New Member Questionnaire.

**Mike Brad** · 12-13-2011, 07:11 PM

Found this site while just looking around, I am married ,have many grandchildren ,Enjoy outdoor hobbies in summer and winter, fishing,4 wheeling,snowmobiling,and when I too tired for any of that I search around the web looking for anything I feel has a valuable contribution to my life.I am a frugal person and so is my wife and we get along great trying to out do each others great deals ! so I am eager to hear from all the frugal people on this site and will add my 2 cents whenever I can ! hope to talk to all ! Mike

**Debbie-cat** · 12-13-2011, 11:31 PM

Hi and welcome Mike! Jump right in, there are alot of great people here.

**Sara Noel** · 12-14-2011, 09:27 AM

to frugal village.

**Backwoodsgirl** · 01-07-2012, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Sara Noel

New to the site or haven't made your first post yet? Here's an icebreaker list of questions for you to use to post an intro. Please start a new thread in the welcome forum when you post your intro. You can reply to this thread too, but you are more likely to have your post seen if it's in a new and separate thread.

How did you hear about frugal village? looked up frugal and found it on search engine

What interests you here? Homesteading, Gardening, Survival, Sewing, Crafts, Saving Money

What will you contribute? Hopefully some personal experience and friendship

Do you know any other members here? No

How many kids? Ages? All three grown 25, 26, 27

Tell us about yourself. Widowed three years ago and moved to FL to be with a friend.

Do you own any pets? No, unless you count the two chickens given to me last week by the neighbor.

Occupation? Retired

Married or single? Widowed

Interests and hobbies? Sewing, Quilting, Canning, Baking, Homesteading, Herbal Remedies, Gardening, Edible Landscaping, raising livestock...

Backwoodsgirl

**Pixalated** · 01-10-2012, 03:37 PM

How did you hear about frugal village? I think I found it through someone's blog post. I signed up a while ago and forgot about it. Saw it again somewhere and here I am!

What interests you here? I am interested in finding friends who are frugal too and maybe can motivate me to accomplish my goals.

What will you contribute? I hope I will contribute some good advice and support for others

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Do you know any other members here? Nope. Hope to meet them though!

How many kids? Ages? 3 kids. DD -8, DS -5, DD -2

Tell us about yourself. My name is Rachael. I used to be a teacher and will go back to that some day. I work from home now, have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, am studying photography, and chase my three kids around.

Do you own any pets? Yes one sweet dog and one spoiled cat.

Occupation? See above

Married or single? Married, we will celebrate our 15th anniversary this year!

Interests and hobbies? Photography, working out, gardening

**Uniwolf** · 01-10-2012, 03:50 PM

Wow

welcome to all 3 of you from NW Arkansas

**princess_belle** · 01-15-2012, 12:38 PM

How did you hear about frugal village? I stumbled upon it looking for a laundry soap recipe!

What interests you here? The fact I have always been looking for ways to save money, do things cheaper....

What will you contribute? I have a lot of great ideas and no one to share them with..finally a community where my talents of figuring out how to it free or on the real cheap will come into handy..YAY!

Do you know any other members here? Not yet, but, I am hoping I will soon!

How many kids? Ages? 3 kids..2 boys ages 8 and 11..and my little girl 5

Tell us about yourself. I am a creative person who loves sewing, gardening, and finding frugal ways to take care of my family

Do you own any pets? Yes, 2 cats Donkey and Boots

Occupation? Mom wife and CEO of the house hold

Married or single? In between - long term commited no rings involved

Interests and hobbies? sewing, gardening, DYI projects

**LittleRedWren** · 01-15-2012, 01:35 PM

How did you hear about frugal village? Googling for tips on getting out of debt.

What interests you here? Everything! I love the challenges, love reading what others are working on; it helps keep me motivated.

What will you contribute? Hopefully encouragement, and will share anything I think might help someone. I enjoy message boards more than things like facebook, because I like being able to talk, read, learn, and get real about subjects that I love!

Do you know any other members here? No.

How many kids? Ages? Three kids, ages 8, 10, and 15.

Tell us about yourself. Always into something new, which ends up costing money. We homeschool, and our current goal is to hit the road for a while with the kids. That's going to take some major belt-tightening and dejunking before it can happen.

Do you own any pets? They own us - Currently five cats, one dog, three horses, and a hamster. Oh, and two turtles. And a fish. Am I forgetting anyone?

Occupation? Stay-at-home mom. I also have two direct sales businesses, which is funny if you know me!

Married or single? Married for 16 years, been together for 20.

Interests and hobbies? Too many, always. Writing, or NOT writing, is usually at the top of the list, and then everything from crochet to beekeeping. Love books, seeds, and languages, and as long as I'm learning something, I'm happy.

**aljen01** · 02-01-2012, 09:42 PM

How did you hear about frugal village: From a member on the Smart Canucks forum.

What interests you here? Saving money, learning better ways to handle money and having someone to listen and help.

