Category: Frugality
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Fuel Economy and Gay Road Trips
“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.” — Jim Rohn Jeanine and I are taking a road trip later this summer to see friends in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. We’ll be driving: Jeanine’s car,…
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Frugal by Any Other Name
If you do a search online for “thoughtful living” you will find a lot of interesting results. The thoughtful living I am thinking of has nothing to do with the metaphysical, fine wine or a class taught at the university. It is instead a change of attitude, eventually of mindset and ultimately of lifestyle that…
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Generic Rules
I can remember growing up and opening up cupboards to a wonderful display of color, as long as it was black and white only ( there was the occasional blue or green as I recall also, but mostly black). I grew up on generic and since I trusted that mom knew what she was doing,…
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Tips for Petroleum Jelly
This is a wonderful standby for more than just medical. When I was a police explorer many eons ago, when we would go into a particularly raunchy house, the officer I was with always handed me a small tube of menthal jelly to put under my nose so I wouldn’t get sick. I also have…
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New Car Smell
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three – and paradise is when you have none.” — Doug Larson As a rule of thumb, we try to keep our two-car garage clean enough to actually park two cars in it. Whenever the space becomes…
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Is the Freegan Life for You?
Wikipedia has definition of a Freegan: The practice of minimizing one’s impact on the environment by means of consuming food that has been or is about to be thrown away by someone else…..Many people exerting this practice have been forced into it simply by lacking the income necessary to purchase food normally, rather than making…
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10 Tips for the Fashionable Frugalista
Clothes can be hard to come by if you don’t have a lot of money to spend. If you want to stay frugal here are a few ideas to take with you along with your money. 1. Buy Quality – Not expensive clothes necessarily, but quality clothes. Many times quality items aren’t cheap, but their…
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Family Travel
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” – Ovid I recently wrote an article appearing in the July issue of the BLADE, a Southern California GLBT magazine. As thoughts turn to summer vacations, I thought it was worth repeating here… In my twenties, I read the book by Alexandra Stoddard called…
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Easy Button
“Anything simple always interests me.” — David Hockney I met a guy at the Madrid airport while waiting to board my flight to London. My typical rule of thumb is never to engage in conversation while en route. I find it distracting and airplane time is my reading time. Although my guard softens when standing…
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