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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4 kids in a SFH in DC and living expenses a lot less than that of the neighbors, that is frugal in my opinion[/quote]

Even if the neighbors are all investment bankers, he's a doctor and she does stuff for TLC, so it's all relative. I can see why some people, like some of the PPs who say they earn 1/4 of what this family does and for whom SAH isn't even an option, would find it a little off-base. I liked the blog for other reasons. But like other PPs here, I would not go there for financial advice because frugality, after some income point, doesn't just mean expenses equal income, it also means saving.

My sense is that the blog has morphed over the years from "frugal" to more "lifestyle" and "taste," although I haven't done the archeology and gone back to the earliest blog posts. While he was interning and doing training, they probably really were living on a tight budget and maybe earlier on the blog there are some good tips. Now that he's working as a doctor, and she's working too, the blog has switched to lifestyle - upper middle class choices like DVDs over cable (like my own family!), recipes for quick deserts, and how to travel on planes with 4 kids.

I don't think most people here would have a problem with the blog if she took "frugal" out of the title and called it "Cool Mama" like somebody else suggested, or "DC Mama" or something like that.  I think I pretty much share her tastes, in fact I posted above that she looks like someone I could hang out with. There's gotta be a market for this blog, I just don't think "frugal" is it.[/quote]

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