Ecofrugal Living

Lately I've become fascinated with stories about people who, for whatever reason, challenge themselves to spend some period of time--typ...

Let me count the ways: 1. Organic raisins at $2.79 a pound. 2. Crumpets in both plain and cinnamon. 3. Humanely farmed bacon. 3. Pesto-...

The snowdrops and crocuses have been out this past week, poking their little white and yellow heads out into the brownish desolation of late...

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...