Frugal Babe

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The Festival of Frugality is up at On Financial Success.
I really enjoyed the post from Uncommon Cents about how getting a new bike won’t make one a better cyclist. I have three siblings who are competitive cyclists, and regularly win races on bikes that cost a fraction of what many of their competitors paid. [...]

The Carnival of All Things Eco is up at Focus Organic.  As a partial raw foodie (I eat about 50% raw), I enjoyed the post about eating raw in cold climates from Goddess of the Garden.  Looks at all the angles of packaging, waste, transportation of food during cold local season… good food for thought.
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The Carnival of All Things Eco is up at Focus Organic. Check out these great shopping bags made out of old sweatshirts at Lu-n-Am. Love them! We have cloth bags and we’re getting much better about remembering to take them to the store. But ours are very boring compared with these!
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The Frugal Gump edition of the Festival of Frugality is up at Budgets Are Sexy (awesome movie = great theme!)
Here’s a sweet post about how acne is like credit card debt. Quite the visual images conjured up here, imagining people rubbing pizza on their faces… I am happily in the phase I section here [...]

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at The Dividend Guy. Mrs. Accountability has a great post about a washing machine that cost three times as much as my car. Sort of puts into perspective what a bad deal long-term appliance rental is! And the DebtFree Playbook Blog has a positive spin [...]

The Festival of Frugality is up at Broke Grad Student. I enjoyed the post at Free From Broke about running. I’ve been running since I was about 16 - nearly half my life. I love how simple it is. I do have somewhat expensive shoes that I buy at a store [...]

The Carnival of All Things Eco is up at Focus Organic.  I really enjoyed the post from Elizabeth about hemp production in the US.  I’m a huge fan of hemp - it’s sustainable, durable, and can be used for a multitude of purposes (for many of which we currently use petroleum products).  We have an [...]

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at Bible Money Matters.  Check out this story from Mrs. Accountability - it’ll make you shudder, I promise!  I also liked the post from Harvesting Dollars about kids working during high school.  I have to agree - By the time I was a senior in high school, I [...]

The Carnival of Money Stories is up at Piggy Bank Blues.  Check out the post from Amateur Asset Allocator about the ideal 401k.  Sounds good to me.  And I enjoyed Paid Twice’s post about how life is meant to be lived.  Good point for frugal folk to keep in mind.  Out of Debt Again has [...]