Frugal Friday

[ecosophia]

Welcome back to Frugal Friday! In honor, so to speak, of the wildly inflated price of eggs, this month will be Egg Meme Month on Frugal Friday. Yes, you may consider this encouragement to get your own henhouse up and running!

Aside from that, this is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed.

Rule #1:  this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc.  I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #2:  this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #3:  please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about.  Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.

Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.

With that said, have at it!

Comments

Friends...

[michele7]

Decades ago, I had a friend who was part of a women's group. All these women had one thing in common, their husbands had the same nationality. At first the group comfortably met, sharing the highs and lows of living in a foreign country. Then one woman started to express displeasure with her husband. She separated from him and regaled the women's group with all his wrongdoings. Then every meeting was about how all men were bad and the country they were living in was bad. This spread like a cancer in the women's group. Another member divorced and then another member. My friend who witnessed all of this finally had to leave the women's group because she found herself becoming disgruntled with her husband. She realized that spending time with these unhappy women was making her feel unhappy about things that normally didn't bother her. What does this have to do with frugality? Divorce can be a messy and expensive endeavor. I'm not saying that divorce can never be justified. Keep in mind that misery loves company. Pick your friends carefully.

Re: Friends...

[(Anonymous)]

Even without the divorce, this is good advice. Friends have a significant influence on how you live; my friends are the board-gaming, nerdy variety who praise my homebrew and happily accept gifts of home made jam and home laid eggs. It would be a lot harder to live the way I do if they weren't. It is important to surround yourself with people who will reinforce the values you want to keep.