Category: Frugality
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Reduce Weight, Increase Money
If you look at the picture on the left, which plate would you chose to eat your meal with? On the left side is a larger plate and cup and on the right is a smaller plate and cup. If you chose the plate and cup on the left, you chose the serving size of…
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Car Cupholder Cleanliness
One thing that drives me nuts in my car is a drink that spills in the cup holder, making a mess. Not a big mess; just drip down the side and make your cup holder sticky enough that when you throw change in it later and have forgotten about the mess, the coins are all…
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Vacationing By Car
“Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.” — Mark Twain So I’m in Las Vegas right now for a work show and last night as the taxi driver was…
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Grass: Wasting Money To Keep Green
“Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.” — Author Unknown This weekend as the temperatures moved above 80 degrees in Newport Beach, it was time to increase the timer on the lawn sprinklers. This always makes me consider how much money we are spending and…
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Minimalism and You
I think that when you say you want to live a minimalist life to someone, they get this institutional picture of white walls and little or no furniture. Kind of like the picture to the left. (I kinda like it, though). But minimalist living has different definitions to it, depending on who you talk to.
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Gay-Friendly Quebec
“A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” – Morris Fishbein Jeanine and I just returned from vacation to Montreal and Quebec. We picked this area of Canada for a couple of reasons: 1. It felt like we were in France without actually having to fly 11 hours from the west…
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Would You Drink Powdered Milk?
I’ll bet that if you said powdered milk in a group of people you would get the most passionate of responses, either for or against drinking it. I personally, grew up with it and except for a few years off, I continue to drink it. I like the light flavor and thin texture (other milk…
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The Luxuries and the Necessities
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind” ~ Henry David Thoreau “It is impossible to overdo luxury” ~ French Proverb “It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows…
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Cool Down Your Home and the Spending
I’d like to highlight a few ideas that I have found work in my residence and of course if you have further ideas, don’t hesitate to speak up and comment below. 1> Use a bloody fan for Pete’s sake, and stay cool!- Good grief, even I forget to do this occasionally; running to the thermostat…
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Endcaps: Beware of Items in Checkout Lane
“Choices are the hinges of destiny.” — Edwin Markham The other day, a fellow blogger wrote a post about a friend that needed to justify things he might consider to be impulse purchases. She writes, “My friend wanted to buy a jester’s hat at a thrift shop. First he asked himself how many times he…
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