All posts by Kimberly McCaffery

I’ve tried every popcorn technology known to modern people. My earliest experience was with Jiffy Pop. I shook the pan like a maraca, as the foil balloon expanded.

Frugaltopia was born on a crisp January day in 2009, not long after the Great Recession began. I was having a lunch with Jen, my best friend

The best things in life are free, and Neil Pasricha is keeping track of them on his blog, 1000 Awesome Things. Watch his TEDxTalk to hear

Drive, don’t fly. As I mentioned in my November post, "I'm Done With Flying," the full-body scanners were a tipping point for me. This holiday season we

According to American legend, the Pilgrims would not have survived their first year if the Wampanoag tribe hadn’t given them food and taught them how to farm.

Crafts are not my thing, especially holiday crafts. If you enjoy wielding a glue gun or stitching up a quilt, you won't understand this, but the thought of

The full-body scanners are the last straw. I'm done with flying. This isn't a sudden break-up. I've been falling out of love with air travel for some

In my pursuit of frugal utopia, I've started to realize that the price I pay for an item at the register doesn't always reflect its true cost.

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mohandas K. Gandhi For mother's day, my husband and son built