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

Re: Our four cats don't see the vet

[(Anonymous)]

They eat Iams dry food and split two cans every day of Friskies.

Without meaning to be critical, I am surprised you haven't had problems with this diet. We used to feed our cats Iams decades ago. Then Iams was bought by a major conglomerate. We were losing every one of our cats early (i.e., younger than they should have been) due to kidney related problems. When we switched to a premium, locally-made brand of kibble, the kidney issues went away and our cats lived long, happy lives.

In contradiction to our own experience, my mother has always fed her cats grocery store quality food and has not experienced the kidney problems we did. Of course, all of her cats were free-range, indoor/outdoor cats. Ours, being city dwellers at the time, were indoors only. Perhaps, they were getting something outdoors to augment their diet?

Caldathras

Re: Our four cats don't see the vet

[teresa_from_hershey]

The IAMS has worked well for us.
I vary which variety I use.

If I eventually notice an issue, I'll move up a notch.
I DO know that the cheaper the dry food, the more sawdust there is.

In the end, because we are poor (our health care is subsidized by the state of Pennsylvania and our children were on the free lunch program while in school), cost matters.

I can't buy organic raw chicken breasts for my cats when I sure can't afford them for us.

Re: Our four cats don't see the vet

[(Anonymous)]

No doubt. I've never understood why chicken is so expensive. We don't do raw diets either (other than the rodents they catch outside -- rodents sure are plentiful around here). I certainly understand. We do the best we can for them within our means.

Caldathras