Welcome to the Wild Frugalist

Let's face it, friends, unless you’re a part of the 1%, you and everyone you know is living on a "limited income." It's limited because you can't BOTH buy absolutely everything you might want, at any price, AND still have enough left over to eat regularly and live indoors. 

On the other hand, your time is limited too. Both in the sense of "If my train is late getting home from work I won't be able to BOTH cook dinner AND re-binge "The Gilmore Girls - A Year in the Life" on Netflix, AND in the sense of "Look at the news. Should I even try to plan any activities past this weekend?"

And saving while spending can take time. How does one find a happy medium where money wasteage is at a minimum and yet one can still have fun now, and maintain the hope of future fun? 

This is where I come in:The Wild Frugalist. I will teach you to tear through life like a hedonist on a budget.          

Today's tip from the wild world of extravagant frugality, is for all you skincare product fans.  It is: The Ordinary.  They sell very inexpensive, plain labeled versions of a variety of skincare products and also a few makeup items. 

The gimmick is that each product features one or more popular chemical or organic ingredients that you generally have to buy fancy, expensive "name" products to obtain. For instance this Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 product, is apparently "hydrating, ultra pure, and vegan."

It costs ....wait for it... $6.80.  As opposed to a similar product you might find in the drugstore for $25 or way more than that in the fancy skincare counter of a department store. So far the reviews I'm reading about it are all good.  

I'm about to try a few items so I'll report back when I get them. 

And so I leave you for now, my fellow Wild Frugalists, with this thought: “Find a way to live it up  a little every day, because, let’s face it, this whole thing could collapse tomorrow, or it could go on for years."