The My Frugal Home Forum

Bev, my husband has idiopathic peripheral neuropathy and sometimes has leg and foot cramps. Drinking diet tonic water helps with that. When that condition is acting up, he has a couple of glasses a day.

LWolfT, you'd best burn some sage and mutter some incantations to get Murphy to move along at your house! :-D We are Day Two of waiting for the emergency plumber to show up. At least DH got the hot water in the hallway bathtub slowed to a trickle and everyone can shower in the master bath. This morn...

I am starting to think there is a curse on our house. And we thought things were improving when the Uber Redneck family across the street finally moved out and everyone's property values went up!

Jackie, little cats always leave a big empty place in the house. (((HUGS))) My day sort of got derailed. Homeless Buddy is getting very few hours at his job and so we fired up the job search machine for him this morning and put in applications at six places. I have my hopes up about one as the cook ...

My dad's final effects included two metal Band-Aid boxes filled with wheat pennies and buffalo nickles. When my mom died, I divided them evenly between myself and my brother. They weren't collector quality, but when we were broke and needed to replace our washing machine, my husband took the box to ...

Good morning, frugal friends. I woke up at 7:30 and got up about 15 minutes later. For once it is not raining, although it's getting cloudy out there. I am having coffee in the living room with the two younger dogs. Today I need to make a quick trip to Food Lion for a few things. Also have routine c...