I’m still here! I took an unplanned (and therefore unannounced) break from writing the blog, which was intended to be for a week, but expanded to a month and then two months… WHOOPS. I confes...
Brian and Michael, both 34, live with their two cats in central Connecticut. Michael works as a project coordinator for a state behavioral health agency serving young people and has a side job...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/09/29/reader-case-study-yearning-for-a-debt-free-future/
Last weekend was ye olde county fair here in Vermont and, of course, we were on the scene to cuddle cows (if you’re Kidwoods) and look askance at cows (if you’re Littlewoods). The county f...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/09/18/why-i-let-my-kids-go-into-debt/
As you may have noticed, things look different around here! Turns out, there’ve been some advancements in web design in the nine years since I started Frugalwoods. No one will be surprised t...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/09/14/welcome-to-the-new-looking-frugalwoods/
Kat and her husband Jay live in the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan where Jay is stationed as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. They are childfree by choice and have an adorable dog named Sadie....
A menace wall in our home is gone! Longtime readers may recall that we’ve embarked on a slow, years-long renovation process, which we kicked off with a wall removal. This erstwhile wall aw...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/07/31/a-wall-removal-and-other-june-2023-expenses/
Laura and her husband Ethan are from Philadelphia, PA, but have been living in Hanoi, Vietnam for the past two years. Ethan teaches English literature at an international school and Laura is e...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/07/24/reader-case-study-ex-pats-in-hanoi-vietnam/
A question I’ve been getting a lot lately: “What happened to your dog???” I get this question via email, through blog comments, on INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK and in person. It’s taken me awhi...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/07/20/the-tail-of-gigi-the-dog/
Anna is a 35-year-old special eduction teacher of middle school students with severe and profound disabilities. She lives in rural Illinois and is currently working on completing her master’...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/06/30/reader-case-study-special-education-teacher-in-debt/
Yes indeed, we’ve welcomed a hobbit into our home. Mr. FW is a well-known lover of The Lord of The Rings books and the main reason he wanted to have children was to one day read the series w...
https://www.frugalwoods.com/2023/06/19/the-hobbit-and-other-may-2023-expenses/
Sam and Riley are a married couple living in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada along with their dog Bisky and two cats, Theodore and Greta. Sam works as a plasterer and Riley is a social worker at ...
One of the driving forces behind the birth of Frugalwoods was our desire to leave the city and buy a homestead in the woods. That happened in May 2016 and let me tell you, we had A LOT of prec...