Hello Almost Frugal!

Hello Almost Frugal readers and Thank you for stopping by!

A few months ago, I was interviewed by Kelli Rigotti, writer and publisher for the website Almost Frugal, learning about Frugality. The interview contained 4 questions about What Frugal Looks Like.

4 questions, but during the process of answering them I realized something:

Frugality is not second nature....It's something you have to learn and work at every day!

When that sunk in, I was rather intimidated and started wondering if I was even qualified to answer these 4 questions. It took me a few days of thinking before I could respond and those questions, 1 in particular have been on my mind every since, and I am curious about what other people would say.

What are your long term goals that being frugal will help you accomplish?

Are you frugal to help yourself and your family? Can you do something to help your friends and community? Can your frugal ways help the environment? All of these questions were inspired by that 1 question, and I have been thinking long and hard on how to answer them, because Frugality is not second nature, it is something I am still learning and working at every day.

Many Thanks to Kelli Rigotti for the opportunity to contribute to Almost Frugal!

Thanks again from stopping by, here are some of my favorite posts from the past that have a frugal focus.

The Penny Experiment - Giving back to my community

Keeping It Together! - How I wrangle my coupons :)

Growing our own - preserving food for the winter.

Mega Swag Day!

It's Mega Swagbucks day! Ok, just for fun, go to Swagbucks and search for "La Vida Cheapo", I did and won 50 swag bucks!!

Many Thanks to the Ladies of the Alpha Iota Sorority!

I mentioned in my 5 things post this week that I was working on a presentation because I had been given an opportunity to speak about coupon shopping by the Ladies of the Alpha Iota Sorority. I am glad to report that it went very well!

(Micki, Kathy, Jan, Sue Cheri, Pam and me)

The Alpha Iota Sorority in Spokane are philanthorpic Ladies that graduated from the Kinman Business School. They asked me to talk about how to use coupons to save money in order to be able to give more to the foundations they support.

I have so much admiration for these Ladies! Every one of them was so nice and friendly. I was extremely nervous but they made me feel very comfortable and welcome and the time just flew by. Before I knew it, I had been talking for an hour - and was really only suppose to speak for 45 minutes at the most!

Thank you so very much Ladies of Alpha Iota! I enjoyed and appreciate the opportunity you gave me to talk with you :)

Boy, Beebee gun and one big bummer

In case anyone was wondering why I have not done a favs of the week yet...

Yup, that is a shattered window in one of the French Doors that goes out to our back patio. Our neighbor boy - who - before I go any further - is actually a very sweet and responsible kid - was playing with his new Bee bee gun in his back yard. He must of gotten it for Christmas this year and a couple days ago I knew that it was new because I could hear him shooting it from inside our house, where I could not with his old one.

Anyway, he was shooting at his target and since I have never seen him point it anything but his target I was not worried. I let the cat out and took 2 steps out of the room when I heard POP!

Then....crackle....crackle....crackle....

Then Colby started screaming that something hit the window and sure enough, I pull back the blind and see the outside pane just spider web shattering while I watch.

Now, of course I have to go around the block and knock on my neighbors door and basically pretty much let them know what happened. This is always a dicey situation, no matter how it goes it is uncomfortable and any Police officer can tell you a story about how something like this has turned into the Hatfields and McCoys in any given city. I was nervous to say the least. I didn't want to come out all teeth and claws and ruin what has been a friendly-over-the-fence relationship. Proceeding with caution...

I explained the situation, the poor boy was so upset! He had not even realized that it happened and I felt so bad for him. He goes to a different school then the one that most of the neighborhood kids do and doesn't have alot of friends on the block so he was just doing what he enjoyed to pass a bit of time before it got dark. His parents took away his toy and locked it up. He apologized profusely and I couldn't be mad, it really was an accident. A Bee Bee ricochet accident.

So, we are working it out now with his folks and Insurance. We are really lucky that all of our neighbors are so nice and I was really relieved that we were able to resolve this is a friendly fashion. This actually happened before at our former home and it didn't really work out....

Anyway, this is why there are no favs this week. But, if your out and about and find something really hot please leave a comment and let us know about it :)