RE: Choosing Where To Be Frugal
What a lovely and generous deeds you are doing. Thanks for the inspiration.
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My nails don't grow fast at all but I like them to look nice. I buy the plastic glue-on nails. I have been using them for 21 years. have been buying them at Icing by Claires where they have been buy-one-get-one-half-price since they started carrying them a few months ago. You can buy 2 sets there for what you would pay for one anywhere else. They always have new designs every time I go there. I always buy extras of my favorite designs. I stock up every 3 weeks when i have money. i am building up quite a stockpile. They last for at least 2 weeks (or longer) if you take care of them. All the money I save I can use for new school clothes for my son and groceries and such. This design is my favorite.
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I like your generosity and community consciousness. Those children and nursing home residents will get a lot more out of what you might think are small gifts than you'd get out of expensive nail treatments, anyway. Thanks for sharing, God bless!
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Wow. You sparked a realization in me. I need to look at what I think is significant to me. How much time and money do I spend on those things?
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Kudos to you! More people should be like you. Most of us could give up some little thing in our life and use the $ to better someone else less fortunate! Grandma Jan & Kato the Wonder Dog
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Great idea! Use some Nailtiques Formula II (best to buy at TJ Maxx or Marshalls) should have your nails up and better in not a lot of time! Use a quick dry top coat (if you have a Sally's nearby) Seche Vite is a GREAT one and you can do you own nails, for much cheaper! Buy a Sally's card and you can get good NP (China Glaze) for a good price and it's a good polish. Now color won't stay as well as it does on acrylics, but you'll feel better you are taking care of not only yourself but others!
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Some people think I spend too much money on things like soymilk when regular milk is so much less expensive. But choosing not to use any animal products is important to me so I just find creative ways to make the most of the rest of my money. The point of saving money is using what you save to live the kind of lifestyle that you want.
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I agree the cost of fill ins is outrageous. I had it done once and watched how it was done. Then I purchased everything for about $40 to do it myself. I have been doing my own nails for over 20 years. It costs less than $20 a year now and I wouldn't be without them.
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Just a "heads up". I took a box of 200 pencils to our school last year for the teachers to give to the children who needed them. I found out that they were sold by the office staff to the children for $1 each and the money was used to buy the staff a new coffee maker! Beware!
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I went to a garage sale this summer and found a nail care
kit 3 kinds of cream/lotion and a four sided gray nail care
foam thingy for a dollar. My hands had felt rough and I had been spinning fine wool and it kept catching on the rough skin. I don't like polish, etc, so that was why I bought it.
Well, let me tell you. That little gray rectangle, which I've seen at Sally's, is unbelievable. There's one side for buffing off the ridges, one for filing nails, one for something else, and the miracle side: the buffer. My nails gleamed like polished furniture, They were beautiful, and it was all my own nails..I keep them short because of hobbies, but they looked so nice. Now it's time to do them again after 8 weeks. I also did my son's nails because he works with the public and shakes hands a lot. He couldn't believe it either.
I think the foam thingy is about $2 at Sally's.Then any nice hand cream. And it wasn't the cream making my nails gleam, that was before the cream.
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That is a very great idea. Like you said, everyone needs to decide for themselves what they need to cut back on. Thanks for your post, and for ideas on what to do with the 'saved' money!
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Being frugal does not mean one should not enjoy life, just that we should examine our way of life to see if what we are doing is bringing us pleasure for the cost associated. I recently had the problem of deciding to fill in the artificial nails that was given to me as a gift from my husband or taking them off and saving the money spent for upkeep. I do feel like I'm worth $15 every other week, but in the end I think it just comes down to the fact that I have other interests that I would rather put my money. In deciding to explore just what I could do with $15 bi weekly I realized that just as artificial nails require upkeep so do many other items in our lives it just comes down to is the price to keep the item worth the sacrafice somewhere else.
