Frugal Mama article in today's Washington Post

[Anonymous]

wow, i hope some of the PPs are not imparting their behaviour on their daughters. this is truly mean girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She will be hosting a regular segment on the Today show eventually, I am sure. She is a gorgeous doctors wife with a degree from Brown. The term frugal here is as it relates to middle class women who aspire to an upper middle class lifestyle. I am sure she is friends with someone at the Post who offered to write the piece on her behalf to help with promoting her. The consumer of morning news programs will love watching her in a J Crew twinset (ok, maybe its TSE....shhh) between segments on missing children, what bathing suits fit your body type, fun brunch recipes and a tornado that ripped through a small town in Iowa. She is living the American dream....

This is probably mostly right, but I'm going to guess that TLC or some other corp worked out something with the Post on her behalf. If you go to her site, it seems to have production values that surpass what you'd expect from a frugal, harried SAHM of four kids.

Hey, she had a good idea and she got there before the rest of us. Good for her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will be hosting a regular segment on the Today show eventually, I am sure. She is a gorgeous doctors wife with a degree from Brown. The term frugal here is as it relates to middle class women who aspire to an upper middle class lifestyle. I am sure she is friends with someone at the Post who offered to write the piece on her behalf to help with promoting her. The consumer of morning news programs will love watching her in a J Crew twinset (ok, maybe its TSE....shhh) between segments on missing children, what bathing suits fit your body type, fun brunch recipes and a tornado that ripped through a small town in Iowa. She is living the American dream....

This is probably mostly right, but I'm going to guess that TLC or some other corp worked out something with the Post on her behalf. If you go to her site, it seems to have production values that surpass what you'd expect from a frugal, harried SAHM of four kids.

Hey, she had a good idea and she got there before the rest of us. Good for her!

LOL! Well done, 1st PP. And to the second PP, I give you Jereme Irons in "Margin Call" as Lehman's former chair: "In this business you can either be smart or first, and I didn't get here by being smart."

[Anonymous]

I finally read the article. I think I took the article to be more of a Simple Living sort of thing. Yes you can have 4 children in this area, stay at home, and not be overwhelmed by material goods yet not so penny pinching that you don't ever enjoy anything that costs money. It was not a how to get out of debt or how someone not making enough can turn things around. I think it is more of a middle class family trying to find balance. It does remind me a little of someone joking about how rich people pay money to be surrounded by nature with no electronics etc and in other counties that is called life. When you don't have much, you dream about this life with consumer goods, nice home, vacations etc, then when you can do those things you find you aren't as happy as you thought you would be. I don't know if I could quit my job and grow an herb garden and make my own food (wait, wasn't that a movie with Diane Keaton?) but I do realize that it does take a certain deliberate planning to try to balance everything.

[Anonymous]

AnonymousIt does remind me a little of someone joking about how rich people pay money to be surrounded by nature with no electronics etc and in other counties that is called life. When you don't have much, you dream about this life with consumer goods, nice home, vacations etc, then when you can do those things you find you aren't as happy as you thought you would be. [/quote wrote:

Haha, this is a good point, and I think this is the crux of the matter which really struck a nerve with the rest of us and made a lot of us give a giant: