The Frugal Girl

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Five Frugal (mostly tiny) Things

The Frugal Girl

Another city offers a student deal where you pay $35 and then you can go to basically as many concerts as you want over the next year for $0. You do have to pay $15 for parking in the garage, since it’s in a bigger city, but still, that’s a super good deal. And as it turns out, they do!

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Five Frugal Things | white tees aplenty

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As with many apps, it gives you super awesome deals at first, and then the deal quality goes down a bit. Before I went into Safeway, I opened my app to do a quick scan of the deals and I found a $5/$5 purchase coupon in my account. But sometimes they send good offers, even for older customers like me! Which is how I got my $2.99/gallon

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Five Frugal Things | also, I PASSED

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My CVS often has the 50% more free bottles, which sweetens any deals I have I’m don’t spend a lot of time chasing deals at CVS, but here are my best CVS strategies. Soo, I stopped in, purposely selected a variety that had “50% more free!”, ”, and used all my ExtraBucks to bring my total down to $0.51.

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Five Frugal Things | symphony for $10? Yes, please.

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I got a $77 ticket for $10 I learned that the symphony here offers student tickets for $10, which is a crazy good deal. Last Friday, Zoe was working and I had no plans, so I called the office and asked if they had some seats for that night’s concert. I just had to email over a picture of my student ID and poof!

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Q&A | frugal mental health, “why did you get a cat”?, and phones for kids

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In my opinion , it’s important to make sure that the person is actually a licensed therapist, not just someone who has taken some counseling classes, and this is particularly true if you are dealing with some type of trauma. It just makes me better able to deal with my problems.”

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Thankful Thursday | heating issues

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As it turns out, they were having the young firefighters come in and see this problem… there aren’t a lot of houses with old boilers like mine, and they wanted to give everyone a chance to see how to deal with a situation like this. So, hey, at least these firefighters got to learn something new!

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Scared to paint? Here’s a pep talk!

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And even if you don’t, it’s no big deal! It’s even better if that thing is free. free + in terrible shape = PERFECT That way, it’s very low-stakes! The odds are so good that you will make the item better than it was before. I encourage you to give it a try. ?

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