Pam's Pennypinching With STYLE

Keep on Keepin On - Out of the Slump

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:25:15 GMT

Well, I am coming out of my slump - I got this awful bug which got me down - but some self-doctoring and I am on the mend. FYI - I took goldenseal as a quasi-antibiotic and then Chinese Gan Mao Ling (good for beginnings of colds that haven't gone into

Wreath et al

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:25:28 GMT

Inspired by a thriftyfun person I made myself a Halloween wreath thing using this graphic I saved from www.doverpublishing.com.

Mine is different, but on a coat hanger (we didn't have too many of tho

On a Money Diet

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:04:18 GMT

Well, we are on a money diet - as I call it - and I really haven't spent any money this week. (Ok, I got some pay-for-view movies and one $1 day pass for winster.com - and I guess that counts, too, but it will come in after the next, b

Coping with $ by the Wicked Witch

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:10:53 GMT

Just got a check from thriftyfun.com because I had won a tip contest for my submission on the Free Museum Day last weekend! Ironically, my hubby & I were under the weather & stayed home...

One of the frugal blogs I had subscribed

Quick correction

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:05:00 GMT

Just a quick correction - the site I go to for paid surveys is dollarsurveys.net (NOT .COM) - I am under the weather but still racking up points, etc.

The Bugs Got Me & Bacon Bits

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:27:35 GMT

My husband has been down with a respiratory thing for a couple of weeks, which I seem to have avoided - only to get something ELSE. I have applied homecare relatively successfully - using goldenseal as an antibiotic of sorts. You can only use if for a

Daily Newz/costume dramas et al.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:56:27 GMT

Watched The Other Boleyn Girl flick last night on pay-per-view - It was an extravagence, but I adore costume dramas & there really wasn't anything to watch otherwise - I

Little Bits of $

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:50:24 GMT

Well, the penny jar did go to Coinstar the other day - All that copper had to get back into circulation! I only use Coinstar for pennies, tho, because they do charge a percentage to convert change! I know some banks have free ones, but none aroun

Eyeing the Penny Jar

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:02:56 GMT

No, I haven't gotten to the penny jar yet - but I AM trying to call in old debts with the help of PayPal's automatic email service! Doesn't help to TRY. We DID get $100 back from a debtor/friend last week!

Also wrote a new article for ass

Freebies + pennypinching daily

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:10:59 GMT

Oh, it looks as if I have been neglecting you all! I have had a few auditions, etc. and the rest of the time I have gotten into freebie hunting. I found RoboForm, which fills in the forms automatically, so I am getting/entering EVERYTHING -

Frugality Style?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:08:03 GMT

Because I have been working on a book about my frugal lifestyle, I have been trying to determine what my frugal style actually IS. It certainly doesn't mean having my own chickens and a fish pond, as a recent My Frugal Life contributor said!

Vintage and Me

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:11:27 GMT

Here's a recap of our deals over the Labor Day weekend -

I had a big audition in town on Friday so we couldn't leave as early as we had planned - It was in Santa Monica, so afterwards we walked up and down Main St., looking at the boutiques, an

Communications

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:58:57 GMT

The theme today seems to be communications - I had to fiddle with my old fax to try to get an incoming fax & finally resorted to my free efax acct. (go to efax.com). The fax then shows up in my email. They will give you a free number that

Oldie but Goodie Ways to Go

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:36:48 GMT

In Barnes & Noble enjoying the A/C and looking at the bargain books and ran up against THE ORGINAL GIRL's HANDY BOOK - a reprint of an original 1887 book written by 2 of the founders of the Girl Scouts! It has beautiful etched black and white

I am the Birthday Girl Today!

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:31:42 GMT

My husband and I are celebrating my birthday together - and last night we took advantage of our Lawry's VIP coupons to go to the Tam O'Shanter - a lovely old restaurant with lots of Scottish memorabilia and great prime rib. We had a free appetize

Tweet Tweet

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:46:08 GMT

My husband thinks of me as a twittering bird and, in face, I AM on www.twitter.com/pamphyila !! Working out the feed thing here - but I so try to post all the new blog entries here at twitter, fyi -

Hmmm

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:29:57 GMT

Thinking about my frugal book project. My husband unearthed some of my old budget columns from the newspaper I used to write for - I have to read them and get inspired. There is also my manuscript for my frugal book of years ago - maybe that's ar

Me on TV et al.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:03:49 GMT

Found out that the PSA I did for the Center for Health Care Rights in L.A. is being shown locally on KCAL9 on 9/8 between 12-2PM. (And Jolly Roger still occasionally pops up on SciFi in the middle of the night!)

No much to do with my frugality,

Surfing

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:22:49 GMT

Spend my extra time between work surfing the net and checking on the deals I get via emails. Did you know that you can get a debit card from Paypal?? I have a little $ there - & now I can use it places besides eBay -

I also have some

Recommendations at McD's

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:24:07 GMT

Not much going on - but FYI - I think the SUGAR-FREE iced coffee at McD's is good - the other one is MUCH too sweet - I also like the ice cream cones & the yogurt!

How Do We Do It?

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:22:36 GMT

Spent a lovely 4-day wkend at Channel Is. Harbor on the boat. They don't call it the gateway to the "American Riviera" for nothing!

Played our music for Harbor Days on Sat. & I got a lovely travel bag - now it's playing the concer

Scores/Freebies Misc.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:27:07 GMT

Got a ride out to Pasadena with Mark who was doing some errands (he works there & we went to the Pasadena auto club to register a car a friend had given us. Got a whole bunch of maps - you have to ask for them nowadays!)

He dropped me off a

Singing for Your Supper (breakfast or lunch)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:29:16 GMT

My husband and I played music for a picnick at our church last Sunday. (Him on guitar with his songs & me on my concertina trying to emulate European Street music!)

It's fun for us - we had lunch, and then as we were helping to clean up aft

Frugal Carnival Newsflash!

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:09:30 GMT

Check out the Frugal Carnival - a whole slew of frugal blogs, hosted this time here http://www.studentscrooge.com/2008/07/29/festival-of-fru

Vacation After-thoughts - How to SAVE

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:17:15 GMT

Some thoughts on how you can save on your vacation.

Stay somewhere close - we only used 2 tanks of gas! Check our your local points of interest.
You can get deals on commemorative items by looking for last year's - some