Comments on: Frugal Encouragement http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/ Good stewardship in action. How do you do it? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Denise http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6510 Denise Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:16:22 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6510 I have missed this site so much! I used to be in the Frugal Hacks gang, back when I had my blog, Frugal Franny. I sold it a couple of years ago and now am doing freelancing blogging for different clients. One of those is a company called Mercardi.com/home and they buy and sell unwanted gift cards. So I thought, "man, I need to tell my frugal blogger friends about this!" So, there you go. Hope all is well and consider yourself told!! lol I have missed this site so much! I used to be in the Frugal Hacks gang, back when I had my blog, Frugal Franny. I sold it a couple of years ago and now am doing freelancing blogging for different clients. One of those is a company called Mercardi.com/home and they buy and sell unwanted gift cards. So I thought, “man, I need to tell my frugal blogger friends about this!”

So, there you go. Hope all is well and consider yourself told!! lol

]]> By: caryn verell http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6502 caryn verell Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:41:50 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6502 i have many friends who spend, spend, spend...one of them i suspect might qualify to be on that reality show called "hoarders"..i am sometimes so frugal that i have been told i can make a nickel cry...what makes me feel really great though is that once in a blue moon i am told by such friends that the idea i shared with them on making something work or saving time and money was just what they needed. i just smile back and keep my "i told you so" comments to myself...and enjoy the compliments when they come. the invitation to lunch that turns out to be "dutch-treat" is like having your pockets picked..if you cannot afford the lunch then turn down the invite. i have many friends who spend, spend, spend…one of them i suspect might qualify to be on that reality show called “hoarders”..i am sometimes so frugal that i have been told i can make a nickel cry…what makes me feel really great though is that once in a blue moon i am told by such friends that the idea i shared with them on making something work or saving time and money was just what they needed. i just smile back and keep my “i told you so” comments to myself…and enjoy the compliments when they come. the invitation to lunch that turns out to be “dutch-treat” is like having your pockets picked..if you cannot afford the lunch then turn down the invite.

]]> By: DD http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6501 DD Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:14:19 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6501 My friend and I are both half korean and half white, however we are very much american since neither of us knows how to speak korean let alone know any of the family on that side. But we love korean food, there's this small place and you have to know its there because it's not listed, and we go there to eat lunch, and then head to the mall to get our bubble tea drinks, and we walk around and look through the stores, but we always put stuff back, and then we sit down at our favorite couch in the store and talk for hours! its a lot of fun and we don't pressure the other one to spend anything, infact we are pretty proud of ourselves when don't buy anything else. My hubs has a friend and they are still young and they are very much the spenders, generally we try to use a coupon for what it is we are going out to, or just hang out at their place and play pool, its one of my fav things to do but im not paying 75 cents -$1 to play every time. My friend and I are both half korean and half white, however we are very much american since neither of us knows how to speak korean let alone know any of the family on that side. But we love korean food, there’s this small place and you have to know its there because it’s not listed, and we go there to eat lunch, and then head to the mall to get our bubble tea drinks, and we walk around and look through the stores, but we always put stuff back, and then we sit down at our favorite couch in the store and talk for hours! its a lot of fun and we don’t pressure the other one to spend anything, infact we are pretty proud of ourselves when don’t buy anything else.
My hubs has a friend and they are still young and they are very much the spenders, generally we try to use a coupon for what it is we are going out to, or just hang out at their place and play pool, its one of my fav things to do but im not paying 75 cents -$1 to play every time.

]]> By: DeputyHeadmistress http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6498 DeputyHeadmistress Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:26:59 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6498 Jenny D.- I wasn't thinking so much about 'converting' the spendy, trendy friends- I agree that can be a serious exercise in mutual frustration unless they are asking for help. But if you already have spendy friends and then you change your spending habits to frugal, it can be hard on the friendship. Assuming they are friends you want to keep, you may want to find ways to help them understand why you do what you do, even if they never want to, and reach out in other ways so as not to burn bridges. Cindee, you crack me up. Lollie, I am planning on writing about composting this coming Friday- that's what the asterisk was there, but I forgot to explain.;-0 Holly, what a great idea! Jenny D.- I wasn’t thinking so much about ‘converting’ the spendy, trendy friends- I agree that can be a serious exercise in mutual frustration unless they are asking for help. But if you already have spendy friends and then you change your spending habits to frugal, it can be hard on the friendship. Assuming they are friends you want to keep, you may want to find ways to help them understand why you do what you do, even if they never want to, and reach out in other ways so as not to burn bridges.

