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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008A co-worker was just talking about how over the weekend, her neighborhood lost power for an entire day. Something about a line being cut. Living in the D.C. area, there are plenty of places to go for free when you need to get out of the house for entertainment, but she had a child under [...]
Spend Nothing Month
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Thanks to BlogHer, I just discovered Owlhaven, an amazing blog by a woman with 10 kids! 10! And I think I have trouble balancing my budget with just one mouth to feed (well, 3 if you count the cats, who do very much like being fed).
This month, she’s doing an experiment called 30 [...]
Britain returning to wartime frugality?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Over the weekend, I stumbled across this article: Britain urging return to wartime food frugality.
There is growing concern that affordable quality food will become scarce, not due to war, but due to the rising costs of both food and energy. Of course, this is a problem around the world, but until this article, I hadn’t [...]
What would you save?
Saturday, June 21st, 2008It seems like there has been a lot of disaster and destruction in the news lately. Earthquakes, wildfires, flooding, tornadoes, and smaller scale events like the fire in Mapgirl’s neighborhood earlier this week.
Before I even begin talking about the subject, I want to reiterate Mapgirl’s statement that you need to make sure you are [...]
How frugal is too frugal?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Everyone has their limits of how far they will go in terms of frugality. Sometimes it’s just because we refuse to do something, sometimes it’s because we just don’t want to do something.
For example, we all hear about how much money we could all save if we bring our lunch every day. But if you’ve [...]