Comments on: Frugality Vs. Reality: Cash Flow and Your Home Business

By: MattT

MattT — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:16:28 +0000

@AmyL It was tough at first. Especially since we only got NBC and Fox for a couple of months until I got the roof antenna up. Now we only get networks. We still don’t who the the spokesfolks are, either, though. Moved outside that golden 18-to-35 demographic, you see.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:15:05 +0000

@ Michael – Thank you. It was my favorite too. I know you’re not supposed to laugh at your own jokes but honestly, I’m still laughing at that one. I would really suck at standup. I’d be giggling the whole time which would be murder for my street cred.

By: AmyL

AmyL — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:43:03 +0000

No cable??? You poor thing! How do you survive without HGTV and TLC and Discovery and National Geographic? LOLOLOL. We’ve gotten so we almost never look at network shows at all which totally cracks me up. Quite often the new spokesbabe or spokesdude for various products in the commercials causes Hubby and I to ask “Who the heck is that?”

I guess it’s not frugal to have cable, is it? :) Oh well.

By: Matt Tuley

Matt Tuley — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:20:37 +0000

@AmyL Well, there you go, then. I haven’t had cable for a while, so some of that stuff’s starting to get a bit fuzzy. Thanks for clarifying.

“I’m a pretty annoying nerd, eh?” Nah. It’s important to get the details right.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:53:10 +0000

“I can’t believe she fellated the priest in front of the entire congregation while he was baptizing a newborn baby!” OK – the entire post was worth that one line!

Of course actually I enjoyed the entire post. And I agree. Especially about razors. They will rip up your face. Same goes for other things that touch your body – like toilet paper, tissues, and medicines.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:45:11 +0000

Just catching up on blogs today ….. pick & choose your frugalities carefully. Like the time my husband said we could save money by cutting out the weeknight bottle(s) of wine ….. but, then again, therapy sessions are more expensive than wine so, um, no. :-)

By: Jay F.H.

Jay F.H. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:28:55 +0000

I once spent $14 on a small container of almonds. But they were “premium” almonds. So, I totally know what you’re talking about.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:04:02 +0000

Annoying, no. Nerd, yes.

By: AmyL

AmyL — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:46:37 +0000

@Matt: The MythBusters (episode 69) test in question appears to have been on incandescent bulbs, not CFLs. The question at the time was how much energy is drawn at the point of turning it on, and the conclusion is that only a fraction of a second’s worth of energy is drawn so it’s more efficient to switch them off. Fluorescent tube lights draw 23 seconds worth of power, and the analysis says it’s better not to be flipping them on and off. CFLs are not mentioned. I happened to do a couple of blog posts about the subject (the point being that it’s important not to just believe everything we’re told) recently, and nowhere did anyone refute the part about leaving CFLs on for 15 minutes thing. I can dig up references if you like. :)

I’m a pretty annoying nerd, eh?

By: Matt Tuley

Matt Tuley — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:00:13 +0000

@AmyL I sem to remember someone…Mythbusters?…finding that time to be a lot shorter. Like 30 seconds? If only there was some way I could look up something like that, some readily available information resource…

@AmyL and James It’s the plain ol’ powder stuff. I just had some of yesterday and was impressed by its tastiness. Then again, I do use a little (and by “little” I mean “quite a lot”) extra butter. But, I’m willing to concede my tastesmay have been skewed somewhat by not having had the Kraft stuff for quite some time.

So I will get some Kraft and have a mac’n'cheese-off soon. And I will post the results here or on my as-yet-unlaunched-but-more-and-more-obviously-necessary business blog. (And just watch those clients roll in!)

(I also feel it’s necessary to add that mac’n'cheese is not the pinnacle of my culinary tastes. Just wanted to make that clear.)