A Personal Finance Blog
Inflation is currently at 8%, and it’s hitting us all right in the groceries — and sending us searching for ways to keep a frugal kitchen. Take a look at my must-have kitchen gear that enables me to keep my food costs down. 1. Stove-top espresso pot Frugal rationale: Espresso at home without a $2,000
Oh, New York, where kitchens are the size of airplane lavatories and ovens are used for sweater storage. How does one eat real food living in this city? If you’re reading this, I imagine that you have actually turned your oven on at some point. I’ve seriously met people here who haven’t. Setting aside those
Do you feel pressured to do something perfectly? Do you feel like “they” expect you to do everything to its fullest extent or most extreme manifestation (even if you secretly don’t know who the ever loving hell “they” are)? Are you **cough, cough** perhaps putting that pressure on yourself? If not, then feel free to
As I sit down and write this I’m in my comfy, mostly-unpacked Brooklyn living room. My three-year-old son is napping. And my husband is working from home in the bedroom. It’s Friday afternoon. I’ve got Sex in the City on in the background (I guess I’m feeling nostalgic) and laundry drying on a clotheshorse. Life is
2018 was the year I went down the FI rabbit hole. I can’t say that my husband and I were big spenders before I found Mr. Money Mustache’s blog. We were already debt-free and had savings well into six figures. But (and stop me when you’ve heard this before) we were making a lot of
Ah, bread. The staff of life. So beautiful in its simplicity. And yet, when you scan the prices in your grocery store, you can’t help but wonder, “Why is something so simple so frigging expensive?” Sure, you can get some not-so-wonderful bread void of nutritional content for a $1.80 a loaf. But Frankenfood is not
Purchasing razor blade cartridges for my Venus razor always made me mad. Coughing up $25 for a lousy 8 blades? How can such a price be justified? A razor cartridge is literally two tiny pieces of metal in a plastic housing. The fact that stores need to put them in shelves with a protective plastic