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At-Home Lunar New Year Celebration

Shereen Travels Cheap

While I was there picking up my order, I also grabbed this year's Harney & Sons tea , which is delicious and a set of 3 decorated sugar cookies for dessert. (If It's free to you to do so, and it helps me keep this blog running, to bring you more useful travel tips. You may recognize the juice glasses I bought another year.

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Meet a Reader | Megan from California

The Frugal Girl

Tell us a little about yourself I’m 40 years old, married with two sons who are 11 and 7 years old. I only started reading the blog when I saw Kristen’s post about her separation and was curious what had happened. So, here’s Megan! I live in the desert in Southern California, and my husband and I are both engineers.

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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

I think that I heard about Kristen’s blog through Katy, the Non-Consumer Advocate. I don’t know how I heard about Katy’s blog first! My son with one of our baby goats I remember for many years looking at any recipe that asked for more than one kind of cheese and rejecting it right away.

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One Year In:  Our Experience Sponsoring a Child In Africa

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Last fall, I was contacted by World Vision to host a review and giveaway on my blog for one of their Christmas presents. We sat down with our son and looked on the computer at the many children available for sponsorship. Our son finally settled on a boy, Janvier, who was born on the exact same day and year as he was.

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

I’ve been an architect, day-care teacher to toddlers, and library clerk, but am currently a SAHM to a 14yo son and 9yo daughter. I was searching for ways to cut back on expenses and found this blog. My oldest child and our dogs not too long before I started reading this blog! We share our home with a 70lb rescued mutt.

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Productivity Tip: Bunch Certain Tasks Together

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Checking my email, checking comments on my blogs, and visiting my social media accounts are all tasks that are somewhat similar and require similar levels of mental exertion. Writing a blog post, though, is a different proposition altogether. I’ve also started bunching certain types of blog posts together.

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How to Learn Frugal Tricks in a New Town

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For instance, we regularly do the following frugal activities: Hang clothes to dry indoors on a wooden drying rack, Buy food in bulk when it is cheap and freeze the excess or store it, Buy used (for clothing and furniture), Cut my son and husband’s hair. Frugal blogs can be an excellent way to learn about how to save in your new locale.

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