Atlanta's Frugal Mom

The end of August has always proven a little bittersweet for me.  A new school year begins at this time.  As a nerdy student, and later as a teacher, I greatly anticipated the excitement and wonder that a new school year held.  However, a new school year means summer is coming to a close.  Summer has always been my favorite time of the year, filled with whimsy and carefree wonder. Also at the end of August is the beginning of a new college football season.  Okay, this is just plain sweet.  Nothing bitter about this, unless the  Dawgs  are off to a bad start. As August winds down, there are more personal ramifications for me, as my birthday comes at this time of year.  Perhaps most of us still enjoy that childlike wonder and excitement in the  idea  of our birthday.  However, as we accumulate more and more birthdays, many  see them as just another slap-in-the-face reminder that we are getting older, and-infact- have more good years behind us than in front of us.  (I’m not saying I...

I'm just going to go ahead and put the blog out there for you all to see and judge and snub.....  I'm too much of a perfectionist, and if I wait until all is just so, it may never be out there.....  So, here goes! **Just be kind, and remember that it is a MAJOR work in progress at the moment.**

Okay, here's where I'm probably going to stray from the herd a bit, as I see many fellow Money-Saving-Mommy-Bloggers posting to the contrary here...  But I strongly feel that what's being done in most instances is purely a marketing ploy to (duh!) get you in to their store, and to (double duh!) buy their products!  The current marketing trend is to advertise for "free", very cheap deals, or even "money-makers" when paired with coupons.