Ecofrugal Living

To my great relief, the pile of stuff we hauled home from our trip to Indiana has by and large integrated itself neatly into our home. The ...

One of the biggest challenges of writing about frugality is that so many people associate the word with phrases like "tightening your b...

This weekend, Brian and I did something a bit out of step with our usual ecofrugal spending habits. As regular readers know, we're both ...

It's been a very busy weekend for us. Luckily, it wasn't work or other obligations tying up our time, just a bunch of different for-...

Most years, Brian and I celebrate our anniversary in a modest style. For the first few years of our marriage, I'd put on the bodice from...

When streaming video first became a thing, sometime in the late 2000s, Brian and I used to watch it by hooking up his laptop to our TV set. ...

The ecofrugal life, as I've observed before, is a series of little ups and downs . This past week or so, we've had a series of small...

Last year, I wrote a piece for Money Crashers on streaming video services . This year, the editors doubled down by splitting that piece into...

My sewing skills are fairly rudimentary. I can replace a button, mend a torn seam, or darn a hole, but I've never considered myself up t...

As it happens, there's been no big news in our ecofrugal life this week, so instead I thought I'd share a roundup of news stories fr...

Money Crashers has popped up three of my articles in the past week, all on quite different topics. Article #1 is the first in a series of pi...

First of all, my apologies for not putting up a new post last week (aside from my usual updates about what I've written for Money Crashe...