My Frugal Year

Well, it’s clear things aren’t settling down any time soon so I must simply press on and try to update here whenever I can. I have all my grocery and savings receipts all in a pile waiting to be added up. A lot of the savings have been blown because of my lengthy illness and now this new curve ball.

My husband was rear-ended in his car two weeks ago. He’s injured and is not yet able to return to work. Frugality is of even more importance now. Part of what is particularly upsetting in this situation is that his car, which will sadly never be driven again, was the most frugal little car that ever was. We got it close to ten years ago, and it was old then. But it was the little engine that could. The thing wouldn’t stop. It was a 1988 (yes you read that right 1988) Mazda 323. It was not pretty, but it ran and it ran cheap. and now it looks like this:

Sad Car

So…this is what has been distracting me of late. It hadn’t yet been a week that I was finally feeling better from the bout with pneumonia when this happened. Now the kids just got out of school, I’m trying to work as much as I can, and I’m still in school. So yes, I feel terrible about missing my daily or even weekly updates. I will try to do better now.

Speaking of school, I’ll have my Associates Degree in a month, then about a year and half to get my Bachelors. I’m getting there…slowly but surely I’m getting there.