Reviews of products that enhance a lifestyle of frugality and simplicity
I don’t know about you but sometimes I wish we didn’t have to eat. Oh, I do enjoy good food and from time to time I enjoy preparing meals but all in all I would rather do without fixing and eating food. But the rest of my family would quickly get up in arms, right? [...]
In a recent article, I talked about tools I find useful in my kitchen. Many have asked how can I say that owning all those appliances could possibly be “simple” or frugal. Good questions need good answers. For me (and note that it is my personal choice), sometimes an item or tool serves one purpose [...]
Budget. Simple. They just don’t go together, do they? Most budgets, at least until you get it set up, are not simple. BUT once they are set up, they can simplify your life dramatically. But like the word “diet” strikes dread in some hearts, so it does with mentioning the word budget. And take my [...]
Messy piles. Unfinished lessons. Broken tools. Unfinished projects. Lost keys. Leaky faucet. Late meals. Missed appointments… Frustrations!!! What are your biggest little problems? Just how do you deal with those big little things in your life? And how much simpler it would be if you weren’t bumping into the same little irritations all the time. [...]
Pain is a big motivator. And pain can come in many forms. The pain of a severe income loss causes one to look at new budget strategies – the need to be frugal. In my case, I have a real physical pain. Hiatal hernia. Any0ne who knows they have one knows what I am talking [...]
Time to do a review of my Breville Smart Oven Part of simplifying my lifestyle has consisted of reducing my use of the large oven. There are just plain times when using the big oven is just not sensible and I even went to the point of not baking if I felt that using the [...]
Recently I got the bug to start shopping for a digital camera a few notches above my old “point and shoot” digital cameras. This simple frugal mom of 9 and grandmother of 2 is ready for something that lets me control how my images turn out. For years I have been a casual photographer but [...]
This is, as the title suggests, a review of the Bosch Universal Plus Kitchen Machine but I have to qualify that. We have been baking bread for our family and friends since 1995 or thereabouts, using the older Bosch Universal MUM 6 model. In fact I am still using that machine. The problem is that [...]
Did I tell you that I love Altoids? Not the original ones (Peppermint – too strong for me) but the hard to find Ginger Mints. I happened upon them quite by accident when looking for another of their flavors – Creme de Menthe – online. You see, I was quite a Cinnamon Altoids officianado for [...]
Part of having a SimpleFrugal home is also deciding what things are useful and what things just take up space or are “eye candy”. If you have a large kitchen that has lots of storage behind closed doors, then bless you, you may not need to be as particular here (though you may still find [...]
Stress Less by Don Colbert
