http://almostfrugal.com/2008/01/13/money-in-france/ Learning about frugality Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:57:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://almostfrugal.com/2008/01/13/money-in-france/comment-page-1/#comment-2784 You Ask, I Answer Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:35:25 +0000 http://almostfrugal.com/2008/01/13/money-in-france/#comment-2784 [...] Betsy wanted to know about frugal stories from when I first moved here. I don’t really have any. I was an almost starving newlywed when I first got settled in France, and neither of us really had any idea how to handle money. And then the student loans kicked in and it slowly got worst. One of the things that did help was doing a price book of local grocery stores and buying fruits and veggies at the friendly local farmers’ market. But it took a long time to get bitten by the (almost) frugal bug, and I’m still not completely there. Here’s a post I wrote in January 2008 about money in France. [...] [...] Betsy wanted to know about frugal stories from when I first moved here. I don’t really have any. I was an almost starving newlywed when I first got settled in France, and neither of us really had any idea how to handle money. And then the student loans kicked in and it slowly got worst. One of the things that did help was doing a price book of local grocery stores and buying fruits and veggies at the friendly local farmers’ market. But it took a long time to get bitten by the (almost) frugal bug, and I’m still not completely there. Here’s a post I wrote in January 2008 about money in France. [...]

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