Frugal

[crazychicknlady]

I love being able to make a meal for my family out of a dollars worth of bread, 25 cents worth of milk and our chicken's eggs.

Okay, to be fair, I added a few cents of cinnamon and a little vanilla, too. Still easily totaling less than 2 bucks :).

I'm frugal, and sometimes even like to revel in the fact.

I do break out of the mold sometimes - I even bought an icecream cake for H for her birthday recently. Of course, looking at the pricetags, $15.99 for a regular round cake, $16.99 for the same sized icecream cake, I didn't even have to think twice (plus the added benefit of satisfying a lifelong childhood desire to have an icecream cake for my own Birthday, it was a definite win).

Cheers!

Comments

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

I love summer, when I can make dinner for us with $1.29 worth of noodles, a few cents worth of olive oil and garlic, and tomatoes and basil from our garden (though I often throw in a decidedly un-frugal handful of pine nuts - David sometimes buys large amounts of gourmet ingredients like that for gifts for me. I got 2 pounds for my birthday last year).

[crazychicknlady.livejournal.com]

Yay for useful yummy gifts. Then you have the item on hand and don't have to worry too much about how much it costs.

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

Exactly! My very favorite Christmas present this year was the 1/4 pound of real vanilla beans I got from a cousin. I've been having the most wonderful vanilla sugar in my coffee every morning since Christmas.