Ecofrugal Living

The Troll and I are in the process of refinishing our basement. Actually, we've been in the process more or less ever since we bought t...

My dad mentioned that he was thinking of replacing their old bread machine, which was the very earliest model made. It's large, cumbers...

According to this article in the New York Times , people are now willing to buy up Treasury securities at zero percent yield. That's z...

At Thanksgiving dinner, my family doesn't "say grace" as such. Instead, we go around the table and each person there tells wh...

Last year, my father-in-law gave us a bunch of old glass-top canning jars found at a yard sale.  Since we don't have a canner, we decide...

I never realized how much of my time I was frittering away on the Internet until my cable got taken out by high winds this past Tuesday. Al...

The Troll and I have been busy preparing our cave for winter.  We spent much of last weekend transferring about 700 cubic feet of insulation...