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May is Mental Health Awareness Month May happens to be Mental Health Awareness month and April marked the ninth anniversary of Frugalwoods! Given that confluence, it seems like the perfect t...

https://frugalwoods.com/2023/05/09/i-still-have-depression-and-anxiety/

As I SHARED LAST WEEK, April is the NINTH anniversary of Frugalwoods! To celebrate, I’m typing down memory lane with reflections on some of my most influential old posts. Nine years is a lon...

https://frugalwoods.com/2023/04/11/revisiting-my-2015-beauty-manifesto-what-i-got-right-what-i-got-wrong/

I started a clothing-focused mini-series over the summer wherein I managed to devote two ENTIRE posts to the topic of just me and my clothing alone: MY EVER-EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP WITH MY CLOTH...

https://frugalwoods.com/2022/11/30/how-ive-saved-thousands-of-dollars-on-clothes-for-my-kids/

Last month I shared a journey through the recesses of my brain, or at least, the clothing and appearance-related recesses of my brain. If you haven’t read that post yet, I recommend you GO T...

https://frugalwoods.com/2022/09/29/the-clothes-i-wear-for-comfort-and-confidence/

I have a hectic relationship with clothing. In my 20s and early 30s, I worshipped it. I stuffed the closets of our various rental apartments with beaded slip-on loafers I bought at an outdoor ...

https://frugalwoods.com/2022/08/19/my-ever-evolving-relationship-with-my-clothes/

Oh yes, we’re going there today. The “pink tax” refers to the fact that women often pay more for goods and services marketed to them. A 2018 study found that, “…women pay as much as ...

https://frugalwoods.com/2019/09/18/reader-suggestions-on-how-to-fight-the-pink-tax-from-birth-control-to-bras/

I was pregnant or breastfeeding for four years. Starting in March 2015, when I got pregnant with Kidwoods, straight through to April 2019, when I weaned a 14-month-old Littlewoods. There was a...

https://frugalwoods.com/2019/09/05/how-im-learning-to-love-my-body-find-a-middle-ground-and-buy-clothes-without-regret/

Today, I’ve gathered sage advice from Frugalwoods readers about frugal beauty routines because I’ve always been stumped by beauty routines. When I turned thirteen, I felt like I should do�...

https://frugalwoods.com/2019/04/12/reader-suggestions-beauty-routines-of-the-frugal-and-fabulous/

I cut my hair. A lot of my hair. Most of my hair, in fact. Yes indeed, today I am writing about hair. I will cover other thrilling topics such as the sunk cost fallacy and paralysis by analysi...

https://frugalwoods.com/2019/04/02/sunk-costs-paralysis-by-analysis-and-why-i-finally-cut-my-hair-short/

Mr. Frugalwoods needed glasses. After years of competing over who could discern distant signs on roadtrips first, age finally caught up with my mountain/computer man. Both of his vocations�...

https://frugalwoods.com/2017/04/25/how-we-bought-inexpensive-awesome-glasses-online/

Today I mark a frugal milestone: my clothing ban is over! Well, it’s not actually over, it was simply suspended a tad. On January 1, 2014, I decided to stop buying clothes. And I mean fully...

https://frugalwoods.com/2017/02/15/why-i-broke-my-three-year-clothes-buying-ban/

We begin today with a satirical rant, which will, I promise, eventually wend its way around to some possibly useful advice.  Used stuff is gross. I mean think about it, someone else sat on...

https://frugalwoods.com/2016/09/02/the-myth-of-the-gross-used-things/