Category Archives: frugal

My Guest Post over at The Digerati Life

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Today SVB at The Digerati Life has been kind enough to feature me as a guest blogger with my post Guide To Sewing Buttons: How To Sew On A Button Correctly.   My tutorial has instructions, plus photos. Go on over and check it out, take a look around SVB's blog and subscribe to her very informative and interesting blog! Yours Truly,OUT OF DEBT AGAIN is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to… Read the rest

My Grandma was Truly Frugal

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Yesterday I promised to tell you about my frugal Grandma.  Grandma was born in 1914 and passed away in 2007.  She grew up during lived through the Great Depression which I'm sure affected her lifestyle for her entire life.  In her mid-twenties, my Grandma contracted tuberculosis and spent almost three years in a sanitarium. When she finally recovered enough to be discharged, she discovered that family members, apparently assuming she would die in the sanitarium, had been able to remove… Read the rest

Do You Qualify to be -Truly- Frugal?

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On Sunday one of my fellow bloggers was taken to task by an anonymous commenter, who suggested that the author was not “truly frugal”. Abigail from I Pick Up Pennies defended herself rather admirably in a response post What is a “True” Frugal Blogger? I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the various bloggers who have discussed this highly subjective topic. Are you frugal? Are you TRULY frugal? Are you REALLY frugal?  Or are you just… Read the rest