my goal of debt-free living when pieces of my shoddy counter top are falling off in CHUNKS on my toes while I do dishes?
Filed under: Frugal Living, Homeownership, Life, Pictures, Tender Lumplings on July 28th, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Yesterday was shopping day, our fridge looking about as empty and pathetic as a fridge can. While out, we ran across a peach of a deal: Ball Park all-beef hot dogs for a dollar a package. We decided to stock up on them since we've been thinking about having a BBQ this summer and hot [...]
Filed under: Food, Frugal Living, Tender Lumplings on June 17th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Continue to bitch about gas prices while bending over and taking it.
Reduce the amount of gas that we use.
I'm not saying gas prices don't annoy me. They totally do. But if I get one more email about how all we need to do is stop buying gas from certain companies or on certain days, I'm [...]
Filed under: Frugal Living, Rants on June 1st, 2007 | 17 Comments »
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