We are participating in the I am Blissfully Domestic carnival and this is why we at A Frugal Housewife are Blissfully Domestic by shopping smarter and finding the best deals.

Whether you call them secondhand shops or thrift stores or simply say you shop at Goodwill, most of you have probably been to one secondhand store [...]

This picture shows what we’ve already picked up for my middle little sister. Total value here is around $130 dollars, total spent is around $35 plus $25 of spend it or loose it money in an HSA.
Here’s the breakdown:
All the first aid supplies - I had an HSA at my last job. It was one [...]

Anyone who knows me will tell you I love to read. When I move in a few weeks, the single largest category of things to be moved will be books. If I bought all the books I have new from a bookstore, I’d be living in a cardboard box by the river. [...]

Have you ever seen something at a garage sale and thought - “that would be perfect for…” or “that is exactly what I’ve been looking for” and then noticed that the price tag was $5 so you put it down and walked away without it?
For example - my daughter needed brown shoes (yes husband she [...]