My Frugal Fraud Confessions – Part 1

I had been debating on whether or not to send in my own frugal fraud confessions, but then I realized that I probably had too many.  Since becoming pregnant, I’ve really slowed down my posting frequency and that is for two reasons.

1. Quite frankly, I’m extremely tired a lot of the time and have stopped using some of my more drastic frugal methods that I’ve written about in the past.  Simply put, I don’t want to be a hypocrite.
2. I’ve incorporated the frugal mindset into several areas of our life and don’t have to think about it so much anymore – and so now I have started focusing more on making extra money.

So, this baby will likely be born in the next 9 to 30 days (I’m sore and exhausted!), my whole household is sick with a horrible hacking cough and fevers (youngest is asleep and oldest is playing with dad) and so I will take this time to share some of my own frugal fraud confessions.

• When I’m really tired, I eat out and lately that has been a couple of times a week.  Going to the grocery store has become a marathon event and sometimes I forget to prepare the meal in advance.  I’ve yet to come up with a way to make a 8 hour crockpot meal in 30 minutes.
• I drink soda and buy bottled water. – Oh the horrors.  I cut out caffeine early on and then slowly started drinking it again.  I know how horrible it is, but it really is an addiction.  And the bottled water?  Well, I have never been good at remembering to filter water and I need something portable.
• I no longer use the foaming hand soap – it became too much of a hassle.  Now I just buy the economy refill and so I guess I’m still saving money.
• The homemade dishwasher detergent and homemade disinfectant wipes went to the trash.  I couldn’t get the dishwasher soap to dissolve no matter what I did to it and the disinfectant wipes started dissolving.  Scary.
• My  name is Lisa and I don’t shop at CVS much anymore.  It was fun while it lasted and I got some really great deals, but the amount of time and energy I had to put into it wasn’t working out for me.  Plus, most of the time they would be out of stock on the deals I wanted and it really became a waste of time and gas.

Ok, there’s my first five confessions – make sure to stay tuned for my next set of confessions coming soon to a blog post near you.