Mar 23 2009
I have been a terrible frugal friend, I know. I’m so sorry, my friendly frugal folk! I’m in the midst of planning and executing a move to the beautiful city of Atlanta, Georgia and I promise that I haven’t forgotten you; I’ve just been caught up in a whirlwind of real world activities that are getting in the way of my personal blogging time!
Love to you all!
Michael
Dec 01 2008
It is the first day of December, so I thought I’d start the holiday month off with a bang with a bit of a contest.
It is really quite simple to enter, all you have to do is to respond to this post with a unique money saving idea. Tell the Frugal Living Today readers one thing that you do to save money and you can be rewarded!
Your idea could be simple or complex; it might save you pennies or hundreds, even thousands of dollars.
The prize for this contest is a $10 CVS gift card sent directly to you from yours truly. The prize will be awarded based on creativity and uniqueness of the idea you post, so don’t just write down the first thing that comes to mind.
Contest ends on December 7, 2008 at 12:00 midnight Central Standard Time
Enter as often as you like and encourage your friends to do the same!
NECESSARY LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This contest is operated entirely by Michael Nolan for Frugal Living Today and has no affiliation with the Today.com Network , its owners, employees or affiliates. Contest limited to participants in the United States.
Nov 04 2008
Those readers from outside the United States will please excuse this unrelated post.
To my elibigible voting brothers and sister:
Today in this country we will elect a new President and regardless of which candidate is chosen, this will be a first in the U.S. with either an African American black man* assuming the highest post in our country or a woman assuming the role of Vice President. We are making history and it is your responsibility to get up, get out and go vote today.
As I told some friends recently who said they were still undecided, ‘vote your conscience, unless you don’t have one then vote my conscience.’ The lines will probably be long but if you aren’t “free, white and 21″ you shouldn’t take this day for granted because it wasn’t all that long ago that neither women nor people of color could not vote in this country at all.
Now one of them is going to be representing us in Washington D.C.
Sep 11 2008
I hope you will excuse the departure from my normal content but I am taking 9/11 off from work as I do every year, and I wanted my readers to understand why.
If there was ever a day in my life that I wish I could forget, it would be no different than the thoughts of countless others, September 11, 2001.
On that day I lived in New York City and I watched the events unfold in my own back yard, yet even having a front row seat to such a horribile scene, I couldn’t help but to somehow be caught in a sense the I was watching some movie clip.
Unfortunately those events were real and I was a very real part of them.
This photo shows the contents of a small bag that sits propped against my desk every day. It contains several local newspapers from that time period, a stethoscope that I used when I assisted with triage on the site at Ground Zero, a medical admission slip for one of the patients I worked with and a glove that belonged to one of the firefighters who lost his life while battling to save others.
That firefighter and over forty other people that I knew well and called friend died on 9/11/01, along with thousands of others.
In the aftermath of that tragedy, the world came together and in a unified voice proclaimed “We are ALL Americans Now”. Perhaps no better example I could find of this idea is shown in this video clip:
May God continue to bless us all.
Sep 01 2008
I do hope you will all forgive me for taking a break today from posting about Frugal Living in order to talk about what I believe to be a more pressing issue - the devastation of Hurricane Gustav.
About two months ago I was blessed to have the opportunity to visit New Orleans. Because of a novel I am writing I asked to be escorted on a short tour of the Lower Ninth Ward but I was in no way prepared for what I would see there.
Aug 09 2008
PREEMPTIVE NOTE FROM MICHAEL: I may draw some criticism here, but I cannot for the life of me understand this story and I may end up preaching a little bit as a result, so bear with me.
I’m not the type to attack people when they are down - far from it - but this NPR story was one of the most poorly executed and poorly considered news pieces I’ve heard in years and if you will bear with me for a moment, I’d like to explain why.
Aug 08 2008
Some days it seems that I am fighting a never ending battle against the people around me who can’t seem to grasp the concept of frugal living.
