parmesan garlic bread…yum

So this is a great thing… I mix up all the ingredients, set it on the counter, and by dinner time the butter is softened and it can be mixed and spread on your choice of bread. The recipe calls for a loaf of French bread, but I’ve used it on leftover hoagie rolls, hamburger [...]

frugal fridays- girls weekend

I remember in college I had a friend who had an older sister or aunt or someone who once a year had a “girls week” with her college friends. They had been to Lake Tahoe and the beach and all sorts of fantastic places. I remember thinking how wonderful and luxurious that sounded and how [...]

two income trap

Yesterday I watched a really interesting video posted by Meredith at Like Merchant Ships. It is Elizabeth Warren’s presentation of her researching findings comparing spending in the 1970s and now. In a nutshell, she discovered that middle class families are living on two incomes much more now, not because they are spending more on things [...]