I am not frugal. I am opposite of frugal. Living with a frugal husband has not really rubbed off on me but I am trying. If you are in the same boat as I am who wants to save more, join me as I share my attempt to go from shopaholic extraordinaire to the Mother Theresa of simple living.

Here are the first 3 frugal habits I have embraced so far:
1. Using the Library.
I’ve mentioned in the past that I have recently re-discovered the joys of borrowing books from the library. On average, I buy at least 3-4 new books a …read more

It is interesting that there are many tips that we can do so as to lessen the amount of junk and trash that is scattered around and is piling up in dump sites.  However, it sometimes takes a little reminder so we could remember what we really should do to recycle those stuff which we think we should throw away.
One of the interesting tips that I have come across is this: buying a smaller container for garbage. Well, if you’re going to think about it, this would mean that you would have to make that much trips to empty your …read more

Paper is something that we sometimes take advantage of. In fact, we sometimes do not think much of paper. But come to think of it, if we waste too much paper and we do not recycle them, we would end up with no trees in the forest because we need them to make paper. So just imagine how the world would end up if we all did not know how to recycle paper. So what do we do?
Well, one of the best tips that I have found about how to reuse paper I discovered lately. If you have a kid …read more

This is a series of posts that are focused on recycling. After all, we do need some fresh ideas on what to do with those things that we see in the house and yet we do not know what to do with them. Of course, if we do find a good use for them, they sure would not be making their way to the garbage bin. Recycling them would be better.
And so this is the first of the series and this is all about what you can do with those plastic bags that you get from shopping and everywhere else.

Use …read more

Each one of us reads quite a number of books in our lifetime. And come to think of it, there are some books that we just purchase and never had the time to read. And we start to think what we should do with them. Should we just throw them away?
Well, here are a couple of tips on what we all can do to recycle those old books:

Throw a book swap party. Get in a few bottles of wine (organic and fair trade of course) and get together your friends, family or neighbors for a book swapping party. You can …read more