Welcome to Ever So Thrifty!! A blog I developed for myself, as well as others, to compare notes on our various forms of “thriftiness.”
I’d like to believe that I’m a nice, young girl living in Oklahoma. I love God, my boyfriend, my family, my friends, my dogs, our HOME and ALL projects! Really…all projects – crafts, home projects, decorating, cooking, crocheting, sewing, gardening and most of all, the art of saving. See, I tend to be a tad on the frugal side. Okay, slash that… I’m EXTREMELY frugal. But I blame it on the economy, my penny-pinching dad, my income, my boyfriend’s income… okay screw it. I’m frugal because I’m frugal. I hate spending money on an item when I know I could have either made it for less, or used a coupon which would have made it cheaper. It bugs me. REALLY bugs me. I could have a problem. But it’s MY problem…and I kind of like it. I can stretch a dollar like no one’s bizz-nazz.
So a little about myself, I’m a 20-something year old and I graduated from THE University of Oklahoma a little over two years ago with a degree that I loved. At the time. After graduated I was immediately offered an office job, which I took (and still have), which gave me a sense of financial security.
This financial-security-feeling sort of drugged me and I did the most reasonable next step in life… If you are, at all, thinking “get married,” then you clearly do not know me. At all. Nope, I bought a house. A house that blinded both me and my handy-dandy boyfriend because it offered a very promising vision. A house we believed (and still believe!) could someday be more than a house, but our HOME.
Our house is the same age as us. Really. The year it was born, so were we. Though we are all the same age, Boyfriend and I treat this house as if it were our baby. Our dogs are treated the same. So it’s okay if you consider us to be parents… we kind of are. Emphasis on kind of.
Yep, the dogs are in bed. Under the covers. MY covers.
Long story short is that we started this house project with a whole lot of enthusiasm and what we thought was knowledge and skill. Little did we know. Really. The last year has really been an adventure for us, but we learn new things and start new projects ALL THE TIME. This blog is sort of our journey. Our ways of pinching pennies, decorating and designing our home, and figuring out how to make it our own. There will be a WHOLE lot of DIY obsession, and little tid bits about our lives along the way.
I promise not to filter…you will see it all including the GOOD, the BAD, and even the UGLY. You will see our adventures and our misadventures throughout these projects. So please feel free to give us advice, words of encouragement or money. Haha, not really. But really. We’d love to know what you think!
Let’s be friends! (Don’t worry we don’t have to be Facebook official…yet) 🙂
Ever So Thrifty 