Collecting Frugalities
Because my husband is currently unemployed, I have been more seriously revisiting several frugal topics in our own lives as well as on my regular blog. I've also shared some exciting finds we came across this week, and in turn, we've learned something from our commenters. First my son-in-law called to tell us butter was on sale for .50 a pound, because it 'expired' in two days. Well, butter keeps very nicely in the freezer, so he bought 180 pounds and we're dividing it amongst four families.
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It's definitely simpler, at the consumer end of things, to just flip on the heater switch and raise the thermostate than it is to chop, split, stack, carry and burn wood, or even to dress for the weather. But easier isn't necessarily better for the pocket book. As Betsy's Aunt Abigail says:
Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out at the window!
We've done as Betsy's family did in two of the houses where we lived. When we lived in a farm-house in Nebraska we simply closed off the bedroom my husband used for a work room and one of the girls' bedrooms every winter. We moved all five (and later six) girls to the same bedroom- one on the south side of the house, where it got more sunlight- every winter. We moved them back in the spring.
When we lived in a trailer in Illinois, we never opened one bedroom all winter long. Our own bedroom we kept at a completely frigid temperature. We slept bundled under blankets, and the HM, who had just come from basic training and thus had the scant bristles of a new recruit on his pate, slept with a wool cap on his head. This is also a tip we might learn from our ancestors who slept in nightcaps.
I wrote here about saving on the electric bill. I first compiled the contents specifically for circulation amongst my family members here at home (there are 7 of us still in this house), there are some obvious savings not even mentioned because we already do them. Then it occurred to me that it might be useful to somebody else, so I thought I'd share it. Here's an excerpt:
Here I wrote about the Siren Song of Advertising, because, like so many things, frugality begins in the mind:
Every week we make choices, some of them good, some bad, and some of them just the best we can do based on circumstances outside our control. All of them are made in an absolute cacophony of temptations, of siren calls to be different, to taste something new, to grab an opportunity before it's too late. Surrounded by the noise, the lights, bells, whistles, the siren calls and the carefully packaged appeals to the flesh, a world clamoring to make merchandise of our souls, we sometimes blow it.
Sometimes even our desire to be frugal, to be wise, to be careful, the bargain hunter becomes the hunted, the consumer becomes the consumed.
One of the things I did in response to losing the majority of our monthly income was go to the library and revisit frugal topics. I shared a list of my favorite books on frugal living in this post, but I found a new-to-me-book at the library this week that I need to add- it's Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds from Your Monthly Food Bill
I'd love if if you'd share you own favorite books or blogs that help you live within your means.
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3 Responses to “Collecting Frugalities”
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:29 am
I have her book, Family Feasts for $75.00 a Week. She has a lot of good recipes in the book. Some have become our family favorites.
There is also another good books out there to help anyone lower their grocery budget. The two books I go to over and over are Not Just Beans and Dining On A Dime by Tawra Kellam and her mother Jill Cooper. They also have a wonderful web site full of ideas and recipes…www.LivingonaDime.com I love to visit the site and read what is new. She is a gifted writer and shares her ideas freely.
If you are looking for some ways to save a few pennies that You have not thought of yet check out their web site. Chances are there is an idea or two there that will help you.
March 4th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
I think I came across this idea here, it is the what’s in your hand concept. It definately applies to grocery bills, as well as clothes, need clothes for a growing little one, repurpose some adult clothes that no longer fit or that you just never wear as fabric to make the new clothes. Sometimes it is about how you look at your resources. My SIL was so focused last year on what she did not have that she lost sight of what she did have. In one conversation she was lamenting on how bare her cubbards where and as we talked I asked some questions on what actually did she really have, and asked her to open the cabinet and look, we where able to make 3-4 meals plans out of what she was thinking on as bits and pieces. Working on rethinking your needs as well as what you have in hand can go along way.
March 4th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Hi, Shannon- yepp, the what’s in your hand approach is one I have shared here many times. I am thrilled you find it useful!
Roxie, thanks!
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