We recently took our daughter to an allergist, and we found out that she was allergic to a bunch of common things. Meaning: Our food bills just went up a bit. Bread that our daughter could eat was $4 a loaf! So, we started looking for a bread machine. We picked up a Hitachi Automatic … Read more
After my “oops!” at the auction a couple of weeks ago, like any good masochist, I thanked them and asked for another. Though I spent most of the evening getting outbid on coins, there was some silk-screening equipment up for auction. My wife and I are working to get a small business in (mostly) baby … Read more
The first flea market of the season was on April Fool’s Day. Here’s what I picked up: A metal 8-shelf document tray for a quarter. Old and sturdy. This is $32.99 at Staples now. An old Scrabble game for a quarter. Scrapbookers buy just the tiles for about $5/set on eBay! An Ikea stool that … Read more
Ran across a couple of posts about regular expenses that can cost you a ton of money in the long run: My Money Forest posts on an article he found in the OUDaily about how snacks can eat you (or, at least your retirement!) My Money Blog saved $250 on haircuts in one year by … Read more
John Anderson, a brilliant mathematician and one of my favorite professors at college, had quite a way with words as well. On one of my papers I made a silly algebra error (I think it was equating the sum of the squares with the square of the sum) and he wrote, “Obviously, this is a … Read more
Since our current riding lawn mower is dying a slow death and the grass is getting a little taller, we stepped up the pace looking for another one. We checked out a number of options. Do we get: an upgrade to the one we have one similar to the one we have one that will … Read more
After church on Sunday we drove past a garage sale. It was the tail end of it, so the sellers were packing the stuff up. They have a 2-year-old daughter and were selling some of her clothes. (The 2-year-old, not really understanding what was going on, kept taking her stuff back — especially her Dora … Read more
I’ll go to quite some length to be frugal. $50 worth of bathroom tissue if it’s a really good price. Picking up change off the ground. Fixing the riding lawn mower, again. I questioned this one: Those little packets of coffee that the hotel gives you? The ones that might brew four cups of coffee … Read more