What will you contribute? As much as I can, I'm learning right now but I'll be happy to help whenever and wherever I can.

Do you know any other members here? Just the one person from my other forum....that I know of anyways!

How many kids? Ages? 2 kids, Carter (boy) is 5 and Ainsley (girl) is 4.5 months

Tell us about yourself. I am a stay at home mom, my son is in Kindergarten and we are busy with his school and friends. My husband works away from home so is only home 1 week out of every month which means I do it all as best I can.

Do you own any pets? No

Occupation? Stay at home mom

Married or single? Married

Interests and hobbies? I have a ton, photography, reading, holidays, tv, movies, facebook and especially my kids and their activities.

**JoeyK** · 02-03-2012, 01:13 PM

How did you hear about frugal village? search engine

What interests you here? all the ideas and a chance to talk to other frugal people and maybe find someone in my area

Do you know any other members here? no

Tell us about yourself. My husband & I live in western NY. We are both interested in frugal living. I bought him a book about being a "Prepper" and he was hooked. Our whole back yard is a vegetable garden. We walk around the neighborhood the night before trash day and take coupon inserts from the recycle bins. Our friends think we are crazy.

Do you own any pets? 2 cats

Occupation? 2 part time jobs - Preschool teacher and administrative assistant.

Married or single? married 32 years

Interests and hobbies? Baking, cooking, reading, geocaching, vegetable gardening, jewelry making, scrapbooking, crocheting, singing, volunteer work

I would love to know if there are any other Western NYers here.

**Sara Noel** · 02-03-2012, 02:00 PM

Welcome to FV. I'm originally from the Rochester area.

**LNsGirl** · 02-07-2012, 09:08 PM

How did you hear about frugal village?
I found out by using Google to find it. Searching for frugal living sites.

What interests you here?
I am interested in canning, freezing and dehydrating to have a well stocked pantry in case of a disaster.

What will you contribute?
Recipes I have learned and all frugal tips. Gardening in Texas. Canning recipes that I have done. And any other knowledge that I have learned.

Do you know any other members here?
Not yet, that I know of, but I hope to meet some like minded people here.

How many kids? Ages?
We have 5 children. Ages 43, 42, 40, 38, 38. We are a blended family. We also have 15 grandchildren.

Tell us about yourself.
I am a 60 year old that loves to put up food and to help people. I also knit, crochet, sew, do embroider work and love my computer.

Do you own any pets?
Ye, one spoiled rotten 9 year old Fat Chihuahua named Tippie Sue.

Occupation?
Stay at home wife. Now retired.

Married or single?
Married to my dear husband for 22 years and looking forward to more and more!

Interests and hobbies?
See above about myself. LOL

I love life and love my Lord.

**DayTek** · 02-09-2012, 10:55 AM

How did you hear about frugal village?
I yahoo'd some info about being a stay-at-home wife and stumbled upon this site and it's threads discussing that.

What interests you here?
Money in general is an interest of mine (but not an obession). Any new ways I can learn to save money or pay down debt I am open to learning about.

What will you contribute?
Whatever I can - Maybe tips on how to save or good recipes as I enjoy cooking.

Do you know any other members here?
Not that I know of.

How many kids? Ages?
None. I am childfree by choice.

Tell us about yourself.
I'm a 26 year old woman. Reahead

. Canadian. I love sports and hanging out with my husband. Right now, I work 32 hours a week for a bank. Works well for my lifestyle, but am not completely sure I want to grow with the company - I don't really know what I want to do career wise, but have been serving our church more and really enjoying it. Considering leaving the work force or working a lot less to become a stay-at-home wife and serve the church more. We'll see were it all goes!

Do you own any pets?
I own a handsome little grey cat named Tobias who is 5 years old.

Occupation?
Bank Teller

Married or single?
Married for 3 years to my highschool sweetheart!

Interests and hobbies?
Hockey, golfing, cooking, baking, reading, being with friends and family, going to church.

**joyousjasmin** · 02-11-2012, 02:27 PM

How did you hear about frugal village? I did a search for snickerdoodles and a thread popped up.

What interests you here? My family, MOPS, church, my amazon business

Do you know any other members here? no

How many kids? Ages?
one 2yo boy with one on the way on April 3rd

Tell us about yourself.
I am Jasmin. I am 24(!), christian and trying to be less materialistic. I am a recovering jeans and purse addict.

Do you own any pets?
One dog. We aren't really sure what he is. I thinking beagle and terrier cross. He is sweet but quite nervous.

Occupation?
Work part time as an office manager, own a little amazon store.

Married or single?
Married for 3.5 years.

**Faithful** · 02-15-2012, 03:07 PM

Hi everyone
I am a homesteader from Ontario.
I am a widow
I have 4 children and 4 grandchildren
I am attempting to live off of my land since my husband passed away 10 months ago.
I found this site by googling homesteading.
I can, dehydrate, garden, crochet and have had chickens, goats, horses, and cows on and off since we bought our 3acres 15 years ago.
I love to cook in my fireplace.