Archive for the 'Frugal Living' Category
What’s In YOUR Pantry?
How many of us, like Old Mother Hubbard, has gone to our pantry to get the ingredients for a meal……only to find it bare?
I don’t use the term pantry often. I usually the words ‘food storage.’ I buy in bulk when things are on sale and I shop my food storage room instead [...]
The Freegan Ride
Tonight I read a thought provoking article published in Newsweek titled The Freegan Ride. The article is a summary diary of Raina Kelley’s month long experience as a Freegan. A freegan is a person who has made the decision to curtail consumption of resources by reusing, recycling and applying alternative methods to consumerism. [...]
Read More..>>Less Income - More Investment: How we cut back our budget so I could stay home
My second daughter was six weeks old when I had to get ready to go back to work for the first week of school as a part-time teacher. I woke up at 5 am to pump and then nurse my newborn while I simultaneously gobbled down a bagel and inhaled a few cups of [...]
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