Marla Jo Fisher
Reporter

Marla Jo Fisher

Marla Jo Fisher was a workaholic hard news reporter before she adopted two children from foster care at age 46, picked up a scruffy dog along the way and somehow managed to keep them all alive, at least so far. She now writes the Frumpy Middle-Age Mom humor column that appears in the Orange County Register weekly. Due to her status as the cheapest person alive, she also writes about deals and bargains for the Register, including her Cheapo Travel column which also runs in newspapers around the country. When she's not having a nervous breakdown, she's usually traveling somewhere cheaply and writing about it.

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Yes, these people had oceans of money, more than they even knew what to do with, which is why they hired my bosses to invest it for them. But few actually seemed happy, nor did they appear to appreciate the luxuries that most of us would give our eyeteeth for.

Frumpy Mom: I was lucky to grow up poor

Yes, these people had oceans of money, more than they even knew what to do with, which is why they hired my bosses to invest it for them. But few...