Frugal
These are all the posts in the “frugal” category.
Frugality is the centre point of this blog – a lot of the cooking, making, growing, and chickening posts are also really frugal living ideas. You may also be interested in charity shopping (aka using thrift stores) and anti-consumerism stuff.
These are the socks I’m wearing today: (Well, the “undersocks” I’m wearing today – I’ve got some big fluffy ones on top – I feel nude if I’m wearing less than two pairs of socks in winter :) ) I’m good at stitching up small holes in socks but when it comes to threadbare patches [...]
I was in a bit of a sleep daze when I had a shower yesterday and accidentally lathered, rinsed and repeated. I’m not a girl who usually repeats, no matter what the side of the bottle says, but it reminded me of an old article that I re-read recently. The article was about portion control [...]
This morning I tweeted that I think it’s going to take me most of 2012 to catch up on all my leftover stuff from 2011 – and this is one of those things! The Challenge Last year, I set myself the challenge of buying no more than 12 items of clothing in 2011 – and [...]
Continue reading about Buy less than 12 items of clothing in 2011 challenge – end of year update
This was originally going to be a much longer post on two vaguely connected things but I think it confused the issue lumping them together, so I’ve split it up – pennies today, the other thing tomorrow. A few weeks ago, there was an interesting article on Get Rich Slowly about picking up pennies. (I’ve [...]
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