Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
Wow. Sometimes people seriously go to extremes to be frugal. And honestly, the woman I am about to tell you about, did it more for the principal of it being her money, but she fought for over 10 years about 14 cents. Is that not the craziest thing ever?
It all started over a cheap phone plan . . . → Read More: A Case of Extreme Frugality
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
Anyone who has followed me on my blog for any length of time, knows I have a few picky kids, and I also happen to have the pickiest kid I’ve ever met in my life. So do you have a picky eater in your family? If you do, there are a few tips that can help. . . . → Read More: 10 Tips for Picky Eaters
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
I figured with Adgitize I finally found the silver lining. If you read the previous post, about how I won the grand prize for this blog back in September ’09 and I just discovered it yesterday, then you realized I didn’t have high hopes for Adgitize to still award me the prize money. Honestly, it is . . . → Read More: A Happy Ending
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
After being completely aggravated by my hosting company and the merging of the hosting accounts (which didn’t quite work the way it was supposed to), I had to restore everything on my blog. While I was restoring everything … suddenly my “links” updated and I could see who was saying what about my posts. So I . . . → Read More: Story of My Life…
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
Unfortunately, in a hosting combination process, I wound up losing everything from two of my four blogs. I am working to get everything restored, so please be patient.
Leave me a comment to say hello too – I lost my comments also . . . → Read More: Slight Issues
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
After a most disturbing experience with my ridiculous Keurig KCup coffemaker that I purchased not even a month and a half ago, I had to do something to rectify my lack of coffee situation. Face it, I’m an addict. Must have coffee. Cannot survive without coffee.
I acted as quickly as I could, and I went armed . . . → Read More: Product Review: Black & Decker Home – 12 Cup Programmable Coffeemaker – Model CM5050
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
Very excited!! I applied to be the examiner.com St. Louis Frugal Family Examiner after noticing that the previous writer had not published anything since April of last year. I waited for awhile before applying to see if she would post again, but she never did. I took the chance about two weeks ago and went ahead . . . → Read More: Examiner.com – St. Louis Frugal Family Examiner
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
If you have been following me for any length of time, one of the first things you learn, is how much I absolutely adore my coffee. I mean, LIVE for my coffee. Like, so much when the kids play Whoonu with me, they all pray they get the ‘coffee‘ card for me. Well, with that knowledge, . . . → Read More: Keurig Elite Brewing System Review
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
Every once in awhile, I do sit down and find myself completely at a block as to what to write. It isn’t that I don’t have great every day fodder to include on my blogs, but most of the time it probably isn’t funny to anyone but our family.
So I’m always on the look out for . . . → Read More: The Ad Master – Article Ideas
Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook
For some reason, I have never really cared for corn bread, until my ex-husband, who is from the South, introduced me to his grandmother’s sweet cornbread recipe. Now I love it, but only if its made this way. This is a moist, cake like recipe that is perfect with soups, stews and chili’s.
Our family loves to . . . → Read More: Moist Sweet Cornbread Recipe