Suddenly Frugal Blog

One of the pieces of advice you’ll often hear for lowering your electric bills is to use more electricity when rates are lower. Some people use “smart meters” to help gauge when power prices are down. Unfortunately, this advice has never applied to me. You see my electric company is PECO (also known as Exelon), [...]

Ask my husband about our dog, Buff (right), and here’s what he’ll tell you: “He was the most expensive free dog I’ve ever owned.” You see, we rescued Buff, then four years old, from a small dog rescue place in New Jersey. (As a golden retriever/cocker spaniel/beagle mix, 40-pound Buff was the biggest small dog [...]