We’re a big fan of delicious-tasting easy and cheap meals here at The Frugal Farmer. Keeping the grocery budget around $400 a month for our family of six takes some work, so we always take note when we find great meals that cost under $5. Here are some of our favorites: Beans …
If you’ve been reading The Frugal Farmer for any amount of time, ya’ll know that we’re on a super tight budget. We’ve learned how to cut expenses enough to manage our income and our high DTI well, but the things that really get us are those one-time expenses: the occasional …
Photo Credit One of our goals in moving to our hobby farm a year and a half ago was to increase our level of self-sufficiency. Most of you know that self-sufficiency means being able to provide for yourself, but what does that mean, in detail, to our family?
Does other people’s success ever stop you from achieving your goals? We were reminded the other day of a time when we let this happen to us. It all started with a post over at Out of Your Rut. Kevin wrote an article about the dangers of The …
Photo Credit Well, friends, here it is Valentine’s Day. Whether or not you celebrate this “holiday”, I do have to admit it does make me think about all of the wonderful people we have in our lives. Over the past year, the readers, commenters and writers in the PF …
Photo Credit I’ve been watching the interest on our Discover card go up and up, since a large portion of our balance there just ended it’s 0% introductory rate and is now costing us money. When I apply my payments, they go toward the rest of the balance first, which is still at …
Cleaning the windows is likely one of the most tedious jobs for homeowners everywhere. If you have windows that need cleaning, you can hire a professional, or you can use our favorite frugal window cleaning solution and some elbow grease and get the job done yourself. No harsh chemicals with this solution: just common household …
Photo credit I’m sitting here in my office right now, freezing my tail off. We keep the heat much lower than I’d like it to be. Why? Because we want debt freedom more than we want the instant gratification of a warm house and whatever else our …
After I wrote my recent post titled “Can You ‘Bootstrap’ Your Way Out of Poverty?”, someone asked me a very valid question, and that question was, “Given your situation growing up, how did you end up in such a financial mess as an adult?” The answer, quite honestly, is that I had, for years, short-sighted …
Photo Credit It’s 2014, my friends! And since the new year is here, I thought I’d share some ways to save money for 2014. And with your extra funds, you can pay off debt, save up for a special purchase, or maybe take that well-deserved vacation you’ve been thinking about. 🙂
