Hello, I like your idea about saving lunchmoney but the funny thing is that spending lunchmoney at work is the most frugal thing I can do. We pay a dollar a day for our lunch which provides for bread, toast, milk, juice, fruit, vegetables etc. We make a pot and one of us goes shopping for lunch in the supermarket. This works fine for us and is a ...

Hi  Well I never posted here befor but I was doing my paperwork and started to count all the expenses we make. After I finished I was wondered that my calculations by head wore pretty much the same as when I wrote them all down.  So here mine come. At the end I will transfer the amount into Dollars as my calculation go in Euros. This ...

I recently bought my weddingdress through ebay. It was custommade and perfect fit. It took 3 week for the dress to arrive but it was a lovely dress. The dress costed including shipping $ 150. When I was looking around on our national kind of ebay I saw that the same dresses here are sold in the wedding shops for over $ 1.000 so I made a really ...

Dear Deb, So good to hear this good news. I am happy for you! Must be a very big relief!

I learned how to cook when I left home. Some basics I had learned than but my parents always use to eat old fashioned and I never learned how to cook pasta, rice or something like that. Our daily meal was homemade soup as a starter, boiled or baked potatoes, meat and mostly 2 or 3 kinds of veggies as my dad always used to have a veg. garden and we ...

When I had lice when I was young, my mom did this:  She washed my hair with regular shampoo and than put in a lot, very lot of conditioner and left it for about 5 minutes befor she started combing my hair with a regular comb to get out the knots. Than I hang my head on my chest and she combed it with a licecomb from the back of my head ...

Dear Brandy, I think you should try the Dutch cheeseslicer. As everybody knows the Dutch are frugal people( perhaps you know the story how copperthread was invented by two Dutch who argued about a penny and pulled both one side of that penny) That slicer makes perfect thin slices. Maybe you have some older Dutch ...

I have a fulltime job, a hubby a "parttime son" a dog and two cats. son comes home on thursdays as is hubby as he leaves home mondaymorning at 4 15 am for work and returns on thursday at 10.00 pm so all things that have to be done those days I have to do myself. On mondaymorning I get up at 3.30 am. I make coffee, lunchbag for hubby ...

Well Brandy, As almost everybody in Holland has a contract for working a certain amount of hours a week I know what the minimum will be I receive. My hubby to be always makes overtime and at the and of the month he delivers his hoursstatement and the next week his company pays all the hours from the previous month. So I calculate his ...

Hi all,  this checkbook way looks pretty complicated to me! There are no cheques used in Holland. Everything goes by banktransfer, atm machines and cash. Employers transfer payments every month on a certain date so you know exacty what you can spend the next month. No employee receives his payment in cash of by cheque. Credit cards are also ...