I know this may sound ridiculous to some people, but I’ve shared a lot of personal things on my blog and I’ve always gotten good feedback, so I’m going to just get it off my chest. I’m tired of getting made fun of for my frugal/green ways. It seems like I’m always hiding something, not telling the whole truth to people, or just avoiding others in an attempt to not be made fun of. The worst time I have with this is at work. There are a couple people there (including my manager, who I really like in general) that are always chastising me for decisions I make in my personal life. When I decided to share with them that I would have problems getting pregnant, they decided to make it their own business. I would share some things with them, and I’d get “well, you need to see a fertility specialist” (from my manager), to “you really don’t want a baby, do you? It doesn’t seem like you’re doing anything to get pregnant.” (obnoxious co-worker) Let me tell you, [...]

I’ve got some good news, and some bad news. The bad news is our summer garden is finally on its way out, and the good news is the fall garden is coming along nicely! Some more experienced gardeners may laugh at our little plot of land, but we’re pleased as punch with what we got out of it this year, and can’t wait to plant another new one next year! I took some pictures this afternoon. Two of our tomato plants tipped over sometime last night. We really haven’t gotten too many off these plants yet (notice all the green ones!) so we are pretty bummed. When Mr. Money gets home from work, I’m going to have him go see if he can rescue them. By the way, these came up all by themselves and I transplanted them here. Can’t beat that! Something is getting my beans. I planted these in August and they have been producing like crazy! We’ve been freezing them every chance we get, and man are they yummy! I looked today and there were little lady [...]

As part of my commitment to tracking every penny we spend, I’ve decided I’m going to make more meals at home and take my lunch to work every day. If I don’t take my lunch, I starve. Well, not really. I border on hypoglycemic so I’m not all about passing out in honor of saving money. So today after I left work, I decided to stop at the grocery store and pick up some items to help with the meal planning and lunch-taking. I made a list, checked it twice, and set off in the store. We eat a lot of healthy food (at least I like to think so), and our fall garden is slowly growing, so I try to buy a lot of fresh produce and organics.  I am also making breakfast for everyone at work tomorrow (hence the bacon) so I had to pick up a few things for that as well. When I had this all in my cart and was walking out of the store, I was wondering why it seemed like I had spent [...]