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Getting Rid Of Boxes And A Frugal Blog Network Round Up

August 1, 2009

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but keep forgetting.  After we moved, we had a ton of boxes sitting in our garage.  We had wrangled them up from all over the place in the months preceeding our move: my parents saved medical supply boxes for us, a friend who moved [...]

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Frugal Living Book Giveaway

July 9, 2009

Andy at Tight Fisted Miser is hosting a book giveaway that ought to be a good read for anyone who enjoys my blog.  It’s called 10,001 Ways To Live Large On A Small Budget, and was compiled by the editors of Wisebread.   All you have to do if you want to enter to win a [...]

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Wow, That Only Leaves $277/Month For Everything Else

May 22, 2009

I was catching up on some blog reading this evening, and came across an article on Frugal Zeitgeist’s site that kept me reading until the very end.   She included a link to a story about an economics reporter (of all people!) who, despite his impressive background in covering all sorts of financial ups and downs, [...]

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HSA Contribution And Blog Posts I Like

April 3, 2009

I just put $1000 into our HSA.  Any contributions we make to our HSA are automatically invested in a mutual fund.  Last spring, shares in the fund were selling for around $23 a pop.  Now they’re about $16.  So although it’s painful to look at overall balances in all of our accounts, it’s nice to [...]

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Frugal Blog Network Round Up

February 17, 2009

After a very long hiatus from carnivals and festivals, I finally submitted a post to the festival of frugality this week.  Good Financial Cents hosted, and as always, there are a ton of great articles to browse through.   If you haven’t already, head over there and check it out. In the Frugal Blog Network, Tight [...]

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Repurposed Dishwasher Parts And Sunday Round Up

January 19, 2009

Our dishwasher may have died, but I’m finding ways to give its parts a new life.  I’m a scrapbooker, and I love pens.  I do a lot of writing on my pages, and have quite a few pens.  Until today, they lived in a drawer, all jumbled together.  Now they are neatly organized in the [...]

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Sunday Round Up And My Profile On FiLife

January 11, 2009

FiLife is a personal finance site that is partnered with the Wall Street Journal.  Susie Bafico from FiLife interviewed me earlier this month and has posted the interview on the site’s profile section.  Head over there and see if you learn anything about me that you didn’t already know.  Susie has interviewed several bloggers.  Scan [...]

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Vegan Food And A Crackdown On Used Clothing For Kids

January 5, 2009

I hope you all had a good weekend, and that 2009 is off to a good start for everyone.  I made this amazingly good vegan mac n cheese for dinner tonight, and wanted to share it with my readers.  Even if you’re not vegan, potatoes and carrots are cheaper and milk and cheese.  And better [...]

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A No Spending Day And My Weekly Round Up

December 28, 2008

I just finished making another diaper for our son, and the process is getting much easier and faster.  This evening it took me less than a hour from start to finish.  I used a fleece sweatshirt I found at a thrift store for the liner (I should be able to get three more diapers out [...]

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More Details About Our Worm Composting

December 22, 2008

When I wrote about our worms and ladybugs a few days ago, several people told me that they had been thinking of starting to compost with worms, but didn’t want to spend $100+ on the bin.  So I thought I’d take pictures of our $5 setup that my husband made.  He bought three big plastic [...]

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