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Adding Up the Savings of a Frugal Life

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November 21, 2011

My husband and I had very different childhoods. He grew up in inner city St. Louis while I was raised deep in a rural Alabama valley.

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We do, however, share one common thread. We both grew up poor.

Fall in the Smoky Mountains.

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August 29, 2011

I struggled for years to put myself through college. When at last I was employed, and besieged by credit card offers, I was not very wise. I had lived so lean for so long that the temptation was too strong; and I went under.

A white and blue mural painted on a kitchen wall.

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April 21, 2015

This was to be a prelude on the importance and appreciation of good, crusty Southern style biscuits, and more tips on how to make them. This 'prelude' became so lengthy, it turned into a 'story' in its own right. Read on.

An old fashioned black and white photo of a family.

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March 3, 2010

My immigrant non-schooled Mom and jack-of-all-trades Dad supported a family of 5 with no-nonsense and common sense when it came to money.

 
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July 19, 2011

It seems as if others are learning for the first time how to be frugal and enjoy it, which I have known all along, but now that prices at the pump are at an all time high, I am so happy I know how to save money!

 
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September 23, 2011

I have been honing my frugal skills every since I left college, years ago. My first frugal research started with an old book entitled "How to Save on Everything", written in the late 40s.

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It had all sorts of interesting ways to reuse, remake, and recycle.

 
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October 20, 2011

Remember the satisfaction you felt at being able to extract that last bit of toothpaste or shampoo or cold cream? Remember how long it took? Each day you thought there couldn't possibly be anything left in that tube, bottle, or jar, but there always was.

 
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September 14, 2011

I have been frugal all my life. When I was young, it was called "living country". You saved everything and found another use for it.

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To this day, I don't know if we would have been considered working poor or not.

 
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July 21, 2010

My husband is a penny pincher and that is great. He has helped our family pay off our house in 3 years. The trick is paying separate to the principal and the amount will drop fast.

 
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September 21, 2011

In the difficult financial times that many of us have found ourselves in over the past few years, giving up two well paid and secure jobs to take up one reasonably paid one in a new start up company in another country may seem a pretty strange proposition to put forward.

 
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May 31, 2006

A few years ago, I was out a job from my third oil company layoff, and decided to move from Houston to Galveston to get away from big city blues. That saved me a lot right there - moving to a smaller city, only an hour away!

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But there were fewer jobs here, all vastly lower paying, so I had to economize. Here are some of the things I did:

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November 30, 2011

When I look at some of the great pleasures of my life, I find that most of them are free - or very nearly so.

 
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April 17, 2007

I'm an old lady now, but I guess my upbringing is what led me to always be inventive and saving. Dollar bills did not multiply without a lot of making do and doing without!

 
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