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Giving

Helping children give to the less-fortunate at Christmastime

December 7, 2010

Several of you asked about this in a recent Q&A, so I thought it deserved its own post. While Mr. FG and I encourage our children to delight in giving presents to family and friends, we also encourage them to think about giving to people who don’t have as many physical blessings as we do. [...]

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Want to help me help people in Haiti?

July 20, 2010

I have an idea that can work if you need to do some online shopping.  Ebates, a cash-back online shopping portal, is currently running a promotion to inspire all of us Ebates members to send more new people their way.  If we refer 50 people, we get a new iPad or $500. I really haven’t [...]

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Come help me help those in Haiti!

January 15, 2010

Crystal from MoneySavingMom put out a call last night to other bloggers to help her in an effort to raise money for the people in Haiti who are suffering after the earthquake, and I’m joining with her and a bunch of other bloggers.  You can help too. Here’s how it’ll work. 1. See if you [...]

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Grocery Shopping and Menu Plan (plus, the Living Water total!)

January 2, 2010

On Wednesday of this week, I had my most unusual grocery shopping trip ever, because I was wearing a microphone and had a video camera following me (I felt so reality-show-ish!).  I did manage to stay on budget, though, despite the unusual circumstances! Here’s what I bought. and here’s what I spent. Aldi-$64.12 Weis-$35.81 Total-$99.93 [...]

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Where charitable donations and grocery shopping meet

December 5, 2009

On Thursday, I mentioned an idea I was going to implement this month, an idea that would help me come up with some money to donate to Living Water. This is my plan: for the month of December, I’m going to give myself my usual $400 grocery budget, but I’m going to try really hard [...]

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It’s National Thrift Week!

January 19, 2009

As you know, here at The Frugal Girl, it’s thrift week every week. There is(or rather there used to be!) an official Thrift Week, though.  I heard about it on Get Rich Slowly and I thought I’d do my part to spread the word.  Thrift Week is something that was sponsored mainly by the Y.M.C.A [...]

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