Guest Post: How To Dress Your Children Without Spending A Small Fortune

By frugalouis On August 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Guest Post by Alyssa Chirco When my first child turned out to be a girl, I was ecstatic.  You might say that the whole “becoming a mother and falling head-over-heels in love with my daughter thing” was the cause of my ecstasy, but I’m pretty sure that there was another factor involved as well. The baby clothes. [...]

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Finally! A Laundry System that works for us!

By frugalouis On August 8, 2011 · 10 Comments

You know the dilemma: the clothes get washed and dried, and then sit there in baskets or piles waiting to be put away. I’ve tried the “one washing day a week,” the “one load per day” and the “wash as needed” routines, and they all left me with the same stack of clean clothes that [...]

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Guest Post: Volunteering with Young Kids

By frugalouis On August 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

Guest Post by Megan Hendershott I grew up in a single-parent home with my mom who had two or three jobs at any given time. My mother worked hard for the money we had; however, it wasn’t always enough. She recently told me stories of her going hungry for two or three days at a [...]

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Save Some Dough: renew your souls

By frugalouis On May 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

These Birkenstock sandals have been with me for probably a decade, through miles and miles of terrain across several states and countries. I’m not kidding; they have been through thick and thin, and I love them! I love the tri-tone browns and the interesting way the pieces are connected. Unfortunately, the company no longer makes [...]

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Chat with Mom: Carol R.

By frugalouis On December 3, 2010 · 1 Comment

In what year were you born? 1933 Where did you grow up? Poplar Bluff, MO, so in the country Did you get any education/specific training after high school? If so, what? Nursing school for three years; earned my RN degree. Where have you lived as an adult? Poplar Bluff area, Fayetteville, Ark., back to Poplar [...]

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Chat With Mom: Ruth B. (my mom!)

By frugalouis On November 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m so excited to start this new series! Awhile back I got the idea to interview my mom with the intent of picking her brain for information you all would find helpful. In the process of talking with one of my readers about this, we brainstormed how great it would be to interview many different [...]

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Running a Frugal Household, part 4: Menu Planning

By frugalouis On October 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

So far we’ve looked into laundry issues and inventorying our freezers, then moved to keeping an inventory of the pantry. In last week’s post I shared how I keep track of our shopping lists. Now it’s time for what some of you might consider a real challenge: menu planning. The year my husband and I [...]

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Running a Frugal Household, part 3: Shopping Lists

By frugalouis On October 21, 2010 · 3 Comments

In part one of this series we talked about some laundry tips and keeping tabs on freezer contents. Part two covered an inventory of the pantry, both for food and non-food items. So what’s next? Considering that we’ve talked about managing food storage a bit, let’s move to keeping track of our shopping lists. Now, [...]

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Running a Frugal Household, Part 2: inventory and label

By frugalouis On October 13, 2010 · 3 Comments

A frugal household is an efficient household, right? Misplacing and needlessly replacing items leads to waste, and we’re all trying to reduce that. In part one of Running a Frugal Household I shared the system we’ve developed for keeping tabs on items in our freezer. We also looked at ways the laundry process runs more [...]

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Running a Frugal Household, Part 1: inventory and label!

By frugalouis On October 7, 2010 · 9 Comments

I’m willing to venture that two top frustrations for homemakers are running out of items and unknowingly buying duplicates. Argh. Add to that simple forgetfulness that is common to us all, and it can be a challenging combination! Having fallen prey to the above irritations, I’ve come up with a few systems around the house [...]

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