Queercents

Category: Frugality

  • An Alternative to Freecycle: The ReUseIt Network

    1. If you have been booted off of a freecycle group for a rule that you weren’t aware of…2. If you have been booted off of freecycle because you didn’t post your request or offer exactly right…3. If you have walked away from freecycle because people have broken rules by selling or the group has…

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    ~Dawn

  • Cutting back to attain your financial goals.

    I was reading through the 10 Diets You Probably Want to Avoid and beyond the odd ones where a danish author was forced to eat his book and an automobile maker ate weed sandwiches’¦ there were a few that got me thinking. ‘œWhen Ernest Hemingway was writing his works of literary genius, he certainly wasn’t…

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    ~Dawn

  • Six Ways to Get Free Massage

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    I heard on NPR last week that some financial analysts are officially using the word recession to describe the state of the American economy. Finally, the suits are understanding what those of us in the trenches have been feeling for quite some time! Recessions are stressful. Massage helps with stress. And for people with chronic…

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    Jan

  • Social Security and my estimated benefits

    I recently got my yearly Social Security statement of my estimated benefits and they are always interesting to read through. For my age (1973) I will get full retirement benefits at the age of 67 and at this point, in today’s dollars I would get $1,710 a month. Disability would be less and if I…

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    ~Dawn

  • Taking a Step Back during this Economic Down Time

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    “My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That’s almost $7.00 in dog money.” – Joe Weinstein I get on weird kicks every now and again where I go through ‘what if’ scenarios in my head. I think it relates to my fascination with the end of…

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    ~Dawn

  • The Cost of Going Green

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    With all the Earth Day events this past week, the topic of making green choices is all over the news. The benefits of going green are numerous, but can you afford it and are you willing to make the choices so necessary to literally save our planet and save ourselves? The first decision has to…

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    Paula

  • Rainy Days and Kids Sometimes Get Me Down: 5 Cheap and Fun Rainy Day Projects

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    It’s raining here in DC. It rained yesterday. And I’ll bet it will rain tomorrow. My one-year-old is going stir-crazy; usually, we spend as much of the day outdoors as possible. It is on days like this that I question my commitment to a t.v.-free household! But motherhood is the Queercents invention of ingenuity. Realizing…

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    Jennifer

  • Breeding Plastic Containers: what to do with all that plastic?

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    This morning I was grabbing a bowl out of the cupboard and knocked over a batch of plastic containers we have stored in the cupboard for left-overs. It appears that we have reached that fine line that is saving for a need and the ‘just in case I need this’ situation. One of the things…

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    ~Dawn

  • A Story of Technolust: Desire and the Frugal Girl

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    I lead a fairly simple life, for a city girl. My partner and I are slowly but surely uncluttering our lives, our home, and our brains. We don’t tend to buy a lot of consumer goods (not always difficult, since we’re not usually marketed to directly.) Living frugally is not really a choice at the…

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    Jan

  • What you own and what owns you

    “Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency” – Epicurus (341’“270 B.C.) A Greek Philosopher To be self-sufficient means to depend more on you to take care of yourself; finding ways to grow food, bring in water and providing utilities are the most common. Another way to live sustain-ably would be to live with less. There…

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    ~Dawn