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My Frugal Life - Lessons From The Amish

I am going to start this by saying that I believe I was born in the wrong era or else I was given up for adoption by an Amish family! I truly believe that being frugal helps simplify my life. Go figure, when some of the things I do to save a dime are more time consuming!

For instance, I could throw my clothes in my dryer to get them dry, instead I choose to put them in the basket, take them outside and hang them piece by piece, for free! It gives me such satisfaction to do such a simple task and see those clothes blowing on the line and smell their "cleanness" when I bring them in. I truly feel that with all of the technology that is available to us today, we have lost being joyful in doing the simplest of tasks and feel like something as simple as hanging laundry is too much work.

I chose to become frugal by choice. This is the one thing as a stay at home Mom that I can do to save money. We live in Pennsylvania, so we live near the Amish and Mennonites. They do without modern technology so they don't become "worldly". Do we really need all of that "stuff" to help us get everything done? Do we really need to run to the store the minute we run out of something? Can we find a substitute or do without it until we are in town next time? What did pioneer women do when they ran out of something?

Being frugal makes my choices easy. I WON'T make special trips to the store for things, I WON'T buy a cake mix, I WON'T use my dryer, I WON'T pay full price for toilet paper, and the list goes on and on! All of these "WON'T's" help me to live a more frugal and simple life. My last name may not be Ingalls, Stoltzfus or Walton, but I have a similar life as theirs in this modern, crazy world!

Amy from Pennsylvania

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