Frugal living
This post was transferred on Jan. 3, 2010. It was originally posted on April 10, 2009.
Yep, I definitely need to work on this.
At church, they've started a vegetable gardening group. The fifth-Sunday meeting in March was about that. I've got permission from my landlady to have a garden in the backyard. There are some things I need to do first:
So, anyway, today's link is from About.com: Top Ten Ways to Start Living the Frugal Life. I follow $5 Dinners on Twitter - I need to actually try some of the recipes. I also follow Thrifty and Chic Mom. I'm going to try her coupon binder method - I already got the baseball card pages.
Off-topic: I think I'm going to institute a rule that I can have no more than 3 tabs open when writing in my blog. I get distracted too easily (spent several minutes on Twitter before coming back to the task at hand).
I'll get around to creating a page for frugal links someday. I've got a ton of them, just don't use the advice as much as I could/should.
Yep, I definitely need to work on this.
At church, they've started a vegetable gardening group. The fifth-Sunday meeting in March was about that. I've got permission from my landlady to have a garden in the backyard. There are some things I need to do first:
- call Iowa One Call to determine where is safe to dig
- take pictures throughout the day to determine where the most sunlight is available
- determine exactly what to plant (based on what we will actually eat
- plot out where each type of vegetable will go
- get some supplies such as seedlings and potting soil
So, anyway, today's link is from About.com: Top Ten Ways to Start Living the Frugal Life. I follow $5 Dinners on Twitter - I need to actually try some of the recipes. I also follow Thrifty and Chic Mom. I'm going to try her coupon binder method - I already got the baseball card pages.
Off-topic: I think I'm going to institute a rule that I can have no more than 3 tabs open when writing in my blog. I get distracted too easily (spent several minutes on Twitter before coming back to the task at hand).
I'll get around to creating a page for frugal links someday. I've got a ton of them, just don't use the advice as much as I could/should.
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