I'm starting to wonder whether I'm raising a financial extremist's love child - but I'm not naming names. I think he has plans of retiring at 18 or something. I'm trying very VERY hard here to learn to be more moderate and not so tightass, but it's an ongoing struggle and it ...
Category Archives: food
The wacky world of child support
As readers of this blog may know, sometimes I receive child support for my youngest son from his dad, sometimes not. Usually not. I don't get too angry about it because I make more than enough to support my our kid myself. I do ...
Buy fish – or teach how to buy and cook fish?
Recently, I came across the 2009 cost of eating report for my province. The report gave out the following figures for food costs: "In June 2008 in Alberta, the average monthly cost of the nutritious food basket, for a family of four, was $774." As well, approximately 10% of Albertans are subject to "food insecurity" - ...
Stuff Frugal People Like – Stockpiling Groceries
All self-respecting frugal people consider it their duty – nay, their mission to save money on groceries. The common method used to do this is to stockpile groceries as if they were starring in a reenactment of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic drama, The Road. Certain tools are required to fulfill this money-saving mission. ...
Not looking at the right side of the menu
When I was dead broke years ago, I went to a T. Harv Eker seminar (author of Secrets of The Millionaire Mind) before he became somewhat famous as he is today. Yup, I really am a reformed self-help junkie!One of the stories Harv would tell was about the mindset of ordering ...
Food – Cheap AND Healthy
Grocery costs are one area in the budget that’s highly variable that many people don’t see as being something they really can or should lower costs on.On a monthly basis, the USDA puts out a pretty thorough summary of costs for individuals broken out into categories of thrifty, low cost, moderate and liberal ...
The Woman’s guide to shopping like a man
Last night, I was sitting on the deck enjoying a wobbly pop with my oldest son - who paid his biweekly rent!, discussing shopping. In listening to his (very short) story of buying a new pair of shoes, I realized that maybe some people’s (my) strategy shouldn’t be to avoid shopping but to learn ...