boston mom living fancy on a budget
I attended a local blogger conference in the city, aptly named, Blog Better Boston. (Check out the awesome location at Boston Globe HQ!)
Back when I was a new-ish blogger, it was the first blogging conference I had ever attended. This time I was invited to speak. My… Continue reading
For one week. Hey, I wasn’t lying.
The last time I drove a new car was well over 7 years ago. That new car smell may well be the biggest mood lifter.
Toyota gave me a car to test drive for a week to see where my adventures… Continue reading
Do you blog? Do you want to blog? If you plan to blog as a business..you will need to attend a blogging conference.
Write all you want. Chat all day. Click those pics and LOL yourself silly. If you want a successful blog, you… Continue reading
We all know the bad and the ugly of what happened last Friday in Newtown, CT.
This is the good.
We live in a second floor traditional New England style home. From the outside it looks like a single family home, with a porch. Inside are three floors divided up into separate apartments. True New England… Continue reading
I co-hosted a company holiday party.
I don’t own a company. And, technically, I don’t celebrate the holidays.
The irony of blogging is that we are seen in social media but in real life we are alone.
If you work from home in any capacity, you understand what I mean. Once you… Continue reading
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
Me, I check my email. I turn on my phone and scroll quickly if anything catches my eye.
In early September I got an email that had me rubbing my eyes to see clearly…an invitation to join the Windows Ambassador program, better known as the… Continue reading
We’ve been together now a little over a year.
It was great in the beginning. We started at Blogspot, without a worry or care in the world. Google took care of the site, did all the Google-y things it does. I wrote, you read. Times were easier back than. Simpler.
Than… Continue reading
Coffee tastes better this way.
This is the face of organic. Clean air, blue skies and nature growing wild. I took this picture from my hotel room in Vermont, minutes from the Green Mountain Coffee Plant.
Last month I was invited, along with three other bloggers, to visit the… Continue reading
Abundance is a wonderful thing.
This is a small snapshot of the many shelves and rooms filled from floor to ceiling with children’s clothing, toys and gear all ready to help a family in need.
My fellow blogging buddy, Niri, organized a very special event in celebration of her birthday. Instead… Continue reading
It’s gone. All of it.
Goodnight grains. Goodnight flour. Goodnight cereal, rice and all that baking powder.
We spent the past weekend throwing out all of our dry good stockpile. ALL. OF. IT. I went through moments of chills, being totally grossed out and generally sick to my stomach having to throw out so much… Continue reading
Hi! I'm Isra, aka The Frugalette. I took my family from fancy to frugal in 3 years, with 3 kids and 1 income, oh and found the meaning of life too! To read more about my fancy life gone frugal, click here...
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