Cindee, you crack me up. Lollie, I am planning on writing about composting this coming Friday- that’s what the asterisk was there, but I forgot to explain.;-0
Holly, what a great idea!

]]> By: Holly http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6496 Holly Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:49:09 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6496 We are able to use the base bowling alley. In the summer they offer booklets where you prebuy games for $20. It ends up being $.50 a game to bowl. We usually buy 2-3 books. We have taken other families on base to bowl. We gave one booklet to a group of young army guys since we knew that they are away from home, lonely, and broke. We had friends that every Christmas would invite 7 families over. Each was responsible for a vegetable, a starch dish, 2 brought desserts, a salad, bread, and the host family made the meat. The rooms were lit with candles and the Chirstmas tree. The plates were loaded in the kitchen and then brought in by their kids (who then went to a back room to eat pizza,popcorn, and watch movies)You were to dress from Sunday best to formal. They had sparkling grape juice. It was so nice. We are able to use the base bowling alley. In the summer they offer booklets where you prebuy games for $20. It ends up being $.50 a game to bowl. We usually buy 2-3 books. We have taken other families on base to bowl. We gave one booklet to a group of young army guys since we knew that they are away from home, lonely, and broke.

We had friends that every Christmas would invite 7 families over. Each was responsible for a vegetable, a starch dish, 2 brought desserts, a salad, bread, and the host family made the meat. The rooms were lit with candles and the Chirstmas tree. The plates were loaded in the kitchen and then brought in by their kids (who then went to a back room to eat pizza,popcorn, and watch movies)You were to dress from Sunday best to formal. They had sparkling grape juice. It was so nice.

]]> By: Lollie http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6495 Lollie Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:05:47 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6495 I've learned a lot just from reading your blog and the other 4 Mommy's. I have some great frugal ideas I want to try. For example making more yogurt out of the one we buy. What a great idea, my family loves yogurt and I can't afford to buy it all the time. I always believed I needed to buy some fancy machine, but one of the 4 Mommy's explained how to make my own and it looks so uncomplicated! Yay! I love that you compost, I really want to do that. My hubby is not into building me a compost bin, do I need a bin? Or is there some easier way for this too? Thanks! I’ve learned a lot just from reading your blog and the other 4 Mommy’s. I have some great frugal ideas I want to try. For example making more yogurt out of the one we buy. What a great idea, my family loves yogurt and I can’t afford to buy it all the time. I always believed I needed to buy some fancy machine, but one of the 4 Mommy’s explained how to make my own and it looks so uncomplicated! Yay!
I love that you compost, I really want to do that. My hubby is not into building me a compost bin, do I need a bin? Or is there some easier way for this too?
Thanks!

]]> By: Cindee http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6494 Cindee Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:25:53 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6494 You aren't supposed to spit on the griddle??? You aren’t supposed to spit on the griddle???

]]> By: Jenny http://frugalhacks.com/2010/04/16/frugal-encouragement/comment-page-1/#comment-6493 Jenny Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:13:18 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=2212#comment-6493 RIGHT ON, SISTER!!! I love this post! Spot on with the, "...invite you along Dutch Treat and are surprised when you never come...feel a bit grubby and mean about your lifestyle..." and I laughed my head off over the "spitting on the griddle" bit. But I have to say, I must be awfully jaded, I just can't get on board with attempting to convert a spendy person. A girl can only take so much of that, "...wrinkled her delicate little nose..." act! RIGHT ON, SISTER!!! I love this post! Spot on with the, “…invite you along Dutch Treat and are surprised when you never come…feel a bit grubby and mean about your lifestyle…” and I laughed my head off over the “spitting on the griddle” bit. But I have to say, I must be awfully jaded, I just can’t get on board with attempting to convert a spendy person. A girl can only take so much of that, “…wrinkled her delicate little nose…” act!

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