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Composting

Monday Q&A | Recycling vs. Shredding and Rising Gas Prices

February 28, 2011

Every Monday, I answer a few of the questions that my readers send me. If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post, just leave me a comment here or email me (thefrugalgirl [at] gmail [dot] com) and put Q&A in the subject line. I look forward to hearing [...]

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Monday Q&A | Pantry waste, Compost Flies, and Used SLR equipment

August 9, 2010

Every Monday, I answer a few of the questions that my readers send me. If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post, just leave me a comment here or email me (thefrugalgirl [at] gmail [dot] com) and put Q&A in the subject line. I look forward to hearing [...]

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Monday Q&A | Compost Questions, Extravagant Gifts, and Photography

February 1, 2010

Every Monday, I answer a few of the questions that my readers send me. If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post, just leave me a comment here or email me (thefrugalgirl [at] gmail [dot] com) and put Q&A in the subject line.  I look forward to hearing [...]

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My Winter Compost Bucket (plus security, compost style!)

January 26, 2010

alternately titled, “How I Avoid Carrying Compost Out Into My Cold Backyard Every Day” or, “The Lazy Composter”. In the summertime, I don’t really mind taking the compost out every day…I just have to throw a pair of flip-flops on and take a quick trek out to the backyard (well, it’s sort of quick. Our [...]

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Something very exciting happened here in July.

August 6, 2009

Well, it was exciting to me at least. Over a year after I started composting, my first bin was finally ready to use! I haven’t been adding any new compost to that bin for a couple of months, and while there were still some egg shells that hadn’t decomposed (I didn’t learn until more recently [...]

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Local, Organic Buying vs. Frugality

June 18, 2009

This topic has come up several times recently in the comments, and so I thought perhaps devoting a post to it would be a good idea. Ideologically,  I am 100% on board with the idea of buying local, organic food. I think it’s a wonderful thing for both people and the planet. Unfortunately, local, organic [...]

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