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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

The Frugal Girl

We spend most of our time seeing friends and family, participating in our church activities or working on our property. I do a lot of our cooking from scratch which takes a lot of my time! As well as other “from scratch” things like my current main hobby of teaching myself how to spin yarn from our sheeps’ wool.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Read 11 Simple Menu Planning Tips to learn how to reduce your grocery bill without making everyone in your family miserable. We found a You Tube video that showed us specifically how to fix it. I paid $40 for a part, and didn’t have to call a repairman. 15 – Find a part-time job. Pretty nails and toes?