Where Babies Come From

Once upon a time there was a frosting company that made delicious, creamy frosting. Once capitalism really made a break out and economic success was anyone's for the taking the frosting company developed the world's first Marketing Department.

After a few corny ads and mild growth the new Marketing Department (uninhibited by 'thinking in the box' as this was an entirely new concept) hatched the evil plan to go into women's brains and make them believe they NEEDED frosting. Right out of the tin. Right now. No matter what.

But how to get women to let them alter their brains? Ahh this, boys and girls, is where the first "Buy this and get this sample product free" campaign began. All you had to do was succumb to the mind altering psychosis of frosting-control and you get a cute little baby. Hitherto frosting-control was known as pregnancy.

Later on frosting was harder to come by because sugar cane was grown primarily in the South and the Civil War had great impact on transportation of goods so said frosting company took a major financial hit and sold it's exclusive rights to the 'brain-control' method to a pickle company, which is where that old stereo type comes from. This was a bad idea though because thanks to said war and proceeding war women started making their own pickles and getting their own babies.

But now we are in an economic recovery and the original frosting company that got into industrial production for a while is now run by a board that is taking the company back in it's original direction and so long story short, I am really, really, needing some frosting right now.

Frugal Friday Food And Fun

So I realized my obsession isn't gardening necessarily, but the efficiency and cheapness of it all. All together it is homesteading, stockpiling, couponing, making your own clothes, a drive for sufficiency in living within our means.

So Frugal adventures as of late:

Regrowing celery from the store. I read about it in disbelief, started to believe a little with furthur reading and ran to the fridge to cut up the celery I had in there to start the experiment. It's working! My little celery heart has sprouted. How cool is that? If I grow that into just one more head of celery then I've saved over $1, and every dollar matters.

Couponing. Whoa. This is a big hairy complicated world. But I like it. It seems that you have to start where there are rewards, find an item with high rewards points and a coupon and start there, then you roll over those points and start saving. That would be my biggest piece of advice for anyone starting, start with one store, one or two items. If you make a big ol' strategy you may come out with $40 in gift cards and points but you spent $100 of things you weren't planning on buying to get there. The idea is to spend very little on those things you don't need right now.

Home Sauna. This just means I am from Texas and no 100 degree days in California are going to scare me. We do NOT use the air conditioner, nor will we start. We have a little kiddie pool so when the afternoon is unbearable we dip in that then lay in the hammock, California has a breeze. I can do 100 degrees with a breeze. Plus it doesn't stay 100. So our electric bills have all been under $60. In California. You can't buy a coke here for under $60