Not-For-Profit Living Well
The lifestyle we have chosen requires a commitment to certain things. Chief among these is a commitment to living cheaply where one can. Luckily, the MOWA is an exceedingly good bargain-hunter and excels at frugal living. She’s much better than I am.. Saturday was one of her greatest days ever. At 8:15am she left the house for a yard sale and returned a half-hour later with one of the great hauls ever:
That’s right. Even on the conservative end the MOWA got $138 of merchandise for $35. Oh, and she makes her own bagels, homemade pasta, baby food and gins cotton in our mud room. Okay, I made that last one up, but the other three are true. And did I mention the woman can bake? Sure. Cookies. Brownies. Blondies. Multi-layer cakes with intricate designs. (Note to MetroDad: My “Hector” is epic. Like the Iliad.)
To be honest, even if we weren’t living on the edge of our means, I think she would still do a lot of the same things. Especially the baby food which is just a lot more healthy when it’s not sitting on a shelf for six months before it goes in your child. It’s actually not that hard to do, but you do have to be really committed to keeping it up which the MOWA has done. Sure I help out now and again peeling some nectarines or running ice-cube trays full of sweet potatoes down to our second freezer in the basement. But for the most part it is the MOWA who makes it possible for me to keep the job I love and not deprive herself the dream of being a stay-at-home mom.
Oh, and she’s totally stoked for the MCPOM Semi-Annual Sale on October 1.
- Two Little Tikes ride-on toys. Retail value: $24 each
- One Kelty Kids backpack carrier. Retail value: $90- $160
That’s right. Even on the conservative end the MOWA got $138 of merchandise for $35. Oh, and she makes her own bagels, homemade pasta, baby food and gins cotton in our mud room. Okay, I made that last one up, but the other three are true. And did I mention the woman can bake? Sure. Cookies. Brownies. Blondies. Multi-layer cakes with intricate designs. (Note to MetroDad: My “Hector” is epic. Like the Iliad.)
To be honest, even if we weren’t living on the edge of our means, I think she would still do a lot of the same things. Especially the baby food which is just a lot more healthy when it’s not sitting on a shelf for six months before it goes in your child. It’s actually not that hard to do, but you do have to be really committed to keeping it up which the MOWA has done. Sure I help out now and again peeling some nectarines or running ice-cube trays full of sweet potatoes down to our second freezer in the basement. But for the most part it is the MOWA who makes it possible for me to keep the job I love and not deprive herself the dream of being a stay-at-home mom.
Oh, and she’s totally stoked for the MCPOM Semi-Annual Sale on October 1.
posted by Unknown at 2:41 PM
6 Comments:
If my wife could bake, I would be a grotesquely large and rotund man. Also...after getting fed up with the cost of prepared baby food, we're about to embark on some homemade baby food ourselves. Thanks for the recommendation. We'll be sure to check it you.
NFPD, my wife (Wood) is a not for profit mom. if we were relying on her salary, I just don't know how to do it (especially if we had twins). seriously, I'm amazed and impressed. Unfortunately, I sold my soul to corporate america in order to pay the san francisco rent.
but as a cheap-ass dutchman, I admire your wife's bargain hunting skills. My wife makes our baby food too, it just seems so much healthier that way.
You guys have great discipline. My wife said she was going to make lots of food for our son but it never really happened. One of the reasons is the insanely good quality and selection of baby food here in Sweden. It's simply amazing.
I'm convinced my wife only wanted to have a child so that she could buy more clothes. But she has has selected wiseley,mostly through Ebay. We have bought tons of stuff there and it has saved us lots of time and money. Not quite the bargain of a yard sale but still better than the store.
I really love the three words that follow "living cheaply": where we can. This is the crux we always find ourselves in. Food, clothes and some appliances tend to be on the expensive side. There is no point in getting stuff that you have to throw away after a year. But do you have the cash flow to invest in the expensive stuff?
Both my mum and my wife are extremely good at baking. I sometimes wonder if I should interpret something into that...
Why is that picture on the multiple's club website a fake? I mean, couldn't the same effect had been had using real twins? Did the twins have to have the same facial expression in order for us to *know* they were twins?
Sorry, it bugged me.
But Bravo! to the MOWA! I loves me some bargains.
And baked goods.
gotta love those bargains. I reckon there is a bargin node in womens brains that allow anything more then 5% off to come to their attention.
Well done on the baby food by the way. My Wifey cooked all of our girls food....she's hasn't had a tin yet! and she is all the better for it I reckon. She is very well behaved and smart.....oh my god is she smart......she will be outsmarting me soon.
I we knew half the crap that went into our food we would all be shocked!
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