I read a lot about differentiating between wants and needs when it comes to healthy personal finance and frugality. I read about being happy with what you have instead of longing for more. I agree with it. As an overall direction in my life, it’s one I follow.
I look at my life and things that [...]
I was delighted to return home last week and see that my new avocado tree had two big shiny avocados on it!
I picked them and am letting them ripen inside before the critters eat them. I would be really sad if that happened.
Don’t they look yummy? They better be yummy. The tree cost [...]
I spend time thinking about frugal - what it is, how it gets acted out, how it makes me feel, why I am. I usually feel really good about it until someone comes along and is, you know, one of those people that wants to make everyone else around them feel bad for being who [...]
I went for a run the other day - my first time in what feels like a while. Months probably. Set aside for surgery, illness, recovery and then just pure lack of motivation, it felt good to lace up my running shoes and take off down the road.
I started running when I was 14, encouraged [...]
I went grocery shopping with my mom yesterday at Price Chopper and then we went and filled up the gas tank with gasoline and she saved $2.20/gallon off her gasoline! How? By using the Fuel AdvantEdge program. For every $50 you spend at Price Chopper, you save 10 cents/gallon off your gasoline at participating [...]
