Paying off all my student loan debt was the best thing I have ever done for myself and my finances. It’s made everything better. Becoming debt free doesn’t mean suddenly becoming wealthy though, or even financially stable. While not having to make a debt payment each month does mean ownership of my money I am still […]
Personal Finance
Free is All Around Us: Finding Free Fitness Classes
Night swimming! The last two weeks I’ve been making a serious effort to get out of my house and experience my city. I’m a homebody for sure and sometimes it can be hard to roust myself from my house. Austin is a great town and since I plan on moving away some day I want to […]
Get Out Of Debt Now, For Your Future Self’s Sake
When you’re carrying debt, sometimes it feels like you’re standing at the bottom of a hole, just looking up. Your debt has built up all around you and you feel stuck, unable to get out. Even though I have successfully climbed my debt mountain, I still talk about debt all the time. I mean, it’s all […]
Staying Frugal When You Celebrate
July is a month full of celebration for me. The month kicks off with Jubilation Week, a whole week of fun that my roommates and I made up. That includes the anniversary of us living together, the 4th of July and a birthday. Today is actually another roommates birthday and next week is yet another […]
How It Feels to Not Have A Debt Payment
This month marks the first time in four years that I haven’t had to make a student loan payment. KaraKara Perez is the original founder of From Frugal To Free. She is a money expert, speaker and founder of Bravely Go, a feminist financial education company. Her work has been featured on NPR, Business Insider, Forbes, and […]
I Broke My Clothes Shopping Ban
Last week I bought my first clothes items of the year! As I’ve talked about before, I hate shopping. I was planning on going the whole year without any clothes shopping but that plan has changed. Turns out I have approximately zero clothes that are really appropriate for a work setting. So now I’m on a […]
A Frugal and Fun Jubilation Week!
My faceless friends at our backyard birthday party This past week was the second year anniversary of my moving in to my current house and with my friends, one of my roommates birthday’s AND the fourth of July. We have a lot to celebrate in my house during this week each year. So my friends and I, being […]
Why Blogging is My Jam
The first thing I ever wanted to be was a writer. I filled notebooks with short stories or character descriptions or drawings of the fantasy worlds I was creating in my head. I was dead set on being a writer as a grown up. I got a little sidetracked over the years with other ambitions: […]
A Frugal Meal On The Grill (Sort Of)
I’m straight killing it in the kitchen these days! I certainly still don’t consider myself a cooking aficionado but I have cooked twice in the past week, so…maybe I AM an aficionado. All my meals have been wonderfully frugal too. I’m focusing on using what I already have in my house to create meals these […]
Stupid Things I have Done to Save Money
I like to consider myself a savvy frugal person but, I can admit it’s been a long road to get here. I have made lots of weird decisions with my spending money, no doubt about it. I think I’ve made even weirder (and dumber) decisions to try and save money. I thought I’d make a […]