Parenting

Parenting Issues

• Spring Break on a Budget

• Spinning Straw into Gold

• The Frugal/Green Life is One Big Party

• Keeping Up With the Joneses, Liberal Portland Style

• How About Some Free Rice?

• Conscious Frugality through The Ages

• Patience

• Sunday Evening Non-Consumer Mish-Mash

• How Can We Appreciate The Finer Things In Life, When It's Surrounded By Crap?

• School Lunches -- Yet Another Update

• A Love Letter To The Belmont Branch Library

• Kittens!

• Secondhand Children's Clothing -- Dangerous?

• Really, Really Last Minute Holiday Shopping

• Happy Is Not A Four Letter Word

• Why I Won't Be Telling My Kids That Santa Is On A Budget

• Coin Girl To The Rescue!

• The Era Of The Competitively Expensive Stroller

• Sometimes A Problem Is An Opportunity In Disguise

• Non-Consumer Halloween Costumes

• The Easter Bunny Is Not Part Of The Compact

• Non-Consumer Gifts For A Teenager

• Autumn Has Fallen

• Picky Eating -- Don't Give Up

• A Spontaneous Trip To Seattle

• Kid Movies For People Who Hate Kid Movies

• What Makes Me Happy

• Planned Obsolescence, As Explained To A Ten-Year-Old

• The Non-Consumer Soccer Mom

• It’s 12 O’Clock, Do You Know What Your Child Is Eating From?

• Happy 100th Blog -- The Non-Consumer Advocate!

• Gift Giving -- How To Be Frugal And Yet Generous

• Back To School Clothes -- Why?

• A Reason For Non-Consumers To Celebrate

• The Non-Consumer Lemonade Stand

• Volunteering -- Like Work, But Better

• The Era Of The Competitively Expensive Stroller

• Great Books For Greater Kids

• Sadness

• Calling All Spendthrifts: Keep It Up!

• The Frugal/Green Life is One Big Party

• Welcome to the Non-Consumer Advocate!