All Days are Frugal, But It’s Not Always Newsworthy
by Katy on May 21, 2025 · 5 comments
I live a life filled with frugal activities, but it’s often a passively frugality. More “I stayed at home and ate leftovers” instead of “I got free library museum passes” or “Look at my $1000 curb picked whatzit!”
Yesterday was a passively frugal day. I drove multiple errands, mostly due to my husband’s bike being in the shop and him needing rides to and from work. This may seem like it should fall under the “expense” column, but it’s because we have just the one car. So, frugal . . . .
Dinner was simple, just some diced Costco rotisserie chicken with cucumbers and homemade dressing. Far from newsworthy.
No recreational shopping, no aspirational purchases, not impressing anyone. Just frugal and happily dull.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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Sometimes dull is best.
1. Stayed home today. Special Olympics softball was cancelled due to rain. Since they informed us early in the day I took a nice long nap! Very frugal entertainment on a rainy day!
2. In cleaning out the fridge yesterday I saved all food deemed “no longer fit to eat” to give to the chickens or the compost pile today.
3. Having ham (from my free Easter ham) with boxed scolloped potatoes (2 boxes for $1) for dinner with a salad.
4. Lunch was egg salad sandwiches courtesy of our hens.
5. Worked on my grocery list and clipped coupons on my grocery app.
With all the crazy in the country right now it’s nice to have a dull boring day.
Happily dull here as well! I just got back from the library, where I read a simple inspirational magazine and checked out two comfortable books.
Making a move on a credit card company which they might never notice but doing so will give me peace of mind. In brief, they have not been able to credit the paper checks I mail them (posting them more than two weeks ahead of time) to my account in time for the due date.
Yes, I can pay online, (as I did this month so I didn’t get hit with charges!), but I don’t want to. We have several no-fee cards and never carry a balance so the interest rate doesn’t matter. This card will go in the cupboard and I will use the one that credits payments promptly, and has as good or better cash back anyway.
Thank you for enduring my brief rant.
Otherwise, hours of gentle rain here were very good for my newly planted potted petunias, at no cost to me. Checking ads for any Memorial Day style groceries to stock up on, perhaps Coke.
Katy, I embrace everything in your last paragraph: “No recreational shopping, no aspirational purchases, not impressing anyone. Just frugal and happily dull.” So well said.
Ditto! Most days I’m just at home cooking food for my family, tending the garden, and doing around the house. But those daily habits make big impacts over time.
I’m reminded of the headline on an interview Amy Dacyczyn did with a fellow frugalite in The Tightwad Gazette: “Lifestyles of the Frugal and Obscure.”