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I enjoy your site and am glad I found it. I am retired and live on a budget so appreciate your budget friendly ideas.
All the best.
Sam
I found your site on tiny house.com I started out on my email from there to Facebook to pinterest .eventually I want build or rather have built my own little house with all kinds of storage,& useful things that do double duty
So wonderful to find your site! We are a wayyyyy lower middle class family (extended 😉 of 5 living in our little trailer in the woods! I’m filled with pride to see others in situations of hardship living good lives and being happy! We have big gardens and not much else, but we make the best of it! Thanks for the great tips! I have TONS of thrifty info as well; I’m not much of a social media monkey, but if you ever want to e-mail and share tips, I’m game! You and that little house keep rockin 😉
I really enjoy to read your article, very interesting and inspiring, i love it. thank you so much
Hi, I’ve been successful in finding affordable fabric for sewing projects by going to my local thrift shop on brown bag days. They are held twice a year, at the end of summer and before Christmas. They give you a large brown grocery bag and you pay just $6 plus tax. Fill it to the top (level) with whatever you want. Lol, you should see how tight we women can roll clothing and stuff that bag. Many people buy 5-6 bags at a time. I head for the men’s section and buy the largest men’s clothing I can find. In the past I’ve gotten like new, brand name men’s shirts that are wonderful for my projects. I do feel a bit guilty cutting these items apart, but they’ve been out on the sales floor for a very long time and haven’t sold, so at least I’m putting them to good use. Women’s clothing offers great buttons, beads and trims. I once bought a wedding dress for $5 and cut off all the pearls and other trim to re-use. I saved the satin fabric too. Children’s resale/consignment shops are also a good source for doll clothes. A baby doll can wear a preemie sleeper and the shop here in my town has regular sales with clothing for 50 cents. She gets so many items that she can’t afford to store it all. Kids grow quickly, so many items are in like new condition. I couldn’t make these items for 50 cents! Again, small zippers and cute buttons are abundant on kids clothes. Estate sales sometimes offer bargains, especially if the deceased had a lot and the family just wants it all gone ASAP.
I just love finding bargains!
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I’m so excited to have found this site. Only wish I had it sooner. I love Little House, and often patterned my household from things I’ve learned from the books. I’ve raised 3 children in a simple, make due, waste want not want lifestyle. My youngest is graduating this year and we’ve Never owned a computer or game system. People are shocked to hear this. It’s getting harder to break free from technology these days. I now have 3 grandbabies, although I know they will be surrounded by technology, I hope to over them a cozy place to be “unplugged” and loved.
So look forward to enjoying all the information you offer here.?
That’s amazing. I am trying Tom do the same with my 3 homeschooled kids but it’s actually harder than I thought with grandma and aunties who keep buying too much toys for them. We also need to live very frugal but with our kids surrounded by people who like disposable stuff, it’s quite an effort to constantly remind ourselves that we want to do better. So much easier to just go with the everyone’s flow. Our dream is to have our own land and mobile home we can take anywhere. Save save save is our new year resolution.
Don’t give up the dream of having your own land and mobile home! You must keep working diligently for it everyday and do not let anyone including well meaning relatives and friends discourage or deter that from happening! Never mind their thoughts about it as this is your dream and not theirs !
Good luck to you and you can make it happen with effort( everyday) work , discipline and willpower!
Also persistent effort and fortitude and not quitting because of others and their criticism and comments!keep at it it will work if you do!
I, too struggle with too much “stuff” as gifts, but I am also to blame, sometimes. I encourage gifts of “experiences” that they might not otherwise be able to do, whether it is something to do with that relative or not. Another option is giving the gift of paying for hobbies or lessons that your kids are interested in. Being reminded every time they put on their ice skates or ballet shoes, or soccer cleats, etc. that they’re able to have this opportunity because so & so relative gave that gift is wonderful, in my opinion! I need regular massage because of pain &, although I have been able to find someone with amazing prices (for massages, that is), my dad will often gift me with money towards them.
I’m so excited to have found this site. Your information is great!
I am always looking for new ways to save money and I have found this amazing app called Mercari where you can buy items for home and family at excellent prices and if you use the code JGUPCA when signing up you will get $2.00 free to get started.. im so glad I found this app and already have started saving
what a wonderful inspirational site..being frugal and creative..
I am now 64 and retired and have certainly been where you are. For 2 years, I lived in a camper in the woods with my newborn son while my husband worked out of state. We finally were able to build a very small house, but it took us years to complete it. (The mountain lion at the screen-only window, by my son’s crib, was scary.) When our daughter came along, she slept in the living room for almost 3 years, until we could add on to the house. The house was still pretty small, but it worked.
Now we are older and our kids are grown. We’ve moved to a new property in the woods, high up in the mountains, to start over and build yet, another home. (Yes! at our age!) We live off of the land as much as possible, grow and forage for food, cut our own timber, saw our own lumber,enjoy our spring water and live completely off the grid. Life is GOOD and we are younger than our years. Our kids plan to join us on the property soon and build their own, “little houses.”
I’d say, things worked out alright for us and it will for you too. Sometimes the worst hardships turn out to be the silver linings in your life and really define who you are. Good luck in your venture.
~ C
Hello, dear Merissa. Congrats for your site. You are sharing valuable information. I see people in the net commenting that they go frugal living for some or many reasons. I have my own reason to share with those people. I and my wife, Maria Tereza, used to be very active (work, family, church, school, friends, relatives). We had what was necessary for that life stile. But now we are old and tired, and with little energy to spend. Going frugal is an option, and we like it.
Let´s keep going.
Thanks for you site.
P.S. We live in southeast of Brazil.
Hi, I enjoy your site have been reading it and enjoying your recipes. I am 68 years old
on a fixed income going frugal is the best thing that I have done. I lived the frugal life
all my younger years. So getting back to it was not a problem. I am trying canning from your recipes. It took a flood that took all I had of 40+ years in one house
for me to realize I didn’t need all that material stuff at my age. Your site is a blessing
for me. Keep up the good work. Bless you
Hi thanks for the information, I am recently retired and find them a great budget help. I’m still addicted to credit cards but working hard to get rid of them. I should have started this life 33 years ago I would have been much happier. I still can not get my husband on board but working on it. I try to stock up by bulk buying and have started making things from scratch and I’m learning to sew. I wish I had listened more to my grandparents growing up I could have learned a lot. Keep it up.
Hi all, just a quick comment on prepping. A few years back hubby decided we needed to buy some freeze dried foods. You get a tub of assorted meals in mylar packets. We didn’t have the option to grow or store much at that time. We are 89 and 73, we need to start eating this stuff before we die! As it turns out, we are finding some of these prepared foods are not to our liking. I am going through and using the ones we like. The rest can be donated as they are still ok to eat, just not our taste. I should have sampled them before we bought as much as we did. However one thing I am glad I bought was the freeze dried vegetables. It is amazing how fresh they taste. Since we are not as physically able to garden anymore or can, this is the next best thing for us. Just thought I would share another option.
Honeyvillefarms.com is where we bought the freeze dried vegetables. A word of caution, The vegetables are good for 25 years. NOT the freeze dried eggs. Check that before buying. Happy prepping!
Thank you so much for the Rhubarb Recipe! Any chance your neighbor stole my recipe? I lost it years ago, have missed it soo much. I did searches before but never found anything close to it. Something told me to try again. Thank you for taking the time to get this and many useful ideas out there.