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  1. Question and Answer
    I think I am addicted to shopping- I used to do it all the time, and even though I've relocated and had to go through the annoyance of sorting, donating, packing and moving I am still always looking for "stuff" or at least thinking about it. I want to live a simpler life and not be so consumed...
  2. General Chat
    Ok....I have dedicated myself to dealing with my debt and learning to be frugal. I went a few days without shopping or spending money. So....yesterday morning, I wake up and I am TEMPTED with the idea of going to buy breakfast. Now, I am a nightshifter and never get breakfast. I eat dinner at...
  3. Frugal Living
    Ok, so I've been in FV for a while now. I have no debt, I have my utilities at an all time low, I have my grocery bill at an all time low. I do my best to find free entertainment or at least cheap entertainment but I'm still having trouble with spending on things that are wants and not needs...
  4. Frugal Living
    What is an unfrugal temptation that you resisted recently? Mine - I resisted the vending machine candy bar (one of my unfrugal weaknesses!) I was searching for the $ bill and then went :down:- and pulled out my baggie full of generic brand value size pretzels..and am munching to my hearts...
  5. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    I got rid of my account with Disney Movie club today.I love the old animated Disney classics and I think I pretty much have all that I want so I emailed them and cancelled. No more charges for movies I didn't order and then waiting for the return credit on my credit card. Cat
  6. General Chat
    Ok, so I'm going to the biggest sewing Expo in the U.S. Saturday. My friend bought tickets for both of us.. And every vendor of ultimate niftyness in the U.S. will be there.. What should I buy that helps frugality? And what should I avoid because it's just a gimmick.
  7. Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts
    I'm a rubber stamper, and I just got an email with the list of retiring Stampin Up stamps. I've been good so far, I have wayyyyy to many stamps and nowhere to put them or anymore, so I haven't bout any for 2 or 3 months. But these, they're not going to be around anymore... What's that new word...
  8. General Chat
    I am at work ... and smelling so much food right now ... * growling tummy * argh ... now i wish i would have gotten lunch before i left the house... but i had decided on sleep instead. Right now the wind is blowing french fries and steak smell in ... earlier it was Japanese from across the...
  9. Frugal Living
    I'm having friends over for dinner tonight. I went out this morning to pick up the things I need and while I was out I wanted in the worst way to buy a couple mums and a scarecrow and wreath for the front stoop. I just LOVE fall and it's decorations but I just cannot afford it with cash right...
  10. Question and Answer
    Hi everyone! As some of you know, I'm new to frugality. I've been doing fine until lately. Now, all of a sudden, I want to purchase things. I bought some weights and a yoga mat, a magazine, rented 2 movies, went to the movies, went to McD's...all in one week. I feel like a failure now...
  11. Frugal Living
    Instead of browsing the catalogs that come to our house in droves, I've started calling the 800 numbers on the back and asking to be taken off their catalog list. I find that even if I never buy stuff from a certain catalog, it just feeds to spending desire for something similar. My cousin...
  12. Frugal Living
    This isn't as easy as it seems sometimes! http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/consumeraddiction/a/043002.htm
  13. Kitchen Basics
    The classic "batter fried" food is probably Japan's most celebrated example of "agemono" or deep fried food. The goal of good tempura is to achieve a lacy golden effect. A long time ago (about 400+ years back), when Japan was trading with Portuguese and Dutch merchants, tempura was...
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