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First Festival of Frugality for 2008

January 1, 2008 By Frugal Babe

The New Year’s  Festival Of Frugality is up at  Moolanomy.   I loved the post on Nature Mom’s Blog about how organic food can be affordable.   I went through just about the same process over the last few years as my husband and I transitioned to about 90% organic food.   We get organic produce delivered to our house, and buy very little meat and milk, which helps keep the total grocery bill reasonable.   And Money and Value’s post about keeping the heat off sounded familiar too – we bought a little space heater for $35 at Wal Mart a few weeks ago.   My husband, who works exclusively at home, keeps that heater in his 100 sq foot home office.   The thermostat for the rest of the house is set at 55 degrees (to keep the pipes from freezing and the plants from dying).   My husband and the cat spend the day in their cozy office, while the other 1250 sq feet of our home require very little energy to stay at 55 degrees.   We do this four days a week, on the days I work at the library.   When I’m home, we turn the heat up to 63 or so.  

Early Retirement Extreme’s post, “Wear a wide brimmed hat and retire extremely early” was great – a perfect summary of how to stretch a dollar, be healthy, and indeed – retire early.  

Happy New Year everybody –   Here’s to a great 2008!

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  1. Pinyo says

    January 1, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    Thank you for sharing the festival with your readers.

    Happy New Year everybody!

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  2. Karla/Grace says

    January 2, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Thanks for pointing me to that article at Nature Mom. I’ve been struggling for a couple of years with the move to more organic food. The struggle has been ALL about the monetary investment. We have a wonderful coop, but it’s only available once a month. We only have one major natural food store with really high prices and other than a very expensive CSA, we don’t have anything else except what we can find at Target. It gets very expensive, very quickly. Anyway – the information was very helpful.

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