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Homemade Pet Food

Kelly — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:52:29 +0000

I read an interesting article in the NY Times the other week, on making homemade food for your pets. Have you seen it? The article describes the latest trend in making food for one’s domestic companions, rather than serving them kibble and mystery meat from a can. At first the trend, represented by overly conscious [...]

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It Just Takes a Minute

Kelly — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:50:45 +0000

I was inspired by a fairly traumatic post on Young House Love to tackle a project that I’ve been putting off for a while: creating an inventory of our home contents in case of emergency or another break-in. I don’t know what was different- that I had the camera sitting on the desk recharging, that [...]

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Backing Up Your Information For Nothing

Kelly — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:31:20 +0000

This story starts out, as so many do, with three little words: Shoulda. Coulda. Woulda. When our apartment was broken into almost a year ago my husband started panicking over getting fired. Why? Not because his laptop, which belonged to his job, was stolen, but because he hadn’t taken the time that Friday evening to [...]

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Practicing Patience

Kelly — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:46:34 +0000

This won’t come as any great surprise to those who know me, but I can be a tad, shall we say, impatient, at times. I want something done and I want it done now; I want to do something and I want to do it now. So when it comes to being frugal, one of [...]

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Money Saving Crafts

Kelly — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:00:39 +0000

I love to make things. I don’t think that I’m especially artistic- I’ve never been able to paint or draw. But I really enjoy sewing, doing needlepoint, collage, paper maché and many other ‘crafty’ hobbies. But crafts can be a great way to save money too. For example, after we moved, we had room for [...]

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Staying Cool in The Summer Heat

Kelly — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:49:06 +0000

This post was first published in its original format on June 26, 2008. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, however, I thought that it might be a good time to revisit some frugal ways to stay cool! I’ve used the original post as a starting point, and added some more ideas. Summer is [...]

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Smaller Versus Cheaper

Nicole — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:25:36 +0000

Friends who know me from reading my Breaking Even blog know that for about a year, I lived in a 220 square foot apartment. With my dog. Yes, it was quite cozy. When you live in this kind of situation, you sort of pick your battles as to what you can live without. To solve [...]

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How Much Are You Spending on the Holidays?

Kelly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:39 +0000

The holiday season comes early and hits hard at our house. Starting with my aunt’s birthday on November 15 and ending four months later with my mother’s birthday on February 16, we celebrate almost all the birthdays and wedding anniversaries in our family, plus Thanksgiving, Hannukah and Christmas. This year we’ve decided to scale back [...]

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Making Room for Others

Kelly — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:01:23 +0000

One of the things that I’m enjoying most about my new apartment is the extra space that it gives me for entertaining. Our living room can now hold more than 1 extra person at a time… it’s very exciting! Last Sunday, we had friends over for dinner. Including small children, of whom there were many, [...]

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On Comfort and Comforters

Kelly — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:43:20 +0000

A couple of years ago, my father, stepmother and aunt gave my husband and I a luxurious (expensive), super nice, winter down comforter as a joint present for my birthday, our wedding anniversary and Christmas. It’s THAT nice. What’s really nice about this comforter, however, is that whenever I get into bed during the winter [...]

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