About
How to Contact Me: (Please do!) kaylarevae [at] yahoo [dot] com
About Me & My Blog:
I am a 2011 graduate of Iowa State University. I earned a degree in Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies with an endorsement in Health.
I am so happy to have found a job that fits all of my interests! I teach culinary skills and health/life skills to high school students.
I started my blog in 2008 when I chronicled my life as a poor college student. Now, working as a teacher, my thrifty ways are helping me pay of student debt faster.
My quest in life is to bring America back to thrift!
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Kayla, when you starting blogging, how did you go about getting the sponsors on the right side of your page? How did you choose which ones and how did you contact them? I am designing a webpage and newsletter with thrifty/frugal ideas as well and am thinking about blogging too. I appreciate any info you can offer. Thanks so much!
-Georgina Kalwak
I started out with Google Ads, which anyone can do, just go to Google to learn more. Just recently I started using BlogHer ads. You can get on the wait list by going to http://blogher.com, click on “BlogHer Ads,” scroll to the bottom, click “for bloggers,” scroll to the bottom, and click “HERE” to join the wait list.
Send me a link to your site when it’s up, I’d love to read it!
i would like to subscribe to your site
i nwould like to subscribe to your website. i got it off the frugal list and i love it. I have family in iowa so it really hit home. thank you . nan edmondson
Great blog! I like your articles and ideas. Keep up the good work!
Like you, I live a frugal lifestyle out of choice. I have a very good job and can afford many things. One year, I spent $3k to $4k a month on junk that just cluttered my house. So I finally put a stop to all the “stuff” and now save most of my income. I’ve never been happier with my file. Instead of “stuff”, I have significant emergency funds, savings, and investments…..all because I chose to live frugally.
Over the weekend I tried a wine frappe/slush sample. You mixed their dry product (d’Marieinc.com) with a bottle of wine and that same bottle filled with water, put it in a freezer bag, mush together and freeze. It took a $10 package of their stuff to tranform one bottle of wine. Of course I thought to myself how can I make this at home? (Kinda like the beer bread in box craze.) I need a home ec major and thought of you. So what do you think? The best I can gleen online is tea or lemonade mix. I thought maybe jello. I’d appreciate your ideas Kayla.
I’m trying to knit your anthropologie inspired bobble cable ascot. If you could review it, I believe there is and error in row 12, and I can’t make row 32 work. I would appreciate it if you could review the pattern and tell me where I’m going wrong.