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 […]
Can Money Buy Happiness? A Broke Person’s View
It’s a common enough refrain: money can’t buy you happiness. The general idea behind the phrase is that the things in life that cause happiness are not things so much as experiences or emotions. Money can’t buy you more time with a grandparent. Money can’t buy you late nights with best friends. Money can’t buy love, and […]
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.
A Frugal Meal, Italian Style
Continuing my quest to become a better adult through cooking, this week I made a very simple but delicious pasta dish. Once again my boyfriend and I stood together in the kitchen and asked that eternal question: ‘so…what do you feel like eating?’ My modus operandi has become this: look around the kitchen and try 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 […]
I’m on Twitter so Come Follow Me!
I’m taking some time from my non-profiting to make just a quick note today- I’m on Twitter! You can see on my handy dandy side bar the Twitter logo. Click that and it’ll take you to my new page. @frugaltofree is where I’m at and I’d love to connect with everyone reading this. Feel free […]
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: […]