Comments on: Our Frugal Lifestyle http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/ Simple Tips To Enjoy Life Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:26:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tess The Bold Life http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/#comment-1822 Tess The Bold Life Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:59:58 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=362#comment-1822 These are great tips and we've done most of them our entire lives. It's how we raised our four girls and still came out owning 2 homes, having a retirement fund etc. My husband just bought his first brand new car two years ago, he is 58! It was a Prius that gets 50 miles per gallon. Then our kids left home, graduated college and we began spending money on those barnacle things. We came back to our senses last October. I'm a bookaholic that has been going to the library for the last year. I don't do haircuts and we still eat out to much. However we do split meals so expense is cut in half. I think one of the lessons of our economy is to stop being so wasteful. Anyway it's my personal lesson! .-= Tess The Bold Life´s last blog ..<a href="http://theboldlife.com/2009/11/brave-amazing-teenager/" rel="nofollow">One Brave and Amazing Teenager</a> =-. These are great tips and we’ve done most of them our entire lives. It’s how we raised our four girls and still came out owning 2 homes, having a retirement fund etc.

My husband just bought his first brand new car two years ago, he is 58! It was a Prius that gets 50 miles per gallon.

Then our kids left home, graduated college and we began spending money on those barnacle things. We came back to our senses last October.

I’m a bookaholic that has been going to the library for the last year.

I don’t do haircuts and we still eat out to much. However we do split meals so expense is cut in half.

I think one of the lessons of our economy is to stop being so wasteful. Anyway it’s my personal lesson!
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]]> By: Michelle Traudt http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/#comment-1673 Michelle Traudt Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:08:34 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=362#comment-1673 I'm currently doing some of those already. I'd say about 8 of them. But I need to work on the others. Great ideas and tips! I don't know about cutting my kids hair though...they may end up with uneven hair. :) .-= Michelle Traudt´s last blog ..<a href="http://michelletraudt.com/2009/10/08/im-thankful-for-our-kids/" rel="nofollow">I’m Thankful for Our Kids</a> =-. I’m currently doing some of those already. I’d say about 8 of them. But I need to work on the others. Great ideas and tips! I don’t know about cutting my kids hair though…they may end up with uneven hair. :)
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]]> By: Lessons In Frugality http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/#comment-1342 Lessons In Frugality Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:02:27 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=362#comment-1342 [...] have made the transition from relatively spend happy to quite frugal over the past several years. I only wish I had adopted my frugal way years ago! Here are some key [...] [...] have made the transition from relatively spend happy to quite frugal over the past several years. I only wish I had adopted my frugal way years ago! Here are some key [...]

]]> By: Sherri http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/#comment-704 Sherri Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:49:41 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=362#comment-704 @ adam - Well done with the biking that's great! Yea for frugal indeed! When it comes to the TV there is never a *good time* to get rid of it. I think the hardest part is deciding what to do with your time. TV makes that decision for you so it's just easier. But trust me when you give it up you'll have soooo much time on your hands and you'll accomplish so many of the things you were going to get around to "one day..." Here's a post Gwynn did on how we gave up TV you might find it interesting: http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/how-we-almost-gave-up-tv/ @ adam – Well done with the biking that’s great! Yea for frugal indeed! When it comes to the TV there is never a *good time* to get rid of it. I think the hardest part is deciding what to do with your time. TV makes that decision for you so it’s just easier. But trust me when you give it up you’ll have soooo much time on your hands and you’ll accomplish so many of the things you were going to get around to “one day…” Here’s a post Gwynn did on how we gave up TV you might find it interesting: http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/how-we-almost-gave-up-tv/

]]> By: adam | ihappy.me http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/#comment-690 adam | ihappy.me Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:23:51 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=362#comment-690 i think we're in pretty good alignment with this list, sherri. the one monkey on our backs, which we teeter-totter on getting rid of is the TV. i don't know why. like you said, it doesn't add much to our lives, and we know we can live without it. come to think of it, i'm not sure what we're waiting on. :-) an alternate to walking/driving, and something good for those in-between distances is a bike. i bike to work almost every day, and love it and love knowing i'm saving gas, oil, wear & tear on a vehicle, and am not making car payments, either. bike maintenance is easy and cheap, too. and it's a free gym-less exercise routine. yea! for frugal! <abbr><em>adam | ihappy.me’s last blog post..<a href="http://ihappyme.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-haiku-wednesday_15.html" rel="nofollow">happy haiku wednesday</a></abbr></em> i think we’re in pretty good alignment with this list, sherri. the one monkey on our backs, which we teeter-totter on getting rid of is the TV. i don’t know why. like you said, it doesn’t add much to our lives, and we know we can live without it. come to think of it, i’m not sure what we’re waiting on. :-)

an alternate to walking/driving, and something good for those in-between distances is a bike. i bike to work almost every day, and love it and love knowing i’m saving gas, oil, wear & tear on a vehicle, and am not making car payments, either. bike maintenance is easy and cheap, too. and it’s a free gym-less exercise routine.

yea! for frugal!

adam | ihappy.me’s last blog post..happy haiku wednesday

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]]> By: Sherri http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/02/our-frugal-lifestyle/#comment-41 Sherri Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:02:27 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=362#comment-41 Hey at least you're doing something, right? :) These are things we do to help us get a bit further ahead. We found that obtaining higher salaries was just half of the equation, if we spent it all we weren't really getting ahead. So that's when the frugality really kicked in and for us it's helped speed things along financially. Thanks for your comment! Hey at least you’re doing something, right? :) These are things we do to help us get a bit further ahead. We found that obtaining higher salaries was just half of the equation, if we spent it all we weren’t really getting ahead. So that’s when the frugality really kicked in and for us it’s helped speed things along financially. Thanks for your comment!

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