Welcome!

Welcome to my newest brainchild: Mere Frugality. Obviously, the title is a word play off of one of my favorite authors...and, even, more obviously, the blog is about frugality. Yup. I thrive on the obvious. :)

Ever since the start of our marriage, I have sought to find ways to fine-tune our budget and learn to best handle the few resources we have. Life circumstances have forced us to be frugal far beyond our comfort zone, and it has been my goal the past few months to learn how to cut corners the best way possible. Due to some personal circumstances, our already tight budget just took a 75% cut. Yup. It's gonna hurt.

However, I won't dwell on that. The point is that there are parts of frugality that are, actually, kind of fun. What I've learned during tough times will hopefully actually help us when we get on our feet enough to start tackling our debt and our dreams.

So...here we go. This blog is mostly for me, but anyone is welcome to follow along and get some ideas.