Almost Frugal

Almost Frugal

Blog URL: http://almostfrugal.com/

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I post as: Kelly from Almost Frugal.

Blog start date: December 27, 2007

About the Blog: My blog used to be known as My Small Cents. Now it's Almost Frugal...but not quite! It's the age old story: an American girl goes on a university exchange program to France, falls in love with a handsome French frog, and lives happily ever after in the land of a thousand cheeses... What the storybooks forget to mention is that student loans follow you everywhere!

I'm a thirty-something American living in a small city in the French Alps. I have three kids, three cats, and one French husband. Oh, and one mountain of debt (~€60,000) that we're trying to dig our way out of, one small cent at a time. ‘Almost Frugal’ is how we live our life. We watch our pennies and centimes but like to live well too.

Approx post frequency: daily, including a carnival and link love round-up on Saturdays.

Blog Categories (on this wiki): Personal Finance Bloggers, Frugal Bloggers, Debt and Credit Bloggers

Specializations: I talk a lot about frugality and debt management, setting goals and then keeping them. Not to mention the differences of French and American attitudes towards debt, money... well just about everything! This blog isn't about advice; other bloggers do that much better than I could ever hope to do. Think of me as an aspiring Dooce, but in France, broke and with an infinitesimally smaller number of readers!

Highlights: Twenty-Five Frugal Things I Do, Being A SAHM In France , January, Or, The Financial Trainwreck , What My Parents Have Taught Me About Money

Memberships/Other Sites and Projects: I'm a member of lots of networks: The Money Hackers Network, The Snowflake Revolution [], Frugal Hackers  and Etsy Sellers Who Blog. I also have an Etsy shop: Kllycat's Babycat Goods, and I'd be delighted if you dropped by!