Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 26, 2016
I have made a pact with myself that if I don’t already own something that I need, I will either: make do with what I have, find said item at a thrift store, borrow, or forget about it. We do budget for dining out and this year, we will need to be more diligent about staying within that budget. The Girls’ Activities.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Our son was growing, and we knew we wanted to provide him with extracurricular activities that made sense for him — music and sports and scouting. So we put those in the list of priorities as well. Living there would be a different animal altogether and it would take a much higher income to make do.
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Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 11, 2020
We didn’t have enough cash saved to buy a car without a loan and that wasn’t sitting well with me. Also, about the time everything shut down, my coffee machine decided to as well. As soon as life and our business go back to normal, these things will resume, especially the last two items. No car payment = peace of mind.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Instead they had a well, an outhouse, a wood burning stove for heat and another for cooking. Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. Whenever we get into situations which threaten our self-reliance, we will find our freedoms threatened as well.
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 17, 2018
I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. What We Won’t Give Up: My motto has always been “living well on less” and now it will be “living well on (even) less”.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
I like to bake and read, and I spend time chauffeuring kids to activities and games. I’ve been doing it for 28 years now?) we started doing it after a family activity on my days off, and I’ve kept to it even when times were very tight. I’ve been teaching part time for over 25 years. That is priceless.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 1, 2014
That was true for me as well, but I also think that poverty is a very relative concept. In their first home together, built out in the new suburbs (then it was country), Mom endured well water and an outhouse. Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Do you have a funny story about making do?
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