Throughout a woman’s lifetime, it’s believed that she will use an average of 16,800 pads or tampons. Tampons and pads can be cheap, but what if you could eliminate having to purchase them each month?  You’ll be saving so much money over your lifetime, and also eliminating thousands of tampons and pads from making their way into our landfills.  Here’s how you can do it: Reusable menstrual cup, such as a Diva Cup, Moon cup, or Keeper. These are generally made of medical grade silicone.  What’s nice about these is that there’s no risk of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) like you can get by using tampons.  Also, it’s much more comfortable and pretty easy to use.  It costs around $25 and should last forever.  By using bleached tampons, you are subjecting your “girly bits” to bleach, chemicals, perfumes, irritants, and cotton fibers; and really, does that sound like a good thing?  Not to me.  I don’t want bleach or chemicals to be absorbed into my body through um, there. DivaCup or Keeper? I had been a big fan of the [...]

I need your help.  I need to be talked out of some crazy ideas I have in my head.  I know this is the perfect place to do so because I have a bunch of frugal friends that will bring me back to reality. I want to sell my house.  Like, yesterday.  I am tired of owning a house and all the work that comes with it (painting, maintenance, replacing flooring, etc.).  I am tired of having projects not done around here (missing baseboards, thresholds).  I just want to go back to renting and not have to worry about a huge monthly payment for some place to live and I want to stop worrying about how much my house is worth (Zillow doesn’t work for my house) and I just want to be closer to family. Coincidentally, I want to move back to Colorado, where Mr. Money’s family is located.  This poses so many problems it’s not even funny.  For starters, we both have good paying, stable (as they can be) jobs right now.  We should just be thankful for [...]

Happy Sunday!  I hope you all are raring and ready for the week ahead.  I am hoping that we’ll start to see the weather warm up a little! Here are some of my favorite posts this week: Business credit, a Necessary evil at Wide Open Wallet. Ashley contemplates the use of business credit. Kacie at Sense to Save asks Should we buy a ’starter house’ or just ‘one-and-done’? I have mixed feelings on this.  I think I’d be happy living in an RV, so I think a small house could suffice.  At the same time, I know what it’s like to want a newer, nicer house! Miss M at M is for Money wraps up her series on buying a home. You should definitely check out the whole series! Glass straws are where it’s at over at Green and Crunchy. I am totally wanting some of my own now! Mrs. Micah has a heart wrenching post up on why she’s glad she didn’t kill herself. J Money at Budgets are Sexy has opened up a ROTH IRA! Congrats! Have a [...]