Frugal Freedom

I started this post back in March.  I need to update it again. ---------------------- Let's take a look at my financial freedom/semi...

It was and dark foggy morning.  Despite leaving early for work, the extra traffic from the eerie fog added another 10 minutes to my trip.  I...

Wowza.  This is an expensive month.  Monday morning I got a call from the auto shop.  Turns out running over the rake didn't do any dama...

Woo-Hoo!  It's my favorite day of the month.  Mortgage update day!  This month I put an extra $1,100 towards the principal which bring...

I'm not spending any more money this month...well, except for the HVAC guy to come out and shut down the swamp cooler and start up the f...

Rough weekend.  It started on Friday when I came home to find the dogs had pulled out the plastic liner on my bed cover.  It was hanging out...

I finally submitted my taxes. I am a horrible procrastinator when it comes to taxes. I used TaxAct but I couldn't keep track of all of...

I have noticed my spending habits slowly increasing over the past few weeks. A few extra things at the grocery store, 6 songs from Amazon, ...

The day started off well. I got up early, fed the dogs, picked up the yard, washed the rug and bedspread, swept the floor, all before 8. I...

It's kinda small but I think you can still read it. My next step is to save for these categories. They are just a few items that I wan...

I made it through another Monday. The boss was there and was in a good mood so that was good. I didn't bring my little dog to work bec...

I usually don't skip a day without a post but when I tried to log in yesterday it said Blogger.com was down for maintenance. Since I was...

This is my newest dog. I posted her picture before but now she is more relaxed. I've had her for about 2 weeks and I have resisted the u...

I was dreading the dentist today especially since I remembered that I cancelled my dental insurance. I seem to remember that the cost was go...

It was a nice quiet day at work today. I started to clean off my desk but then I didn't want it to look TOO clean. The people who were t...

So, it wasn't a mid-week dog return, it was a beginning of the week dog return. I think it was only 9 o'clock when I was told the pe...

I would just like to say that doing my taxes online on a tiny netbook is horrible. Next year I have got to have a better set up. My old de...

Oh no, I've managed to stay up too late and the morning is going to come way too soon. Nothing much to report. The tiling is working i...

I seem to be really bad at home repair estimates. For one thing, it didn't dawn on me at the beginning that the house would need paint. ...

Ugh...another annoying day at work. It was annoying enough to make me think about quitting today. I could take all of the money in my bank a...