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| My Frugal Life: Learning from the Tightwad Gazette
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 I started getting serious about being frugal when my husband lost his job. I checked out all the money saving books I could find at the library and by far the most helpful was "The Tightwad Gazette. It was written in the 1990's but is still very helpful.
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| Posted on: 12/02/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Big Savings With Water Heater Timer
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 As a single mother in 1980, necessity became the mother of invention for me. I had a house built with passive solar windows, and all electric heat, kitchen and water heater.
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| Posted on: 11/25/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Saving Money and Water
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I have lived a frugal life all my life. I am 1 of 11 children so we had to learn to save almost everything from food scraps to water saving. Now I have 4 children. Every summer, I place a bucket in the shower so we can still water my plants.
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| Posted on: 11/18/2009 | 3 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Tried And True Ways To Save
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I am naturally frugal by nature and often complain that there are NO new frugal tips and hints. These are not new or difficult ideas BUT they do work for me and are tried and true ways to save money!
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| Posted on: 11/11/2009 | 5 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: $20,000 Experiment in Happiness a Failure
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We all seek joy and happiness. That seems to be the very purpose of our being. But in the U.S. especially, we continue to believe happiness comes from things we buy, whether it's a Porsche, an exotic trip, a fabulous haircut, or an upscale cup of cappuccino.
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| Posted on: 11/05/2009 | 7 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Learning From a Frugal Mother
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I remember as a child, my mother would save small soap pieces and put them it hot water and mush them up, making liquid soap. We would use it to wash our hands. There were other things she did, such as saving any food containers.
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| Posted on: 10/30/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Ways To Save
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Here are some frugal ideas, we use in our home. Always buy used when we can. We visit many garage sales, thrift shops and online resources like eBay.
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| Posted on: 09/23/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: One Income Family
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I have always been a penny pincher from day one. As a teenager growing up at home, I clipped coupons and took them shopping from time to time when mom went to the grocery store.
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| Posted on: 09/16/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: From the Beginning
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When I left home at 18, I planned on working hard, saving money, and making it out in the big world alone. It didn't work that way. I met a man, got pregnant and got married. Needless to say, we were young and poor.
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| Posted on: 09/10/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: What Works For Me
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What works for me? I buy groceries and run errands in town two days a week when I go to my exercise classes to save on gas. I grow my own vegetables and eat them fresh or freeze them when we get too much, to eat during the winter.
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| Posted on: 08/19/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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