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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 | 3 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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| My Frugal Life: The Gift Of Time
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My 15 year old daughter, Tori died under horrific circumstances 11 years ago on 8/27/98. This was the worst experience that I have ever felt. Friends circled us, send flowers, food and condolences. I know these people were supporting us the best way they knew how.
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| Posted on: 08/14/2009 | 13 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life - Thrifty Disabled Senior
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I am a disabled senior trying to live as frugally as I can, considering Social Security isn't anything to brag about. I get around in a motorized wheel chair. Our state has a law that seniors and disabled do not need to pay bus fair on our city buses.
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| Posted on: 08/11/2009 | 3 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Saving on Electricity
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I started being conscious of energy use via lighting in the 70's. The first thing I did was train my 2 children to turn off the lights when they weren't using them. I began buying task lighting for them, and unscrewed the huge incandescents in the house.
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| Posted on: 07/27/2009 | 4 Feedback(s) |
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| My Frugal Life: Recession? What Recession?
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It is almost funny to us, to hear these people on the news talking about the recession and how they are losing their homes and can't buy the things they want anymore. I just don't have the sympathy for them I guess.
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| Posted on: 07/01/2009 | 20 Feedback(s) |
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