The Frugal Girl

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Meet a Reader | Maria in Florida

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The goal is to have a zero balance on our mortgage by January 2030. I enjoy Florida mainly in the winter; I’ve been to Disney in January and I thought the weather then was quite lovely. If $1000 was dropped into your lap today, what would you do with it? I would send it directly to our mortgage company for our sweet little home.

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Five Frugal Things | free Starbucks for me!

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I don’t have it back yet (I think they said to expect it to be approved by the end of January?), (I don’t think I’ve said anything about this before, but I got my first two semesters of school totally paid for, so I am quite motivated to continue with the FAFSA/scholarship thing.) but at least I got the ball rolling.

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Thankful Thursday | from the island

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” lol that Zoe and I are both healthy It occurred to me that a January trip could easily be downgraded by some illness. And when Lisey saw it, she said, “How did Chiquita afford that car? Probably with dirty money, from all the crimes she’s committed.” But thankfully, neither of us got sick before our trip.

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Thankful Thursday | no weekends for meeee!

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Mainly it’s because of this: you can never get undressed enough to compensate for July weather, but you CAN bundle up enough to compensate for January weather. for 1,168 miles of walking in 2023 I came very, very close to averaging 100 miles/month, and I am endlessly grateful for a body healthy enough to get outside for all those miles.

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Thankful Thursday | a $0 repair!

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for good health I’m thankful for a baseline of good health, but also I’m grateful that I haven’t been sick with a cold, the flu, or Covid (which I did catch the previous two Januaries!) Soooo, hopefully that means there will be no more furnace drama for a nice, long while. What are you thankful for this week?

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Five Frugal Things | food waste prevention

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If it was summertime, I’d make a smoothie to use these up, but man, I don’t really love drinking a cold smoothie in January/February! Bowl compliments of my Buy Nothing group I stirred about half of the blackberries into my oatmeal yesterday, and I’ll probably use up the rest in a bowl today.

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Thankful Thursday | Last one for 2023

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that I figured out my printer’s paper jam I was trying to print out a little January calendar page and somehow, the paper got jammed! But thanks to the magic of Facetime, we were able to have a quasi face-to-face chat, and that made me happy. from a year ago! And now my printer is working again.

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