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According to American legend, the Pilgrims would not have survived their first year if the Wampanoag tribe hadn’t given them food and taught them how to farm.

Crafts are not my thing, especially holiday crafts. If you enjoy wielding a glue gun or stitching up a quilt, you won't understand this, but the thought of

Laundry. I know this topic isn’t sexy or exciting. This is not about saving money but saving time because of exactly that, laundry is neither sexy nor exciting.

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mohandas K. Gandhi For mother's day, my husband and son built

[caption id="attachment_1178" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="image by Rusty O.P."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1181" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="image by Joe-ks"][/caption] If you've ever fixed anything yourself, you are familiar with the unique

[caption id="attachment_1078" align="alignleft" width="590" caption="Aidan\'s Independence Day Decorations"][/caption] What does the recession (ephemistically referred to as "the current financial crisis") have to do with Independence Day? First read this:

[caption id="attachment_1011" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="click to watch the adorable e-card Kim sent to her sister"][/caption] I have a difficult time remembering important events like birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries.

By Carolyn Lengel I grew up frugal—or, as friends put it, “cheap”; my family had the whole reduce-reuse-recycle thing down, or at least the reduce and reuse part (municipal

You can Google “frugal,” but that won’t necessarily lead you to these newsletters (or their companion sites). Here’s to finding frugality in some unexpected places!