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Weekend Roundup - Gardening Edition | Credit Guy — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:40:13 +0000

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Weekend Roundup - Gardening Edition | Not Made Of Money — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:37:39 +0000

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By: KC

KC — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:46:58 +0000

I wonder how you can turn your eyes into “stager eyes”? How can you walk in the door and see the things that they see?

Would be wonderful to see things from another perspective because, I think, we get used to seeing our houses looking a certain way and can’t see that there are things which, ummmmmmm, lower the tone.

Was a good post to get me thinking.

By: FrugalBabe

FrugalBabe — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:43:53 +0000

Aw, thanks Kelly! That was sweet of you. He had a good birthday – we had a little vegan hippie cake made of things like oats, dates, and apples, and I smashed up a banana for frosting. He loved it
Then we took him to the pool at our local rec center. He liked the family spa area (a hot tub that’s set to a cooler temp than normal – sort of like bathwater) but he wasn’t too impressed with the pool itself (probably felt a little cold, since his experience so far with water has been the bathtub). I’m sure that will come with time. All in all, it was a great day.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:21:51 +0000

I know this isn’t quite a comment about this post, but I almost forgot…Happy Birthday Frugal Baby! (only a week late…) Hope the upcoming year is as fantastic as the last one was!

By: FrugalBabe

FrugalBabe — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:47:08 +0000

Geoff – Yes, our thrift stores are huge. One near our house is the size of a grocery store (it’s actually in a building that used to be a grocery store), and sells just about anything you can imagine. The other one is a Habitat for Humanity Restore, with tons of furniture and home improvement supplies, as well as a good sized, two story area full of clothes, kitchen stuff, etc. But it’s not just our town – every large town around here has similar thrift stores.

By: Geoff K

Geoff K — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:49:04 +0000

I think it’s been commented on before, but it sounds as if you have awesome thrift shops nearby. I wish we did here in Invercargill, New Zealand. Here it seems to be mainly old ornaments and nick-nacks whose seemingly sole purpose is to create clutter.

Are the thrift shops you go to huge? It seems as though you can get just about anything there. From crutches for your husband a while ago, to now throw pillows.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:09:01 +0000

I am glad I am not the only one who might not clean if it weren’t for company coming over

By: FrugalBabe

FrugalBabe — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:54:01 +0000

GC – I’m a big fan of the idea of that cleaning when company is coming over is plenty. There are tons of things I would rather do than clean. If we didn’t have company on a somewhat regular basis, our house would get pretty messy I’m glad that this stuff is getting done (the dining room chairs had been bugging me for years, but I never got around to painting them until now), but there is no way in the world that I would put this much effort into the aesthetics of our house if we weren’t trying to sell it.

By: GC

GC — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:00:56 +0000

will you do this to your new home when you move in?
I often find that we put in a lot of energy for other people that we never get around to for ourselves. I’m the principal culprit. I never clean ’til company comes.