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Take Control of Your Money in 2015

Family Balance Sheet

In 2014, the Grocery Budget Challenge encouraged us to keep our grocery spending in line and to be creative with our meal planning so that we do not over-spend. We will be challenging ourselves to resist buying retail and instead choose thrift by borrowing, buying second hand, or making do with what we already have.

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"Potential Accomplishments" and The Natural Magic of List-Making: Creating a Master~List

Frugal Luxuries

need to descale the glass shower doors in master bath using a citric acid solution Continue going through and organizing all my old F rugal Times: Making-Do With Dignity and Frugal Luxuries newsletters along with my collection of vintage ephemera. well as a thorough vacuuming via the wet-dry vac.then spot clean ing.of

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Meet a Reader | Mbmom11, in the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

A blogger I follow ( This Aint The Lyceum ) had linked to it in a newsletter, and I found the title intriguing. He is also thrifty and is much better at budgeting than I. We have a big family, but we live in a small house – we use bunk beds and make do. How long have you been reading The Frugal Girl?