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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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Frugal or just being smug...have you scored a real deal recently?

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Writing with a Fountain Pen

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Healthy Home Cooking for under a dollar a plate

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the most eco and last coffee maker - cowgirl coffee

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Spending more to save money

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toilet paper alternative- wash with water

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Tents as space reducers for heating

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Pallet yurt for simple shed

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I cut 87% off of my electric heat bill

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How to cut the food bill by 80 percent?

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My re-use projects--- and yours as well

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Free and frugal soup

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a thrift store mentality and its irony

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Expedient insulation

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Free Stuff - Look at what I got today.

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Depression Era Cooking Tricks

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Waterfalls: Odd window insulation that's working!

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Permies are "The Joneses"

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natural movement instead of the gym

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The Zero Dollar Christmas Plan

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Minimal diet = deficiencies

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Old Farmer's Almanac Winter weather 2022-2023 prediction

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Stop wasting money by buying whole chicken and learning to break it down and use it all

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What I do with freebie meat scraps...

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Window Insulation: Pearl's designs for layers

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Financial Realities vs Waste

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Dilemma: Thrift Store Waste or Environmentally Friendly New Version?

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frugality and food storage

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Pros and Cons of using woodchips in place of gravel

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The frugal life vs expectations of friends & family

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Pre-mending or strengthening clothes in advance to make them last longer?

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Water Proof Glue

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Saving Money, Feeling better!

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converting old t-shirts into women's panties

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Just what we always wanted!

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Living without money

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Working for money is expensive

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How do you use leftover pickle juice?

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Endless supply of free pallets...

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Dumpster diving

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our grandparents and frugality-the green thing as a way to reduce -

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laundry without soap??

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How to Use Less Data on Satellite Internet--for non-satellite users, too!

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making things last...

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cheap laundry soap recipe

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Low water bathing

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The freegan thread

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getting a little more light out of those candles

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Adding Heating Zones to the House

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Our Free, Compostable Christmas Tree Made from WEEDS!

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Christmas Ya'll

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Problem with vintage dishes

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Lye from Ashes

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brass polish alternatives?

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The Lightbulb Conspiracy: planned obsolescence

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Computer frugality

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Avoiding camping fees

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Gadgets that you don't need -but that save you money to own

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