Introduce Yourself

[Tree0164]

Welcome to the board! It is a great great place here!

[crosses]

Welcome! This is a fun site and the people in the forums are a lot of help. Glad to see you as a new part of the family.

[jeffrey]

Welcome to the site and our little part of the Internet. It's great to see more and more people finding us. We hope we can provide interesting and useful information to help you save as much as you'd like. I think you'll find this group a friendly and helpful bunch.

[Momtwo]

Welcome! I found this site a few days ago myself and am loving reading everyones advice and journals.

[terry1156]

Welcome everyone. It's always great to see new members find their way here. I look forward to getting to know you better on these boards.

[miclason]

Hello! I'm Marissa, I'm from El Salvador. I'm a single mom, trying to "get up" after surviving a divorce, becoming a single mom, losing my job and supporting my parents (who had no income at all for 2 years, no insurance, no medical coverage, nothing!) ...I was raised with the idea that money is to "spend it while you have it", yet, somehow, I used to save my money and always made sure I had a little "cushion"...then life happened and now I'm fighting a debt that is twice as much as I make in a year!...I come to this site for new ideas and, also, for inspiration and company (most of my coworkers live in a different world, financially speaking, they are all young, single, not paying rent, which means the money they make -and I'm the assistant, so they all make more than I do! - can be used whichever way they choose (some invest, some just spend!)...my salary basically goes into paying debts and the very basics: food, rent, childcare, medical care...

[Momtwo]

Hello,

As my sign on shows, I have two children. They are sons and are both happily married to 2 very special DIL's!

DH and I retired early. Me at 50; he at 54. We built our dream retirement home 2 years prior to retirement. And then when DH retired we moved cross country to enjoy the sunshine. Where we live, we never see snow except on TV and I like it that way.

We love being retired and doing our own thing.

Momtwo

[akaivyleaf]

Hi,

I'm Sharon from Atlanta Georgia. I'm a state worker by day, owner of a mortuary and embalmer by night. I am an event planner so on the weekend I'm either doing an event of some sort of a funeral. I used to be a K-5th grade teacher (for eight years) but quit when a 1st grader pulled a knife on me. Not that I was scared, well I was... but I thought it best that I remove myself from that situation before some mother ended up childless.

I'm cheap...way past frugal. I believe in spending money wisely and getting the most for every penny I spend.

I'm single with no children and no prospects at this time. I hang out here to get tips on how to further the stretch of my dollars.

[sydney]

Hello

I a newbie here, love the site lots of interesting ideas and discussions.

I am a SAHM to four very young children, and am always doing my best to stretch the household dollars.

Thank you for a friendly and informative site

[jeffrey]

Welcome aboard. It's great to see new faces here and we hope we can provide quality money saving information to all.

[FrugalTexan75]

Hi! My name is Laura. I am an elementary teacher, single, with no kids. I found this site via a reccomendation of a poster on one of the Frugal chatboards I read daily. I have dealt with a lot of ups and downs financially, and am ready to keep it to the ups!


Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura

[amomof4]

I am a sahm of 2 girls, 13 & 14. My husband lives in a different state as he is trying to save up enough money to move here. Long Story. We live 14 miles from town on 5 acres with very few nieghbors. We have had a milking cow, a horse, chickens, & a rabbit. But now we just have dogs, cats, & composting worms. It is gross to change the worm bin. It looks like some horror movies prop with all those squiggly things. When we had the cow, we made our own ice cream, butter, & cheese. That was nice.

I found the site from a referal on another list I'm on.

[jeffrey]

Somebody must be spreading the word (hear Nate and Jeffrey cheering wildly in the background) because we've seen an increase in the number of new members signing up. We're glad to have you here and hope we can continue to provide useful information on saving.

[CherylOK]

I'm a former first grade teacher who is now a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom! I'm also a single, adoptive mom, so adoption (international and domestic) is a favorite topic of mine. I love to see God put families together through adoption.

I moved to the mountains of Arkansas 2 years ago. When I moved to my own land and home a year ago, my frugal life kicked into full gear. All the tips I've learned make our lifestyle much more enjoyable. I think the nice term for our life is "homesteading"! LOL!

Hi! My name is Kris and I'm engaged to be married this October 1, 2005!! Like everything else in my life, I want to keep costs down. In fact, I'm hoping to stick to a $5000.00 budget. However , I live paycheck to paycheck and don't know if this will be possible. I guess I'd better start saving soda cans (5 cents for each returned can!! ). anyway, this site seems to be really good, I just need to go back to work now, so I'll have to check it out more in depth later Thanks!!

[JLP]

My name is Jeffrey. I go by JLP. I found this website today and was immediately interested. I am a fee-only financial planner in Texas.

I look forward to getting aquainted with everyone here.

JLP

[amomof4]

Jeffrey, I have been spreading the word on the Prairie Homemaker site and the group called Frugal-Folks-Life group through yahoo groups. Heehee btw, I would recommend both.

[jeffrey]

Good to see more and more people finding their way here each day. Thanks for spreading the word...it's always apreciated. Both Nate and I have been excited the way things have been shaping up this past month.

[nate]

Originally Posted by jeffrey

Both Nate and I have been excited the way things have been shaping up this past month.

Understatement

[JLP]

I put a link to this site on my blog. I'm not getting a lot of traffic yet, but am working to build it up. Anyway, this is a nice site.

JLP