August Frugal Families Blog Archives

A Walk in The Park….

     Recently I started walking two miles a day to help lower my blood pressure.  I did not run out and join a gym I didn’t even buy walking shoes.  I was given a heart rate monitor as a gift which does help me push myself harder if I need to but the reality is […]

Tailgaitin’ Fun

     We live in a part of the country which I will admit has summer fun written all over it……however a lot of the fun we have here is that the locals here our extremely laid back and welcoming.  We meet about twice a month a group of friends at a local park for concert […]

The joys - and perils - of yardsaling

I’ll admit it - I came to yardsaling late in life.  When I think back on my childhood, I don’t remember yardsales at all.  I’ll grant that they probably weren’t as common, and, of course, I lived in a much less populated area.  But even if I’d grown up in an area surrounding a big […]