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frugal fashion 1 week ago

i’m liking the new trends in clothing i’m seeing. luckily, i save my small clothes, thinking i’ll someday lose enough weight to get back into them. but i’ve noticed this summer that girls were wearing t-shirts with really large necklines or no shoulders, so i decided cutting the necklines of my small t-shirts and what a difference! the t-shirts become longer and loose enough to feel comfortable in again.

for winter: everyone’s layering these days. so some of the small sweaters i have can be paired nicely on top of longer undershirts. helps by keeping me warmer and layering is actually really comfortable with switchable pieces.

now i don’t need to spend more money on clothes and can go through my entire closet without doing laundry for a couple weeks if i want!



Chrmome doesn't stain 1 month ago

The faucet on my kitchen sink was broken. It was also all nasty with hard water sediment and whatnot. I considered replacing the whole faucet rather than repairing it.
But I decided to do the repair instead and while it was taken apart, I cleaned the hell out of it and it looks nearly brand new! Steel wool = awesome.

The repair turned out to be a pain in the ass, and the actual broken part isn’t something that is fixable. I did a make-shift fix, but it won’t last forever, so I’ll have to spent the big buck eventually. For now, I got out with $11 and it looks great and isn’t gushing water everywhere!



Lynn is busy learning what it means to be an urban homesteader!

be more frugal 1 month ago

After more than a year and a half of working on being more frugal, I can definitely say this has become part of my lifestyle. It’s helped me to do some really important things, like using the money I saved to pay off my student loans early and buy my first home. It also put me in a better mindset for my bigger goals of living simply and urban homesteading.



cat sitter 1 month ago

I just hired a professional cat sitter.

It’s more expensive per full day than taking my cat to the vet. But she charges by the visit, so I can do partial days and partial weekends. I’ll be weighing the costs for each trip I take and choosing the least expensive option. For a quick Saturday night out of town this will save me about $50. At my current rate of travel, that’s $600/year! Of course, this means I’ll not have to decline so many weekend trips, so it might cost me more…

Unfortunately, she doesn’t cross state lines, so if/when I move to Portland I need to find a new situation



Zaldania simply is.

Listen 1 month ago

Listen to Financial Peace University!



bowling 2 months ago

I volunteered to be the secratry for my bowling league. It’s kind of a lot of work, but I get my bowling 1/2 paid for! Woo!



working on it... 3 months ago

I have been getting better at this. I am more hesitant to make purchases, and before I spend any money, I ask myself if I really need to spend it. Or if whatever I am spending it on could be taken care of in some less-expensive way.



lunches 4 months ago

I’ve been trying to be frugal by bringing my lunch to work. I’m so sick of the same 5 varieties of canned soup (I’m being a vegetarian for a while, so the canned soup selection is reduced to just a few varieties which all taste the same) and pb&j every day! There has got to be another low-effort low-cost lunch option.



Lynn is busy learning what it means to be an urban homesteader!

Frugal Habit 49 7 months ago

I made big batches of pb&j sandwiches and cookies then froze them for grab and go lunch options on busy mornings. (There’s no excuse for eating in the cafeteria now!)

blinkie by x0xjenniferx0x at livejournal



Lynn is busy learning what it means to be an urban homesteader!

Frugal Habit 48 7 months ago

I know I missed posting a lot of these here. The rest are on my blog.

The grocery store had big signs up saying banana prices are on the rise. So the next time I passed Aldis I stopped to get 4 bunches of bananas to dehydrate. That way I’ll have cheap banana chips to munch on when fresh banana prices are high.

blinkie by solarstorm at livejournal



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