Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Being frugal is also about spending your time wisely.
Our home doesn’t have a video game console, and there are no plans to buy one even as our kids approach their teen years, the prime age for gaming. That being said, parents who want […]
How to (mostly) keep your kids off video games Read More »
Where can you spend nearly one hour of your time with a large group of people and have nobody in the room check their phone? Not a gym. Not a grocery store. Certainly not a
The one public space where using a phone is taboo Read More »
This past July was Frugalmatic’s four-year anniversary, and I’ve been meaning to write a retrospect post about some of my biggest feats and flops from the past four years. (Plus, I couldn’t pass up the
Feats and flops over four years of Frugalmatic Read More »
As someone who’s enjoyed using the original Sunbeam F1 phone the past couple years, I was curious whether the new F1 Pro would offer a noticeably different experience. In short, it does. The form factor
Sunbeam F1 Pro Review: Great upgrade from the original F1 Read More »
Many parents feel like they have little choice over whether to give their teenager a smartphone. If they don’t, they fear, their child will somehow lose important social connections. Timothy Carney, a father of six
How one dad keeps smartphones out of his kids’ hands Read More »
If you’re a Gen Xer and grew up watching “Little House on the Prairie,” it’s almost impossible to watch the TV show today without being hit by a wave of nostalgia. The show, which aired
How to put more ‘Little House’ into your life Read More »
If that device in your pocket is a dumb phone, you may wonder if carrying it makes you a “Luddite.” Being a Luddite is not a compliment, of course. It suggests you’re “behind the times.” Having
What the Luddites can teach us about digital technology Read More »
Back in 2015, as sales of the new iPhone 6 boomed and Apple CEO Tim Cook declared his company had sold 74 million phones in just three months, Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang decided that
Interview with Kaiwei Tang, co-creator of the Light Phone Read More »
As parents, we naturally seek out expert advice on tech. We want to know the “best way” to raise our children. It’s understandable that we’re inclined to defer to the judgement of experts because they are,
Expert advice on tech often comes too late for parents Read More »
Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were considered to be a harmful influence on children? Child-advocacy groups in the 1970s and ’80s argued for banning shows, such as G.I. Joe and He-Man, because they served as
Interview with Dr. Susan Linn, creative play advocate Read More »
