There’s some kind of cold virus going around and my son AJ brought it home, gave it to his big brother and then I caught it. It was the middle of the night and I couldn’t sleep… and I turned on the television just to see what was on. I don’t watch much television [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

It was 1991.  Mr. A and I had been married four years, but things weren’t going well.  In fact, things were really awful.   We bought our first home not too long after we were married, and within six months our first child was born.  A month later, Mr. A was laid off from his [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

A few months ago, I did something I consider to be quite unfrugal.  I do that every once in awhile and debate sharing my True Confessions here at the blog.

So here’s the scoop: I bought a Groupon coupon to a spa – the True Rest Float Spa to be exact.  The reason [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Revanche at A Gai Shan Life wrote about Generational Poverty last Monday and I just got around to reading it when Funny About Money linked to in Another Rainy Day Roundup on Saturday.

As I read the title, I thought to myself… so that’s what it’s called… generational poverty.  Both my husband and I [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Today’s True Confession is about computer backups.  We all know to do them, but how dedicated are you to keeping your data backed up?    I’ll go first.  I suck at doing routine backups. That’s one reason why I decided to sign on with Carbonite.

However, as it turns out, I excel so highly [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

This is one of those things that happened and like dominoes just kept getting worse and worse.

First Mistake – Never Sign Up in the First Place

A couple of years ago, I signed up with Columbia House to earn some MyPoints. When I was a stay at home mom living below poverty level, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Thanks to everyone who voted, that was fun. I hope you got a little chuckle out of my Valentine’s Day post.

Mr. A told me the story of what happened, and it wasn’t quite that way, but while he was telling me we started thinking of how funny it would be if the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Recently I got several comments to the post where I hosted the 206th Festival of Frugality.  They were so over the top, I just had to share them with you all today.

Substantially, the post is really the greatest on this deserving topic. I agree with your conclusions and will thirstily look forward to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]