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My Grandma was Truly Frugal

By Mrs. Accountability on January 1st, 2010

Grandma and my Mom in 1944

Yesterday I promised to tell you about my frugal Grandma. Grandma was born in 1914 and passed away in 2007. She grew up during lived through the Great Depression which I’m sure affected her lifestyle for her entire life. In her mid-twenties, my Grandma contracted [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Do You Qualify to be -Truly- Frugal?

By Mrs. Accountability on December 31st, 2009

On Sunday one of my fellow bloggers was taken to task by an anonymous commenter, who suggested that the author was not “truly frugal”. Abigail from I Pick Up Pennies defended herself rather admirably in a response post What is a “True” Frugal Blogger?

I thought it would be interesting to have a look [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Do You Wear Pajamas?

By Mrs. Accountability on December 28th, 2009

My hubby got me a pair of pajamas for Christmas. Yes, I know we all agreed to buy each other nothing, but when I found he’d bought me something, I went and bought him a pair of slippers. And I also remembered something I wanted to get for AJ, and I already had bought [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

My Grandma’s Crocheted Easy Square Slippers

By Mrs. Accountability on December 6th, 2009

I decided for Christmas presents I’m going to make our food manager and her little girl matching slippers. I decided to use my Grandma’s pattern. It’s very, very simple. You only need to know how to chain, single crochet, and all you need is a tracing of the foot for which the slipper is [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Homemade Candy Cane Peppermint Ice Cream

By Mrs. Accountability on November 10th, 2009

I love my Donvier Ice Cream Maker so much, it is so handy. I use it, and it’s still halfway frozen when I rinse it out and put it right back into the freezer until the urge strikes me to have ice cream. I’ve been wanting to make this flavor since I made the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Cranberry Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe

By Mrs. Accountability on November 7th, 2009

Bread pudding is a great and frugal way to use stale bread. A couple of years ago at Christmas, one of my coworkers brought in a decadent bread pudding. Prior to that time, I’d never been too fond of bread pudding. Maybe my tastes have changed, or maybe the bread pudding I’ve had prior [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How Much Do You Care About Expiration Dates?

By Mrs. Accountability on November 5th, 2009

One of the hallmarks of being frugal, at least in my opinion, is not caring a great deal about expiration dates. I have known people who will throw away a carton of milk just because the date of expiration has passed by a day or two, when the milk tastes just fine. That’s silly. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

My Idea of a Cheap (and Fun!) Date

By Mrs. Accountability on October 27th, 2009

I have been posting a weekly report on how it’s going with using cash to buy our groceries. Since one of the reasons I am behind on tracking our finances is due to spending Friday out with Mr. A, in lieu of the weekly report, I’m going to share my idea of a fun [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Make Your Own Vanilla

By Mrs. Accountability on October 5th, 2009

If you are visiting from the Festival of Frugality #199 hosted at Yes, I am Cheap, welcome to Out of Debt Again! Thank you for including my post in today’s carnival!

I discovered a couple of years ago that the most popular brand of vanilla, McCormick’s Pure Vanilla Extract contains corn syrup. Ingredients listed: [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I Want a Composting Toilet

By Mrs. Accountability on October 3rd, 2009

I don’t actually want one in my home, I’d like to have one installed into an outhouse. Mr. A and I have talked about building an outhouse before. The other night he was saying he needed to get around to putting in that outdoors toilet. I again reiterated to him that I wanted him [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]