Frugal Framnett

To those who have or are visiting this site I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I resolve to place more of my focus on this site! Hope to see you back!

I started this blog up, almost one year ago. As is usual for this time of the year the blog was part of my New Year’s Resolution package. As you can see, there was fervor for writing it and that fervor died away too.

However, with the end of this year approaching I would like to revive this effort both the effort of saving wisely and the effort of sharing my less ons with you.

That fireplace, a Kozy Heat fireplace also serves to help us save on our utility bills and keep the house at a comfortable temperature.
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Yesterday, Lorie and I went to a nearby strip mall so I could get my haircut. Unfortunately, the haircut place was closed. We parked next to a small Toyota SUV that was fairly new.

The Toyota had an orange tag on the window notifying the owner to get their vehicle by May 17 or it would be considered an abandoned vehicle. Odd, most of the time I see those tags on cars alongside the highway.

Anyway I did get into the haircut place today. I inquired with the woman cutting my hair about it and she noted the owner parked it, walked into the neighboring Wells Fargo Finance Office and left the keys with them. Apparently, the owner decided they could no longer afford to pay on it.

Of course, one wonders what the situation was. Did someone take on too much of a car payment? Did they lose a job? Become disabled? Break a mirror and you get seven years of bad luck, well dude’s (or dudette’s) is in for seven years of bad credit.

I bet they were upside down on the vehicle, otherwise why handle it like that?

When grocery shopping, that is.

I’ve always heard the theory that shopping the perimeter of the grocery store - buying the fresh foods and not the processed ones - is less expensive overall. Now that my spouse is following a specific meal plan, I’m buying almost exclusively fresh food, when I used to buy a mix of fresh, canned, frozen, and some processed food. And lo and behold, my first week shopping, I spent almost twice my normal grocery budget. Now, some of that was “start up” expenses, foods that I can buy in bulk and use over time, but a lot of it was things I will have to buy on a weekly basis (produce doesn’t last forever, after all). I expected this to be the case, but it begs the question - contrary to popular wisdom, is shopping the perimeter really more expensive?

Source: Why My Perimeter is More Expensive Than My Aisles – I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… (From financial imprisonment to financial independence, a penny at a time. This is one family’s story.)

In the comments section I already explained that she is inviting a question not begging it, but of course there is a larger thought here…

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Well Lorie and I believe we need to take care of those who take care of us. Usually this means a stop at Third Base for some barley pops and either a pizza or sandwichs.

Not this time.

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