I love beautiful things.  Even more, I love inexpensive beautiful things.  One of my favorite lazy weekend activities is to prowl around the “bricka-brack” section of local thrift stores.  I collect unique pottery, blown glass jars and vases, and any other cool thing that captures my fancy.  The best thing about it?  Each piece usually [...]

The other day I was making cupcakes and I ran out of regular sized cupcake wrappers.  I made a few cupcakes by pouring dough straight into the [greased] tin cups but I really didn’t like the extra grease.  So I took some parchment paper and cut it into large squares–maybe 5″ x 5″ and arranged [...]

Enough about curtains!  This is one of my recent and absolute favorite Savvy Mav tips.  This week I was working on booking a coast-to-coast flight that wouldn’t completely send me into the oblivion of debt.  I tried looking up an old voucher I had for $100 and found that it expired just two weeks ago: [...]

So I had forgotten that the one other thing I needed for my new little place was curtains for the huge window in my living/bedroom space.  I’m on the first floor and there is a lovely little garden patio right out said window.  The bright and shining morning sun streams right through this window as [...]

I love Ross. I don’t know if you have ever had an encounter with Ross but it is one of those stores like Marshalls or TJMaxx where you get name-brand goods for not-so-name-brand prices.  They have items ranging from clothing to accessories to bed to bath to kitchen.  They are the kind of store that [...]

The other day a friend and I were washing dishes after dinner.  I washed out a ziploc bag and set in on the rack to dry and he laughs and says, “Oh I see, you just a baller on a budget!”  I looked quizzically at him not being up to par with my Urban Dictionary [...]