Green and Frugal

A reusable shopping bag that I love

August 24, 2011

I’ve been bringing my own cloth bags to the grocery store for quite some time now, but whenever I made a quick stop somewhere (like at the drugstore or a craft store), I invariably forgot to bring a bag with me. This past spring, though, I ordered an Earth Day special from Hip Mountain Mama, [...]

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Why I don’t want a tiny house

April 28, 2011

Have you heard of tiny houses? They’re extremely teensy homes on wheels. If you want to see what one is like inside, check out this slideshow. These homes are sort of a reaction to the McMansion communities that populate many suburbs in America…instead of going extreme on the big end of things, people who own [...]

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Ok, people! Help me out! What do I do with clementine boxes?

March 6, 2011

I’ve got 4 of these boxes, and I’m not quite sure what to do with them. From what I can tell, they can’t be recycled here, but it seems sort of wrong to just throw away a wooden box. If I had a fireplace, I’d just use the boxes as kindling, but alas, my house [...]

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Some bottled water thoughts (and maybe some rants)

March 1, 2011

Ok, definitely some rants. On Sunday afternoon, Mr. FG and I watched Tapped, a documentary about bottled water. I have never been a fan of bottled water, and so I expected to be in agreement with the message of the documentary. I did not expect to be so completely and utterly disgusted by the production [...]

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Handmade/Thrifted Christmas gifts at Chez Frugal Girl

December 31, 2010

I’ve been promising for days to show you some of the homemade and thrifted gifts we gave this year, and today, I’m actually going to follow through! For Zoe’s Build-A-Bear (er, Build-a-Dog, as Zoe likes to point out), Chloe, I crocheted a scarf. Sometimes at night, Mr. FG reads out loud to me, and I [...]

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How to fix a hole-y shirt without really fixing it

November 16, 2010

Today’s post is going to be a quickie (but hopefully it’ll be helpful!). I apologize in advance for the many color variations in the following photos. Who knew green was so hard to photograph?? It confuses my camera mightily. So, Lisey had this long-sleeved hand-me-down shirt, and somehow, a hole happened in the sleeve area. [...]