About Monroe on a Budget

Monroe on a Budget: Frugal Finances in Southeast Michigan is a blog featuring personal finance stories, public service announcements, frugal living tips, web resources and national and local headlines that are of interest to families on a budget in Monroe County, Mich. Your blog hostess is Paula Wethington and I’ll add my two cents along the way. If you’d like to know more about what local residents are dealing with financially, click on The challenges of life in Monroe, Mich.

I work as a Community Page reporter for The Monroe Evening News in Monroe, Mich., where my assignments include charity events, civic club reports and social page news. My expertise is not in business analysis, investment management or personal finance counseling; but in helping local families get the most out of their household budgets by pointing them to resources, discounts, information and services that are available in the community and on the Internet.

I contribute occasionally to the Behind the Headlines blog at BlogsMonroe and also help maintain the calendar database at MonroeTalks.

I’m 40 years old, married, and have a daughter in college. And I probably spend way too much time on the Internet.

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– Paula Wethington, Monroe, Mich., paula@monroenews.com

Downtown Monroe, looking along Front Street, near The Monroe Evening News office.

Photo by Bryan Bosch, posted at The Monroe Evening News photo gallery.