The My Frugal Home Forum

Jackie, I hope everything will be okay with your son. Will be keeping him and all of you in my prayers.

Hi, frugal friends. I have been busy this morning, doing chores and applying online for jobs for me. Our homeless shelter buddy has a job interview at Chili's next week, which is awesome. He's gone from us looking for hospice placement at the end of the summer to getting well enough now to seek work...

Good afternoon, frugal ones. I am doing laundry today. It's gloomy but not raining and almost warmish. Our homeless buddy did lose his place at the church shelter after all and has been couch surfing with my family for the past week. He's excellent company and the dogs love him. He arrived with a si...

Rinty, I am so sorry. We can all feel your despair. Please be sure to take time to take care of yourself. *hugs*

Good afternoon, frugal friends. It's another cold and rainy day here. I gave the dogs a bath with some new super moisturizing shampoo (they have had dry skin) that was not expensive and found a little flea on Goldie's tail. I suspect Ollie Cat picked up some fleas on his overnight adventure outside ...

Cheap is when one's pennypinching impacts others negatively, and I don't think anything we do does that. Since I haven't been able to find work, we have been kicking the frugal up to black belt level. Cut pet expenses and grocery costs by one third each, been using up goods on hand to make gifts, co...